Author: Jan Sillemann

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NAV TechDays 2019

ForNAV is a platinum sponsor and exhibitor at NAV TechDays 2019. NAV TechDays 2019 will take place November 21 and 22, 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can meet the ForNAV team both days throughout the conference. Thursday, November 21 from 13:10 – 13:25 we will show you how easy you can do reports in Microsoft

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AutoFormatExpr and AutoFormatType

Since NAV 2015 and later, using AutoFormatExpr and AutoFormatType on report columns has not produced the right results. This is because the functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central calling AutoFormatTranslate has been partly broken. Because of this, ForNAV now supports calling AutoFormatTranslate and using it to call Format directly by

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Data Matrix Barcodes

Usually, Data Matrix barcodes use character values of up to 128. However, it is possible to create Data Matrix barcodes with values in the full range of 0 to 255. This article describes how. First, you must change the barcode compaction mode to Binary.   When the barcode control is in binary mode, you can

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List of Barcode types supported by the ForNAV Designer

Codabar Code11 Code128 Code39 Code39Extended Code93 Code93Extended CodeMSI DataBar DataMatrix DataMatrixGS1 EAN128 EAN13 EAN8 GS1-128 Industrial2of5 IntelligentMail Interleaved2of5 IFT14 Matrix2of5 PDF417 PostNet QRCode UPCA UPCE0 UPCE1 UPCSupplemental2 UPCSupplemental5

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Announcing ForNAV 4.1

We are happy to announce general availability of ForNAV 4.1 (4.1.0.1696).   This new version of ForNAV includes support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central – 2019 Spring Release.   ForNAV Standard Reports No changes. An update to the ForNAV Standard Reports is expected in late June/early July 2019   ForNAV Converter In ForNAV 4.1,

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Cross reference information

To support Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 Business Central cross-reference tools, such as the Advanced Object Manager and Statical Prism, you can now create cross-reference information in ForNAV for fields used in the ForNAV report layout. In the Converter, you simply select the Add cross reference information in code checkbox:   This results in a new

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Uploading vs. changing the Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central license

The ForNAV Designer tries to get the report object source code directly from Dynamics NAV/Business Central. It uses the finsql.exe to export the object in text format. This step requires a NAV/Business Central developer license on the NAV/Business Central server. Because the finsql.exe uses the license on the server, it is not enough that you

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Days of Knowledge 2019 – thank you!

Great meeting you all at Days of Knowledge 2019 in Odense, Denmark – looking forward to Days of Knowledge 2020. Meanwhile, please enjoy this video produced by the organization committee. Thank you all!

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OData, Web Services, and Page 7702 not in the customer license

When running on a standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central license, you might have the issue that you cannot enable OData and you are not able to run the Web Service required by ForNAV, because you do not have permission to execute the page 7702 (Fields). The error message is: “Could

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