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This article describes how to create a new email body layout for a custom report. This is only relevant in an On-Premise installation with the DLL version of ForNAV. For any Universal Code installation (cloud or On Premise), this article is not relevant because in a Universal Code installation you can use any Custom Report

When you create a new Business Central report in an extension, you get two files: an AL file, which contains the code, and a layout file, which contains the layout information of the report. By default, ForNAV stores all the layout files for new and converted reports in the Layouts folder of your extension. In

Use HTML content to create links in email bodies. This article walks you through the process of making a nice-looking report footer with some company information. Creating footers for PDF documents and email body text requires different techniques, which is also covered. This is an example of a footer text: This footer has the following

By default, the jobs in the print queue are processed in sequence. The local print service downloads one job at a time and prints it before getting the next one. If this approach is causing long waits in your way of printing, then there are a couple of things you can do. Add another print

When working with custom layouts in Business Central, you sometimes end up in a situation where the system cannot find the layout it is looking for. In cases like this, the report is run with an empty layout. Empty layouts make the report execution fail. Why is my layout empty? Empty layouts can happen for

When saving more than one RDLC or Word report within the code path of saving a ForNAV report, the client sometimes hangs. The root cause is the Business Central Reporting Service, which sometime hangs when the second report is rendered. To get around this issue, you must disable the Reporting Service in the Business Central Administration

When you are running ForNAV Direct Print and your ForNAV license is changed (for example, the period is extended or additional users are added), the license information is automatically updated – this happens once every day. If you need to update the license information any sooner than that (typically, if you see the Trial… watermark

With the release of ForNAV 6.3.0.8, it is now possible to add item tracking lines (serial and lot numbers) to several standard ForNAV reports. You can add item tracking lines to the following tables: Sales Line Purchase Line Sales Invoice Line Sales Cr.Memo Line Purch. Inv. Line Purch. Cr. Memo Line Sales Shipment Line Return

We have removed the Design button from the request page on ForNAV reports because it was confusing to many end-users. To design a report, click the relevant report list (Standard Reports, My Reports, or App Reports:   In the report list, click Report, and then click Design:

ForNAV reports support the following types of images OnPrem and in the SaaS cloud solution: PDF (vectorized images) Bitmap (BMP, DIB, RLE) Jpeg (JPG, JPEG) Gif (GIF) Tiff (TIF, TIFF) Png (PNG) Image resolution should be as low as possible but enough to ensure a good quality output. If the resolution is too high, the