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How to add a different watermark for follow-up pages

In ForNAV, you can add a different watermark per page using JavaScript. The syntax for this is: CurrReport.AddWatermark(<pageno>,<blobfield>) where pageno is interpreted as 0 = all, or 1… = page number. The following steps describe how to add different watermarks to follow-up pages: Add the watermark files to the ForNAV File Storage table. Add the

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Export/Import backup of ForNAV Setup, Layouts, Language, and File Storage

A customer ForNAV report project is often developed using a sandbox and when the reports are ready the result must be deployed to a production system.   To make this as easy as possible, the ForNAV Setup page has an Export/Import feature.   To export, in the ForNAV Setup page, click Backup, Export:   The

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Using ForNAV to print ZPL to a Zebra printer

This article is only relevant if you are running ForNAV Customizable Report Pack version 6.3.0.7 or later – or ForNAV 6.3.0.2289 or later. When printing to a Zebra label or receipt printer, it is often advantageous to use the ZPL language to print instead of using the normal Windows driver. The benefits include faster printing,

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Importing ForNAV backup, layouts and language files using PowerShell

When you use a built pipeline to deploy a new Business Central installation, you must also be able to install ForNAV layouts and language files without manual intervention   To do this, you must upload the ForNAV layout and language files to Azure blob storage:   And you must set the access to the folder

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Getting payment service information on ForNAV document reports

In Business Central you can choose a payment service for your documents (Order, Invoice, and so on)   To leverage this in ForNAV, you must define a JavaScript record on the Sales, Purchase, or Service template in the ForNAV Designer. Set the Table name to Payment Reporting Argument, the Link Refence to Header, and Temporary

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Character spacing

ForNAV reports do not have a character spacing setting for text boxes and labels. However, you can still get a similar result by introducing spaces in the text. Here is an image from a report where the word INVOICE was printed with spaces between the letters. The letters only have one space at each position.

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Update to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central 20.2 Cloud

This article is no longer relevant.

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Printing a ForNAV report to a receipt/continuous/infinite page size printer

When printing a ForNAV report to a receipt/continuous/infinite page size printer, the printer normally receives a FF (Form feed) command at the end of the print job and, since the printer typically prints “backwards” compared to a normal printer, a blank section is printed at the beginning to print out exactly one page. To avoid

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Upgrading ForNAV reports and layouts from OnPrem to Universal Code

Please see this updated article: Upgrade ForNAV OnPrem from DLL to Universal Code

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Merging a new ForNAV report into an existing extension

When creating a new ForNAV report, it is very convenient to be able to upload the report in an extension directly from the Designer, instead of having to create Visual Studio Code extension, save the report, and upload the extension using Visual Studio Code. However, having a lot of extensions containing a single report is

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