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Upgrading to a new ForNAV version

This will show you how to upgrade your existing ForNAV reports to run on a newer ForNAV version. If you receive a new version for ForNAV, you often want your existing ForNAV reports to run on the new version. This can be done in two different ways depending on how many of your reports you

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Which version of ForNAV am I using?

Since version 2 of Reports ForNAV, you can have multiple versions of the product installed and in use at the same time. This means that your reports can use different versions of the ForNAV add-in. If you want to know which version you are using for a specific report, you can look in a couple

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ForNAV Add-in Version 2.0

This article explains how NAV works with the ForNAV add-in. With version 2.0 of ForNAV, we have changed the way that we version the add-in and this affects how NAV loads, deploys, and caches it. The DLL File A NAV add-in can consist of multiple files. In our case, we have built everything into a

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How to determine which version of ForNAV you are running

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

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Reconverting reports in ForNAV

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

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DLL Version Problems

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

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A call to ForNav.Report.MethodName failed

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

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Reports ForNAV 1.3 available

We are happy to announce general availability of Reports ForNAV 1.3. The main features are related to the Reports ForNAV Designer: Basic and advanced options for editing ForNAV reports Enhanced integration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV Dataset including columns can be edited in the ForNAV Designer or in C/SIDE Preview function with live data Creation of

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Create an email body layout for a custom report

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

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Installing the Service Tier Add-in

To run the ForNAV reports, you must have the ForNAV DLL on your NAV service tier. The service tier is the machine that runs the NAV server process that users connect to. On a service tier machine, the NAV service is typically installed in your program files folder. The add-in folder is a subdirectory to

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