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When working with custom layouts in Business Central, you sometimes end up in a situation where the system cannot find the layout it is looking for. In cases like this, the report is run with an empty layout. Empty layouts make the report execution fail. Why is my layout empty? Empty layouts can happen for

When saving more than one RDLC or Word report within the code path of saving a ForNAV report, the client sometimes hangs. The root cause is the Business Central Reporting Service, which sometime hangs when the second report is rendered. To get around this issue, you must disable the Reporting Service in the Business Central Administration

When you are running ForNAV Direct Print and your ForNAV license is changed (for example, the period is extended or additional users are added), the license information is automatically updated – this happens once every day. If you need to update the license information any sooner than that (typically, if you see the Trial… watermark

With the release of ForNAV 6.3.0.8, it is now possible to add item tracking lines (serial and lot numbers) to several standard ForNAV reports. You can add item tracking lines to the following tables: Sales Line Purchase Line Sales Invoice Line Sales Cr.Memo Line Purch. Inv. Line Purch. Cr. Memo Line Sales Shipment Line Return

We have removed the Design button from the request page on ForNAV reports because it was confusing to many end-users. To design a report, click the relevant report list (Standard Reports, My Reports, or App Reports:   In the report list, click Report, and then click Design:

ForNAV reports support the following types of images OnPrem and in the SaaS cloud solution: PDF (vectorized images) Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE) Jpeg (JPG, JPEG) Gif (GIF) Tiff (TIF, TIFF) Png (PNG) Image resolution should be as low as possible but enough to ensure a good quality output. If the resolution is too high, the

Adding editable fields and checkboxes to a PDF In some scenarios, you might want to create PDFs with fields, so that the receiver of the PDF can insert a value and return the PDF to the sender.     To do this in ForNAV, you must set the Pdf field property in the textbox control

In ForNAV, you can add a different watermark per page using JavaScript. The syntax for this is: CurrReport.AddWatermark(<pageno>,<blobfield>) where pageno is interpreted as 0 = all, or 1… = page number. The following steps describe how to add different watermarks to follow-up pages: Add the watermark files to the ForNAV File Storage table. Add the

A customer ForNAV report project is often developed using a sandbox and when the reports are ready the result must be deployed to a production system.   To make this as easy as possible, the ForNAV Setup page has an Export/Import feature.   To export, in the ForNAV Setup page, click Backup, Export:   The

This article is only relevant if you are running ForNAV Customizable Report Pack version 6.3.0.7 or later – or ForNAV 6.3.0.2289 or later. When printing to a Zebra label or receipt printer, it is often advantageous to use the ZPL language to print instead of using the normal Windows driver. The benefits include faster printing,