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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

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

Updated Nov. 6, 2024: Microsoft has informed us that this is solved now! Exceeding the maximum number of allowed documents This problem occurs only in Business Central Cloud version 24.4 or higher When running a ForNAV or Word report on Business Central Cloud, the following error will occur if the first dataitem in a report

We have often spoken about how ForNAV makes report editing easier: power users and functional consultants can easily edit reports with ForNAV. However, what happens when things go wrong? In Business Central, you can make many functional settings based on reports, you can change report selections, add report layouts, and with ForNAV you can even

If a string used in a dataset column contains a control character, the following error will occur: If you click Share Details and then select Copy error details the XML document containing the error will be copied to the clipboard. After that, you need to open an editor that can show control characters (for example,

If you need to access files through the ForNAV Direct Print and File Service from inside a ForNAV report layout, you can use the ForNAV Local File Temporary table. To access a local file from inside a ForNAV layout, you need to add a record, or a dataitem, for the ForNAV Local File table. You

In Business Central, you can add text or comment lines for a single sales or purchase document line. These comment lines are attached to the original sales line by the Attached to Line No. field. Take for instance the following shipment lines. One of these items is shipped, the other is not. In one scenario,

The printer name ‘<redacted>’ already exists This article will help you resolve an issue in Business Central when you see the following error message: EN: The printer name ‘<redacted>’ already exists. Please change the name of the printer and try again. DE: Der Druckername ‘<redacted>’ ist bereits vorhanden. Ändern Sie den Namen des Druckers. Versuchen

In Business Central, you can create retention policies. Retention policies allow you to automatically delete all the records in a table that match specified criteria. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/admin-data-retention-policies Not every table can be used in a retention policy. In the 7.3.0.10 release of ForNAV, we have made the following tables available for retention policies: 6188493 “ForNAV DirPrt

This article is written for Business Central 2023 wave 2 (23) and later, and the ForNAV extensions version 7.3.0.0. and later. In 2022, Microsoft released new pages for report layout administration, most notably the Report Layouts page. This new feature had its own tables that ran alongside the existing Custom Report Layouts for some time.