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JavaScript does not have a built-in function to calculate the ISO week number from a day. Therefore, to get the week number, in the ForNAV Designer, you must paste the following code into the OnPreReport trigger:   Date.prototype.getWeek = function() {   var date = new Date(this.getTime());   date.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);   // Thursday

This article is relevant for updates up to and including BC21. For version BC22 and later, you need to upgrade to ForNAV Universal Code version For upgrade to ForNAV Universal Code version, please read this article: Upgrade ForNAV OnPrem from DLL to Universal Code —– Updating ForNAV in on-premise (OnPrem) situations is a five-step process:

Moving your ForNAV reports from on premise (OnPrem) (C/Side or extensions) to cloud is a matter of conversion. On premise ForNAV reports use a dll to render; cloud ForNAV reports use a web service, therefore you must convert your reports. This conversion is a three-step process: Upgrade to the latest version of the ForNAV Designer

With version 5.4, you can now do everything in JavaScript that you can do in AL, and much more. And the Field List in the Designer now makes it easier to use properties and functions on the report and dataitem object.   For example: CurrReport.<dataitemid>.Pdf.Append(<Rec.BlobField>) –  appends a PDF from a blob field to the

This article applies to on-premise Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central installations running the role tailored client. The Design option is shown on the request page of ForNAV reports, if the ForNAV Designer is installed on the client machine and you are a SUPER user in Business Central. This makes it relatively easy to

If you are running a ForNAV report based on version 5.3 or earlier in Business Central 16 or newer, you might run into the following error when you save your report as an Excel document: A transaction must be started before changes can be made to the database. Microsoft Excel export problems are typically caused

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

This article is no longer relevant and has been replaced by this article: Sending debug reports to ForNAV