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This Knowledge Base article is relevant for ForNAV version 4.1.0.1718 and higher. To set up the source for table information, we have added an assist edit button to the ForNAV Converter and the ForNAV Designer setup dialogs:   In the dialog, you can choose the connection type from the drop-down menu and when you have

When you upgrade your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Tenant to Business Central 2019 release Wave 2, you might experience that a report saves the wrong design settings, which prevents you from designing ForNAV reports. To resolve this issue, go to Report Settings in Business Central: And then select the reports that you want to

Since NAV 2015 and later, using AutoFormatExpr and AutoFormatType on report columns has not produced the right results. This is because the functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central calling AutoFormatTranslate has been partly broken. Because of this, ForNAV now supports calling AutoFormatTranslate and using it to call Format directly by

Usually, Data Matrix barcodes use character values of up to 128. However, it is possible to create Data Matrix barcodes with values in the full range of 0 to 255. This article describes how. First, you must change the barcode compaction mode to Binary.   When the barcode control is in binary mode, you can

If your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud solution hosted by Microsoft is authenticated via an unmanaged Azure Active Directory (AAD), then you must change the status to managed. Otherwise, your ForNAV Designer cannot authenticate and get access to the report and fields information in your Business Central Cloud. Most full Business Central Cloud installations

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To support Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Dynamics 365 Business Central cross-reference tools, such as the Advanced Object Manager and Statical Prism, you can now create cross-reference information in ForNAV for fields used in the ForNAV report layout. In the Converter, you simply select the Add cross reference information in code checkbox:   This results in a new

The ForNAV Designer tries to get the report object source code directly from Dynamics NAV/Business Central. It uses the finsql.exe to export the object in text format. This step requires a NAV/Business Central developer license on the NAV/Business Central server. Because the finsql.exe uses the license on the server, it is not enough that you

When running on a standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central license, you might have the issue that you cannot enable OData and you are not able to run the Web Service required by ForNAV, because you do not have permission to execute the page 7702 (Fields). The error message is: “Could

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a backslash sometimes represents a line break in the text. This works really well unless you actually want to display the backslash character instead of a line break! With ForNAV, you can show the backslash in a text box if the multiline property is set to no. If the