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This is a knowledgebase article on totals and what to do when variable names or field names used in totals are changed In Classic, totals were controlled by the TotalsFields/GroupTotalFields properties and the C/AL function, CREATETOTALS. However, these were removed in NAV2013 and do not exist anymore in standard NAV. Because of this, these properties

If you have the Reports ForNAV Converter or the Reports ForNAV Designer installed on your client, just open one of them and choose either Help or Settings and About:   If you are running the reports only (and do not have our tools installed on any client) – you have to go to the service

If you see an error message where the NAV server or client cannot create an instance of the object, then you may have a security problem. This problem is not the same as when it cannot load the object. When NAV loads the add-in it only needs read access to the DLL file. However, when

 In NAV 2017, the layout of the Custom Report Layout table (9650) has changed, which means that if you want to upgrade your ForNAV reports to NAV 2017, you have to upgrade to ForNAV version 1.3.0.1006 or newer. If you have previously converted your reports from “classic” (that is, NAV 2009 and earlier versions) to

If you have reports using COM automation or have code depending on standard NAV Office integration, such as the Excel buffer, you must upgrade your C/AL code to adopt the new interface(s). In most cases, you will get a compile error when you try to compile your converted reports – but in some cases, you

Since Dynamics NAV version 2015 the server can send add-ins to the Role Tailored Client when they are needed on the client. This is a great feature, which helps add-in developers deploy the solution without much effort from the developer or the end user. However, this automatic deployment does not send updated DLL files to

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