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Controlling the layout syntax in AL-code
With the depreciation of the “WordLayout” syntax in AL, FORNAV is migrating to use the new “rendering” layout syntax. This means that, moving forward, the syntax is changed from, for example: To the new rendering syntax, for example: In this process, the FORNAV Layout format will also be moved to use the layout type “Custom”,…
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FORNAV moves to the layout type “Custom”
With the Customizable Report Pack version 8.0, FORNAV moves from using the layout type “Word” to using the layout type “Custom”. This supports the transition from the previous layout to the new Custom layout subsystem in Business Central. When customers using Business Central 25 or higher upgrade to the Customizable Report Pack version 8.0: This…
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Grant AAD permissions – FORNAV Designer
The first time you connect the FORNAV Designer to your Business Central Azure Active Directory (AAD), your AAD Administrator has to grant access. Permissions requested. This application is not published by Microsoft or your organization. This app would like to: Sign in and read user profile, Access as the signed-in user, Access Dynamics 365 Business…
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Overriding the standard FORNAV document archiving
The FORNAV Customizable Report Pack comes with a built-in archiving feature. This feature automatically archives any FORNAV report that was used, and stores the output and metadata in the FORNAV Archive. Some FORNAV users don’t want to store these archived documents in the Business Central database but would rather use an external database like the…
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Setting up FORNAV Peppol and Peppol Plus
To set up FORNAV Peppol and Peppol Plus, you need to open the ForNAV Peppol Setup page. Authorize To be able to send and receive documents from the Peppol network, you first need to allow your Business Central installation to call out to the FORNAV Peppol Service and accept incoming calls from the FORNAV Peppol…
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Disable ZUGFeRD when creating a PDF
When the Customizable Report Pack is set up to create ZUGFeRD compliant invoice and credit memo PDFs, the default behavior is that all documents will be ZUGFeRD compliant. However, in some cases, you might want to send a normal PDF without the electronic ZUGFeRD document. To do this, you need to subscribe to the “OnDocument2InvoiceDescriptor”…
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Sales Service Commitment Data
Add Microsoft Subscription Billing “Sales Service Commitment” data to your sales documents If you use the new Subscription Billing module in Business Central, you might want to add the “Sales Service Commitment” data to your sales documents. We have created a special temporary table to help you get this data on your documents in the…
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Set up retention policies for FORNAV tables
There are a few tables in the FORNAV Report Pack that can grow quite fast. For these tables, you can set up the standard Business Central retention policies: To set up a retention policy, simply open the Retention Policy page and add the desired table with a policy. You can learn more here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-data-retention-policies
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Set number of copies in a FORNAV report
FORNAV has a great tool for setting the number of copies in a report. Instead of adding a CopyLoop data item, you can simply set the number of copies with a function call. There are a few steps to add this code. First, you need to create a global variable to hold the number of…
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Mapping from Business Central documents to ZUGFeRD and XRechnung
FORNAV out of the box contains mappings from Business Central documents to ZUGFeRD and XRechnung, which covers populating the mandatory fields in the standard defined by KoSIT (ForNAV Support for ZUGFeRD-installation guide-Final.pdf). However, in some cases you might want to add information that is not mandatory. To do this, you can modify the default mapping…