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Bullzip features in ForNAV reports
When you use the Bullzip PDF Printer on the service tier together with ForNAV reports then you can use a lot of the Bullzip features. ForNAV comes with a built in license for Bullzip. This means that you don’t need a Bullzip license to use it with ForNAV. The extra features can be used when…
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PDF/A-1B documents for archiving
When you plan to preserve your PDF documents for a long time, you should create them using the archiving format PDF/A-1. This format makes sure that the PDF contains all the information needed to print it on another system at a later time. Information about colors and fonts are embedded in the document. Using the…
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Watermarks in PDF documents
This article is no longer relevant and has been replaced by this article: Adding different watermarks to each page
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OData and firewalls
When you are trying to access an OData web service in Dynamics NAV, you may run into firewall issues. Firewalls can be configured in many different ways. Sometimes you need to access the web service using a different URL than the one used by Dynamics NAV by default. In the service tier configuration file and…
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Add-in is missing in NAV Development Environment
If you are missing the add-in in C/SIDE, then you get a message like this: It is telling you that you have a variable that is referencing a DotNet component, which it cannot find in your local add-in folder. If it is in the folder it may have the wrong version number. Normally, the Reports…
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Deployment
The Reports ForNAV product consists of four components. Report designer. Report converter. Server add-in. Client add-in. When you run the installer, you can choose which components you wish to install. Developers typically install all components on their system. Most developers have a local service tier running on a test database. If you are deploying the…
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Error “A call to ForNav.Report.Pre failed with this message: Settings to access printer ‘Bullzip PDF Printer’ are not valid.”
You installation of Bullzip PDF Printer on the NAV server is either missing or outdated. Please install the latest version of Bullzip PDF Printer on the NAV server and try again.
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Compilation fails with “Could not load type ‘ForNav.Report.’ForNav.Reports, Version=x.x.x.x, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=5284c1af2984feb0”.”
The compiler is unable the load the ForNAV assembly used in the AL code. You need to install the client add-in using the installer before you can compile the report object.
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Installer Command Line Switches
The setup program supports a wide range of command line switches. These switches can be used to run the installation without user interaction or as a completely silent installation. When the setup is run in silent mode then you need a way to specify the selections, you want to make. This is controlled through a…
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Troubleshooting the NAV web service
Sometimes you can experience problems accessing the NAV OData web service for the Fields page 7702. This page will try to help you troubleshoot the configuration and use of the OData web service. Special Characters in Company Names The OData web service can have problems when you use special characters in the company name. The…