Category: Knowledge Base

Hyperlinks in an email message body

You can add a hyperlink to your email message body in Business Central, using a ForNAV email layout. Dynamic content from the database can be used in the link name or URL. Here is an example of an order tracking link shown in the email editor in the Business Central web client: This link was

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Add prepayment invoice information to any Business Central report

With the release of ForNAV 7.3.0.10 (August 2024) it is now possible to add prepayment invoice information to any ForNAV report. Adding prepayment lines works for both the Sales Header and the Sales Invoice Header base DataItems. When you add prepayment invoice information on a sales order report ForNAV will get any prepayment invoices for

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Setting up the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack

The easiest way to setup ForNAV Customizable Report Pack is to run “ForNAV Setup” from the Assisted Setup page. If you have more than one company you need to run setup for each company Step 1: Setup payment note and Legal Conditions Step 2: Setup VAT and Watermarks Step 4: Change report selection so Business

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Change the language automatically on document reports

To set the language automatically on document reports, in the Header Data Item, set the Set Language Field property to the field containing the language code. This means that, when creating a new data item, the language is changed automatically if the record has a field with relation to the language table.

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Using the Direct Print UI

The user interface for Direct Print can be run from the command line to automate the import and deletion of connected environments. The following command line parameters are supported: Myenvironment.fornavprintconfig – Configuration file with information about which environment to import or delete. /SILENT – No dialogs are shown during the operation. /REMOVE – Remove the

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Permalinks

The following will give you a list of permanent links for your build and test scripts.   The latest installer of the ForNAV components (ForNAV Toolbox): https://www.fornav.com/products/rep/downloads/?version=latest   The latest version of the Universal Code Report Pack for on-premises (OnPrem): https://www.fornav.com/products/rep/runtime/?bcversion=latest   A specific version of the Universal Code Report Pack for on-premises (OnPrem): https://www.fornav.com/products/rep/runtime/?bcversion=23.0

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Setting the default language and format region for a report

Normally, the language and formatting of decimal numbers and dates on a report are controlled by the individual user settings in Business Central, or by changing the language in AL-code using CurrReport.Language. However, in Business Central 23, Microsoft has added a new page, the Report Limits and Settings page, which can force the language and

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KB Text splitter

There are places in Business Central where you can write long pieces of text. One of these is the Work Description field on sales documents. When this text gets too long, ForNAV will normally cut it off at the end of a page. If you want to display the whole text, then it needs to

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HTML Splitter

Long HTML texts have been a problem with Business Central reporting for a while. HTML is designed to be used on webpages and emails and these don’t have page splits. Report documents do, however, therefore we need to break the HTML off in a logical place, so we can continue the text on the next

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ForNAV document labels

The ForNAV Customizable Report pack comes with several label reports, some more complex than others. A subset of these labels are the document labels: Sales Shipment Label Production Label Sales Order Label Purchase Receipt Label These reports print a label for each line on the document. They are designed to be easy to use and

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