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When you add ForNAV reports to your AL project, there are a couple of things you must set up. If you are starting a new project, the Designer can create a new project folder for you. Click Extensions on the toolbar and select New Extension Project. The Designer asks you which version of Business Central

This Knowledge Base article is relevant for ForNAV Report Pack 5.4 and higher.   In the ForNAV Report Pack 5.4 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud and Business Central OnPrem version 16 (and higher), ForNAV now supports archiving when a report is previewed, downloaded in Word/HTML/PDF, or printed.   To use this feature, you

In the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack version 5.3, we’ve significantly improved the management of customized layouts. Custom report layouts All ForNAV reports have a built-in layout. This is the default layout that ForNAV has designed for you. There are two ways of customizing the built-in layout: by cloning, and by creating a customized layout. A

When Business Central reports are generated in Microsoft Cloud, the rendering is done via a ForNAV service endpoint. The endpoint receives the report layout and the data needed to produce the finished report. Normally, the data for the report is not stored anywhere. When the report is created, the data is gone. In a debugging

Sometimes you might run into an error message that looks like this: A call to ForNav.Report.Pre failed with this message: Error in OnPreReport step ‘1423, Check printer selection’ Inner exception 1: You cannot print to \\servername\printername. Please check that you have permission to use it and if the printer is valid. Even though the printer

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From version 5.2.0.1921 and later, there is support for hyperlinks in reports. This means that for text boxes and table cells, you can set a hyperlink property that will enable the recipient of the report to click the link and open the URL associated with the hyperlink. You set the hyperlink property from JavaScript in

To add new fields to existing tables and pages faster, ForNAV 5.2 now supports the creation of Table extensions and Page extensions without having to write code in Visual Studio Code. A huge part of this is being able to figure out which Table extensions, Page Extensions, and Field numbers are available – and ForNAV

This Knowledge Base article is relevant for ForNAV version 5.1.0.1850 and higher. When using JavaScript in the ForNAV Designer, it is sometimes necessary to write conditions based on the value of option fields in Business Central/Dynamics NAV. Because of this, in the Field List in the ForNAV Designer, we have introduced a new set of

This Knowledge Base article is relevant for ForNAV version 5.1.0.1850 and higher. Sometimes, you might want to change the captions shown in reports to fulfill special customer demands or adhere to industry specific terms (for example, client instead of customer). In C/SIDE, you could do this easily by changing CaptionML strings as needed. However, in