Empty custom report layout
When working with custom layouts in Business Central, you sometimes end up in a situation where the system cannot find the layout it is looking for. In cases like this, the report is run with an empty...
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Parallel print job processing
By default, the jobs in the print queue are processed in sequence. The local print service downloads one job at a time and prints it before getting the next one. If this approach is causing long waits...
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Footers with company information
Use HTML content to create links in email bodies. This article walks you through the process of making a nice-looking report footer with some company information. Creating footers for PDF documents and...
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Change the folder of the extension layout files
When you create a new Business Central report in an extension, you get two files: an AL file, which contains the code, and a layout file, which contains the layout information of the report. By...
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Add Assembly Lines to any Business Central report
With the release of ForNAV 7.0, it is now possible to add Assembly Lines (Bill of Material or BOM) to several standard ForNAV reports. Note: Adding temporary Data Items in this way only works when you...
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Create an email body layout for a custom report
This article describes how to create a new email body layout for a custom report. This is only relevant in an On-Premise installation with the DLL version of ForNAV. For any Universal Code installation...
View ArticleOverride printer selection with an event
In situations where the normal use of the Printer Selection page is not enough to select the right printer for the current user, there is an event to help you override the printer selection. It is a...
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Creating a Microsoft Excel report with ForNAV
With ForNAV 7.0, you can create a custom Excel report, which has several benefits. You can: Create the report without writing AL code – it only requires knowledge about the Business Central data...
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Microsoft Excel reports in the ForNAV Report Pack
The ForNAV Report Pack 7.0 contains a set of out-of-the-box Excel reports to enable exporting aggregated data from the Business Central Ledger tables. Each report can be run from their respective...
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Set up VAT clauses for your ForNAV reports
The VAT clauses in ForNAV work just like for any Business Central report. To set up VAT clauses, you must first create a new VAT clause. If necessary, you can set up translations for the VAT clauses as...
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Move, modify, insert, and remove data items, sections, and controls in the...
Under the Field List in the left pane of the Designer, you can find the Report Explorer: You use the Report Explorer to edit a report using a tree view, in the following ways: You can move around...
View ArticleAnnouncing ForNAV 7.0
We are happy to announce general availability of ForNAV 7.0 (7.0.0.2350). The main features in ForNAV 7.0 include: Support for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 21 Microsoft Excel reporting, fully...
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Get line discounts on the Pro Forma Invoice
By default, the line discounts are not displayed on the ForNAV Pro Forma Invoice. This is by design; the underlying code clears the values and recalculates the line amounts. If you want to use the...
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FIK code
Updated December 2022 In some cases, customers still want to have a FIK code on their invoices. To make this possible, ForNAV has a built-in function string, CurrReport.FIK(CardType: Number, Number:...
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Current Append/Prepend PDF
Sometimes, adding the same PDFs to each document in a report is not sufficient and you must apply different PDFs, depending on the data (for example, Language). To be able to add the set of PDFs needed...
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Getting the Shipment numbers from the posted sales invoice
Sometimes, you might want to print sales shipment information on a posted sales invoices. Because this is a one-to-many relationship – one sales invoice might be linked to many sales shipments and vice...
View ArticleFormatting dates and numbers in JavaScript expressions
When using dates and numbers in JavaScript expressions, you often need formatting to get the desired result. The CurrReport.DotNetFormat function is helpful here, because it uses the .net format...
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ForNAV Report Service
Today, running ForNAV OnPrem depends on a DLL, which has become the de facto way of integrating with Dynamics NAV and Business Central. However, after the move from C/SIDE to extensions, widespread use...
View ArticleHidden ForNAV Direct Print features
In a support case today, a partner wrote that Business Central Print does not support Duplex, based on information from this article: OnAfterDocumentPrintReady Event – Business Central | Microsoft...
View ArticleMigration from Custom Report Layouts to Report Layouts
With Business Central 20, Microsoft introduced a new custom report layout subsystem with a new table layout, which works in parallel with the current custom layout subsystem. Eventually, Microsoft will...
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