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With the new addition of the Report Service, you also need to install it when you want to run ForNAV in a Dockerized Business Central installation. To do this you: Build your Business Central container but open port 8080 as well. Copy the ForNAV installer and the universal code extension files Install the ForNAV Report

Sometimes users will get the following error message when trying to run a report: Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture—neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’. The system cannot find the file specified. The error occurs for users who use the DLL version of ForNAV and it happens because Microsoft has stopped supporting .net framework DLLs from

With the release of ForNAV 7.x.x.x, you can now add assembly lines (Bill of Material or BOM) to several standard ForNAV reports. Adding assembly lines works for the following tables: “Sales Line” “Sales Invoice Line” “Sales Shipment Line” To add assembly lines to a ForNAV report, you must edit the report and add the AssemblyLine

Direct Print consists of three ways of sending print jobs directly to a printer in Business Central. They are named Server Print, Service Print, and Client Print. Server Print Server Print is only supported in on-premise environments. Here, the Business Central service tier communicates directly with the printer. This requires that the printer is connected

Add a repeater on your report In some cases, it is necessary to add a repeater to your Business Central reports. For instance, if you want to print one label for each item of quantity on your Sales Order. We have created the Repeater Line temporary table for this reason.   Usage scenario 1 –

In the ForNAV Designer, you can add new data items to a layout without modifying the underlying AL-code. This has the benefit of easy deployment and maintenance, because the changes only exist in custom layout, which is data and not code. Data items require temporary tables to run and custom AL-logic to fill up the

This article describes upgrading ForNAV on-premise from DLL to Universal Code. Universal code extensions are extensions that are optimized to run on cloud and don’t use DLLs, the local file system, and other features that are only accessible for on-premise extensions. PLEASE NOTE! You need to upgrade ForNAV to Universal Code before upgrading to BC22.

The preferred way to control the paper tray used when printing from Business Central is to use the paper source setting on a direct printer definition. In the list of ForNAV direct printers, you can select the Printer Specific paper source and then choose from the list of available paper sources for the printer: The

Read how to Add request page variables to a report as a prerequisite to this article Sometimes you might want to set a dynamic filter on a JavaScript record in order to get a specific record. With the ForNAV Designer is it possible to do this when editing an AL-object from Business Central Cloud or

You can use the report property Request Page Variables to add variables to the report’s request page. The value of the variables can later be used in JavaScript expressions to control the layout of the report. You can use this property when editing AL-object reports in your own extensions. If you want to add request