Announcing FORNAV Customizable Report Pack 8.2.0.17

We are pleased to announce the release of FORNAV Report Pack 8.2.0.17, introducing new capabilities for text and email templates, report layouts, ZUGFeRD e-invoicing, and document handling, along with a number of fixes and improvements.

Text and email templates

Text and email templates have been enhanced with new formatting options, template management capabilities, language improvements, and additional email scenarios.

New formatting control for numbers, dates, and times in text and email templates

Merge fields now support format strings for numbers, amounts, dates, and times. Ready-made formatting presets are available in the template editor, and currency amounts automatically use the document’s currency symbol or code. Existing templates continue to work as before when no format is specified.
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New template status

Text and email templates now include a Template Status field, with the values Draft, Pending Approval, Approved, and Retired. Only approved templates are used when generating documents and emails. New templates start with the status Draft.

New “temporary” switch for related tables

Related tables used in text and email templates now support a Temporary option. When enabled, FORNAV creates an empty in-memory record instead of reading the related table from the database. The record is populated by FORNAV’s standard temporary table logic or by a partner extension, making it possible to populate templates with values that don’t exist as stored records.

New font family and size selection

The text editor toolbar now includes dedicated font family and font size selectors with a curated, email/print-safe list:

• Fonts: Arial, Calibri, Courier New, Georgia, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, and Verdana. Additional fonts can be added by partners.
• Sizes: 8–20 pt

Additional automatic email scenarios

We have added support for the following automatic email scenarios:

• FORNAV Sales Shipment
• FORNAV Return Receipt (including POS return receipts)

The existing Master Template scenario has been renamed FORNAV Master Template.

Rich text editor improvements

The built-in rich text editor has been upgraded with stability and rendering improvements, including improved table editing. The editor also includes clearer and more consistent save actions and updated icons throughout the interface.

Smarter language selection

The new Inherit Language Code option lets you choose whether templates are matched using the current user’s session language or the source record’s language. If no language is defined on the source record, FORNAV falls back to the company’s Default Language Code, which is also used for number and date formatting when no format is specified.
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New table and field captions use FORNAV Language translations

When a template inserts a table or field caption, FORNAV now looks for a matching translation in the FORNAV Language worksheet, falling back to the standard Business Central caption when no translation is available. This allows you to customize caption wording in templates and emails for each language without modifying the underlying .xlf translation files.

Report layouts

New report layout status and obsolete flag

Report layouts now support the same approval workflow as templates, with the statuses Draft, Pending Approval, Approved, and Retired. Only approved layouts can be activated, and layouts can also be marked as obsolete to prevent future activation.

Health check

New health check for unsupported report layout file types

A new Unsupported MIME type Health Check verifies that imported Word and Excel layouts use the correct file type. If an incorrect file type is detected, it reports the issue and offers an autofix.
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New health check for stale Report Selection entries

A new health check, Check stale report selection usage, detects Report Selection and Report Selection Warehouse entries whose Usage enum value is no longer installed (for example, after an extension has been removed). These entries are now flagged as Unknown Usage.

ZUGFeRD/E-Invoicing

ZUGFeRD e-document data is now built in memory

The internal architecture used to generate ZUGFeRD and Peppol e-documents has been updated. Intermediate document data is now created and processed in memory through the new FORNAV eDocument Factory, instead of being written to database buffer tables during document generation.
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Learn more: <link to kb article: ZUGFeRD e-document data is now built in memory>

Documents

New Warehouse Picking List report

A new Warehouse Picking List report has been added under Reports & Analysis. The report includes a Sum up Lines option that combines picking lines for the same item and bin across multiple source documents.

New item tracking (serial/lot) support for assembly orders

Assembly order lines can now be used as a source for printing serial and lot number information, matching the functionality already available for sales, purchase, transfer, and warehouse documents.

Additional fixes

• Improved handling of special and non-Latin characters in the email preview.
• Fixed email scenario filtering to ensure the correct template is selected.
• Fixed statement emails using the wrong source table.
• Fixed handling of non-breaking spaces in email subjects.
• The Clear Formatting action now preserves merge fields and custom hyperlinks.
• Fixed the Statement report when no selected customers contain data.
• Fixed Company Name assignment for new report layout selections.
• Fixed backup and restore of report layout selections.
• Fixed company information when importing layouts via Source Control.
• Fixed an issue affecting Word report layouts.
• Fixed unintended editing of the rich text preview.
• Removed an obsolete API page that could conflict with Business Central’s Dataverse virtual table catalogue.
• Fixed report captions appearing in the wrong language when a report’s language differed from the user’s session language.
• Corrected several German (DE) translations.
• Fixed response data loading on the File Queue and Package Queue pages.
• Fixed VAT/tax category codes for zero-amount lines with a non-zero VAT percentage.
• Fixed e-invoice generation when no VAT Posting Setup exists for a combination used on the document.
• Fixed reverse-charge VAT handling for trade allowance/charge (line discounts) on sales invoices and credit notes.
• Fixed the contact name being used as a fallback when the sales contact is blank.
• Fixed VAT basis and tax amount calculations on sales invoices and credit notes to avoid rounding discrepancies.
• Fixed a crash during backup export when a Report Selection or Report Selection Warehouse record has a Usage enum value that is not installed (not present in the base enum).
• Fixed an issue where ZUGFeRD e-document generation could fail due to an internal codeunit binding error.

You can see the full list of changes to the FORNAV Report Pack here: www.fornav.com/version-history-report-pack/

You can download FORNAV Customizable Report Pack 8.2.0.17 at www.fornav.com/download  or on Microsoft AppSource.

To learn more about the new and existing features in FORNAV, please take a look at our Coffee Breaks (www.fornav.com/coffeebreak), Knowledge Base articles (www.fornav.com/category/knowledge-base/), or check the FORNAV Direct Print and File Service documentation (https://docs.fornav.com).

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