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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

ForNAV stores data about customers and contacts to be able to invoice and provide support to customers. This information is stored in Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV in a Microsoft Azure environment. ForNAV employees only have access to this information as required to perform their daily tasks. Customers can, at any time, request

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

To run the ForNAV reports, you must have the ForNAV DLL on your NAV service tier. The service tier is the machine that runs the NAV server process that users connect to. On a service tier machine, the NAV service is typically installed in your program files folder. The add-in folder is a subdirectory to

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

When Microsoft released the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update in late 2017, the ForNAV Designer began to freeze occasionally when using the property window. The freeze typically happened when using properties with a drop-down value selector. A fix for this problem was introduced in Reports ForNAV version 3.0.0.1335. Keywords: fornav designer, freeze, hangs, crash  

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

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

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 ;   }  

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