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This article is relevant for ForNAV 6.0.0.2064 and newer versions. The target audience for this article is ForNAV customers who are connecting to a Business Central service tier running on a server hosted by Companial (formerly 1ClickFactory/1Click). ForNAV and Companial (formerly 1ClickFactory) are working together to make it as easy as possible to use the

This article is relevant for ForNAV installations OnPrem or private cloud. If you are running ForNAV for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud/SaaS, please read this article: https://www.fornav.com/knowledge-base/license-validation-cloud/. You might find yourself in a situation where you have a ForNAV license installed but you continue to see the Trial message on your reports. There are a few

In Microsoft Word, doing anything other than simple totaling – such as adding fields, data items or data from related tables – requires considerable development work, for example, you have to have different columns for different formatting because using Word in Business Central does not allow for macros or scripting. Maybe you’ve found it impossible

When developing on Business Central, you might assume that your data and extensions are safe from being deleted, and it is very easy to forget to take backups, especially on sandboxes where there is no customer critical data.   However, your extensions or customer layouts can easily be deleted by mistake or automatically, for example:

This Knowledge Base article is relevant for ForNAV Designer version 5.5 and higher.   Until now, it has required some coding in JavaScript to format pairs of captions/values and to hide the caption if the value is blank.   For example, in the ForNAV report pack, the standard footer looked like the following: [ CompanyInformation.PhoneNo 

We have extended the JavaScript Record functionality so that most database operations can be done without writing JavaScript code.   To change or add a JavaScript Record in a report, in the Property Grid, in the Records row, click the assist edit button (…).   In the Collection Editor, you can now add or change

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

Updating ForNAV in on-premise (OnPrem) situations is a five-step process: Download the latest version of ForNAV from https://www.fornav.com/download/ Install ForNAV on the Designer computers. Install ForNAV on all service tiers. Upgrade the report pack extension (optional). Upgrade the custom ForNAV reports. 1. Download You can download the latest version of ForNAV from https://www.fornav.com/download/. This download

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