Author: Jan Sillemann

What happens if a customer decides not to renew their yearly enhancement of ForNAV?

If the customer has a ForNAV perpetual license, they will no longer be eligible for any new versions of ForNAV, or support on their existing version, nor to purchase any additional users or features to the license. They can continue to use the current ForNAV version they have; however, we no longer guarantee that their

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Working with ForNAV reports in the Custom Report Layouts window

This Knowledge Base article is relevant when using Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central and C/SIDE development environment only. To take full advantage of the ForNAV Converter and the ForNAV Designer, you must have a Microsoft Dynamics NAV developer license – either the “Application Builder” or the “Solution Developer”. This is due to restrictions in Microsoft licensing

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Directions ASIA 2018

This year ForNAV is once again a Gold sponsor and exhibitor at Directions ASIA 2018. Directions ASIA 2018 takes place on March 15 and 16 in Bangkok, Thailand. Join the Community of Dynamics SMB Focused Partners, network, and learn from other NAV people and from Microsoft. ForNAV will have two sessions during the conference and

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Announcing Reports ForNAV 3.1

We are happy to announce general availability of ForNAV 3.1, a significant update to ForNAV 3.0. With this new version of ForNAV, we have support for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018, and support for Windows 10 update 1709 Fall Creator Edition.   Updated standard reports Extended Fields Web Service The ForNAV Extended Fields Web Service “FieldsEx”

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Using Device Fonts

Label printers or virtual printers (Fax, document capture, etc.) sometimes need text printed out with a special font that is not a real font, in order to control the printer. These fonts are called device fonts. To set a device font in a control in the ForNAV Designer: Add the statement CurrControl.DeviceFont = “<device font

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Paper Trays, Paper Bins, Paper Sources

The paper tray selection (also called the paper bin or the paper source) in ForNAV reports can be controlled with the following function call: C/AL: ReportForNav.PrinterSettings. PaperSource(<TrayNo>,<PageNo>); JavaScript: CurrReport.PrinterSettings. PaperSource(<TrayNo>,<PageNo>);     With the special cases: PageNo = 0: Default PageNo = -1: Last page     You can also still set up the paper

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Print Logos on Document Reports

The default for printing the logo on ForNAV document reports is to only print the logo when printing to PDF or doing a preview To always print the logo, you must change the PrintLogo function on the OnPreReport JavaScript event from: function PrintLogo() {   if (CurrReport.PrinterSettings.PrintTo==’PDF’) {     return true ;   }  

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Partnership with newly established ForNAV Deutschland GmbH strengthens ForNAV’s presence in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

To better support our increasing partner community in the German-speaking countries, we have made a partnership with Jennifer Singleton to establish ForNAV Deutschland GmbH. Jennifer is already well-known in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner community in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ForNAV Deutschland will help local partners like you achieve greater success with the Reports ForNAV

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NAV TechDays 2017

ForNAV is a platinum sponsor and exhibitor at NAV TechDays 2017. NAV TechDays 2017 will take place November 16 and 17, 2017 in Antwerp, Belgium. You can meet the ForNAV team both days throughout the conference.

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New functions on Dataitem tables

string GetCaption() – returns the caption of the table int GetOptionValue(string ExternalFieldName) – returns the value of an option as integer string GetFilter(string ExternalFieldName) – returns a field filter string GetFilters() – returns the table filter CalcFields(ExternalFieldName1[,ExternalFieldName2,..]) – calculates the value of calc fields on a record SetAutoCalcFields(ExternalFieldName1[,ExternalFieldName2,..]) – autocals the value of calc fields

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