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With some new versions of ForNAV, it is either required or recommended that you reconvert your reports. This is a very simple process that only takes a few minutes. You export all ForNAV reports from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (or 2013/2015) in a txt-file. To help you select the ForNAV reports, you can apply a

If you get a message telling you that no printers are installed, then it is most likely a permission issue. When you preview reports or save them as PDF the reports are run on the service tier. The service tier is configured to run in a specific user context. If this user does not have

Reports ForNAV uses the add-in feature on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This feature enables you to add functionality to your NAV installation via DLL files. The add-in feature in NAV supports DLL files on both the client and the server. Since NAV 2015 the server can automatically send required DLL files from the server to the

After upgrading the ForNAV DLL, you may run into an error message similar to this one: A call to ForNav.Report.[method name] failed with this message: The type of one or more arguments does not match the method’s parameter type. The best way to resolve this type of error is to follow the steps described in

The designer has three different ways of saving your layout changes. Save Custom Layout in NAV You can use this option if you launched the designer when running a custom layout. This will only save the layout to the NAV database for the current report. None of the dataitems or the report code will be

A ForNAV license comes in the form of an MSI package. This package is digitally signed by ForNAV. The license is installed on the NAV service tier. You install it just like any other program. When the MSI package is run, the Windows Installer will add the license to the computer’s registry. This is where

If you are on version 4.0.0.1613 or newer, you should look here: Troubleshooting Excel export This article outlines what you can do to collect information about debugging. When you get an error during export to Excel, you can collect a temporary file that will help our developers determine the reason behind the error. The temporary

The image controls in reports have a reference to an image file. In classic the reports are processed on the client computer and therefore the file path must point to a file on the local computer. With ForNAV the report is run on the server. This change means that the image file must be on

When the designer saves a report, it needs access to table information from the NAV database where the report object is stored. It will use either the OData web service or a text file containing all the exported tables from NAV. The designer can read information about where to get this information in two different