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Exceeding the maximum number of allowed documents

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

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Announcing ForNAV 7.4

We are happy to announce the general availability of ForNAV 7.4. The main highlights of ForNAV 7.4 include: Support for BC 25 Direct Print and File Service: improved performance and scalability Enhancements to the Report Pack including improved built-in/custom layout capabilities and more Support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (BC25)

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Meet us at Directions EMEA 2024

ForNAV is a sponsor and exhibitor at Directions EMEA 2024 Directions EMEA 2024 will take place November 6 to 8 in Vienna, Austria. Join your peers there to get ready for the latest Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, network, and learn from other NAV/BC people and from Microsoft. ForNAV will have a session during the conference

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ForNAV Health Checks

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

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The following exception was encountered when processing XML data

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,

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Local File Temporary table

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

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Summarize extended text lines

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,

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The printer name redacted already exists

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

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Add ForNAV tables in retention policies

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

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Business Central report layouts explained

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.

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