Author: Jan Sillemann

How licensing works in ForNAV OnPrem

You can download ForNAV for free here: www.fornav.com/download This version has full functionality for both converting and designing reports, but will print a watermark saying “Reports ForNAV Trial Version ” on all reports. This means you can try converting and designing reports without having to acquire a ForNAV license. When you want to remove the

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NAV TechDays 2018

ForNAV is a platinum sponsor and exhibitor at NAV TechDays 2018. NAV TechDays 2018 will take place November 22 and 23, 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can meet the ForNAV team both days throughout the conference. Thursday, November 22 from 13:10 – 13:25 we will have a short presentation of our new solution for Microsoft

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Not enough storage is available

In situations when you are printing both RDLC reports and ForNAV reports, the following message can occur under heavy load: “A call to ForNav.Report failed with this message: Not enough storage is available to process this command / The operation completed successfully” and the service tier must be restated to be able to print ForNAV

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Dynamic control of color and font in text boxes

You can use the OnPrint text box property to control the formatting and color of text dynamically, using JavaScript.   In the following example, if the line amount is negative, the forecolor is set to red and bold is set to true.  

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Changing watermark based on the page number

This article is no longer relevant and has been replaced by this article: Adding different watermarks to each page

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Announcing Reports ForNAV 3.2

We are happy to announce general availability of ForNAV 3.2 (3.2.0.1492). This new version of ForNAV includes support for HTML and (Rich Text Format) RTF; an option to compare two versions of a ForNAV report; and, in particular for the US market, we now have a very easy-to-work-with check report. New standard reports Check report

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Intelligent word wrapping (soft hyphens)

ForNAV now supports intelligent word wrapping (soft hyphens) of captions and date recognition Most of the standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV reports are developed using English captions that generally contain a short single word, which means that there is often a problem with word wrapping captions in other languages, such as German, where the words are

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Comparing two version of a ForNAV report

The ForNAV cmdlet (https://www.fornav.com/knowledge-base/powershell-cmdlet/) has been extended to support Diff and Patch of the ForNAV report layout To support this, the cmdlet has been extended with three new parameters: Diff – Path to the destination for the diff json file. Patch – Path to a json file containing the diffs that will be applied to

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HTML and Rich Text Format in Dynamics NAV Reports

Using Reports ForNAV, you can add HTML and Rich Text Format (RTF) content to your reports. This means that you can write HTML and RTF directly in the Designer, or you can use content stored in your NAV database.   Editing HTML in the Designer You can add HTML to your reports by using the

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Reports ForNAV will fully support Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Last year, at Directions US in Orlando, FL, we showcased our solution for the Dynamics 365 online solution. With Microsoft’s recent launch of Dynamics 365 Business Central, we are happy to let you know that we are currently testing our reporting solution for Business Central, and we plan to release it later this year. We

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