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Uploading vs. changing the Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central license

The ForNAV Designer tries to get the report object source code directly from Dynamics NAV/Business Central. It uses the finsql.exe to export the object in text format. This step requires a NAV/Business Central developer license on the NAV/Business Central server. Because the finsql.exe uses the license on the server, it is not enough that you

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Days of Knowledge 2019 – thank you!

Great meeting you all at Days of Knowledge 2019 in Odense, Denmark – looking forward to Days of Knowledge 2020. Meanwhile, please enjoy this video produced by the organization committee. Thank you all!

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OData, Web Services, and Page 7702 not in the customer license

When running on a standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central license, you might have the issue that you cannot enable OData and you are not able to run the Web Service required by ForNAV, because you do not have permission to execute the page 7702 (Fields). The error message is: “Could

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Backslashes and line breaks

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a backslash sometimes represents a line break in the text. This works really well unless you actually want to display the backslash character instead of a line break! With ForNAV, you can show the backslash in a text box if the multiline property is set to no. If the

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Characters are shown as square boxes

Some output types, such as PDF or Microsoft Word can sometimes show characters as square boxes or not at all. The reason for this is typically that you are using a font that does not contain the characters that you are trying to display. Especially Asian languages use characters that are unknown to most Windows

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Troubleshooting Excel export

If you experience problems exporting your report to Excel, starting from version 4.0.0.1613, you can run ForNAV in debug mode and send the debug files to ForNAV Support for troubleshooting. To enable the debug mode: In the registry database on the service tier machine, under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ForNAV\Reports ForNAV, add a value named DebugMode

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Announcing ForNAV on Microsoft AppSource

We are happy to announce general availability of the ForNAV Customizable Report Pack for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud available on Microsoft AppSource. Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud? Looking for an attractive set of reports that you can deploy in minutes and that are easy to modify? ForNAV Standard Reports makes life

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Announcing ForNAV 4.0

We are happy to announce general availability of ForNAV 4.0 (4.0.0.1596). This new version of ForNAV includes support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises and private cloud, including support for both txt/objects and al/extensions. It also contains a major enhancement to the ForNAV Converter, enabling it to convert not just reports from txt/objects to

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PowerShell CmdLet2

In case you want to automate the conversion of Classic or RDLC reports or reconversion of ForNAV reports you might want to use the ForNAV Powershell commandlet “Invoke-ReportsForNavConvert”, which has the same capabilities as the ForNAV converter – but without the user interface Instead input is given as parameters: Parameter Description Default TableDefinitions <path |

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Updated End User License Agreement (EULA)

We have updated our End User License Agreement (EULA), mainly to reflect our new offering based on a cloud service for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The new EULA takes effect from ForNAV version 4.0 (4.0.0.1596) and for newer versions. You can find the EULA here: www.fornav.com/documents/EULA.pdf A German translation is also available here: https://www.fornav.com/documents/ENLV.pdf

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