What’s the Coffee Break concept?
Over the years, the FORNAV YouTube channel and its “Coffee Breaks” videos have become a go-to source for FORNAV knowledge, tips, and best practices. We are thrilled that you make good use of these short 10-minute videos.
Each FORNAV Coffee Break is hosted as a short live webinar, where you’re welcome to attend and ask questions. If you can’t make it live, you can always watch the recording on demand below. We’ve organized the videos into categories to help you easily find content on specific topics. You can also use the “Search Coffee Break” field above to locate a particular session.
Sign up for the next Coffee Break sessions
We regularly schedule new Coffee Breaks. If any are planned in the coming weeks, you’ll find them listed below, along with links to the sign-up page.
Conversion to the external layout type explained
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10.00 CET
Please sign-up here
Add subtotals to your Business Central reports
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 10.00 CET
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Add repeaters to your Business Central reports
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 10.00 CET
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Add prepayment information to your documents
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 10.00 CET
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Add contract information to your reports
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 10.00 CET
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Append report output to your FORNAV reports
Watch recorded Coffee Breaks here:
In the past few years, we have recorded countless Coffee Break sessions to help you navigate and use the different FORNAV features. We have grouped them in categories. Click on the “+” sign to expand each category and access the video recording on this page.
Easy setup and start (Get started faster with tips and tutorials)
Business Central reports based on templates
Create a new Business Central report in one minute
Getting started with FORNAV in Business Central Cloud (SaaS)
Getting started with FORNAV Universal Code in Business Central On Premise
User permissions setup for FORNAV
Move FORNAV setup and reports from test to production
Best practices for creating new FORNAV reports
Getting started with FORNAV JavaScript for non-developers
Automatically archive your Business Central reports
Moving your new and modified reports from Sandbox to Production in Business Central
Restore backups of your FORNAV reports
Structure of FORNAV reports, what can you modify and where
Tenant layout conversion explained
Business Central report layouts
Print your Business Central reports directly, overview
Print your Business Central reports directly, client
Print your Business Central reports directly, Service
Basic report design (Perform the most essential report design tasks with FORNAV)
Replace standard Business Central reports
Basic features under CurrReport and FieldLookups
Add specific terminology to your Bsuiness Central reports
Add totals to your Business Central reports without writing code
Grow your Business Central report fields with their content
Add Style Sheets to your Business Central reports
Add Barcodes to Business Central reports
Add transport totals to your Business Central reports
Add charts to your Business Central reports
Adding multiple logo’s to your Business Central reports
Adding multiple watermarks to your Business Central reports
Add terms and conditions to your Business Central reports
Add table and page extensions
Build dynamic text blocks for your Business Central reports
Format the addresses on your Business Central reports
With FORNAV you don’t need to know anything about AL-code, Visual Studio Code or Powershell
With FORNAV you don’t need to spend ages trying to get your captions to fit
Create your Business Central email layouts with FORNAV
Advance drag and drop in your Business Central report design
Advanced section control in FORNAV
Moving sections and DataItems in your FORNAV reports
Add digital signatures to your Business Central reports
Add different watermarks for follow-up pages for your Business Central reports
Add editable PDF fields to your Business Central reports
Edit your Business Central labels
Customize Business Central checks with MICR fonts
Appending multiple PDF filed to your Business Central reports
Excel reporting
A detailed look at Business Central Excel report
Create new Business Central Excel reports
Automatically check the health of your Business Central reports
Advanced report design (Understand how to do the more complex report design jobs)
Run and monitor your Business Central reports with FORNAV Report Service
Add request page values to your Business Central reports
Removing SetRange, SetFilter and Get
Add editable PDF fields to your Business Central reports
Add freight and other subtotals to your business Central reports
Get data
Get related data based on your report language
Add item attributes to your Business Central reports
Add DataItems to your Business Central reports. The easy way.
Get backorder information on your Business Central invoices
Add salutations to your Business Central reports
With FORNAV you don’t need to write lookup code
Add Lot and Serial numbers to all your Business Central reports. The easy way.
Get multiple records from related Business Central tables without writing code
Use multiple bank accounts in your Business Central reports
Automatically calculate your totals in your Business Central reports
Print large HTML texts across multiple Business Central report pages
Add tables to your Business Central report without writing code
Get data from related Business Central tables without writing code
Removing SetRange, SetFilter and GetLink
Create prepayment invoices for Business Central
Add temporary tables to your FORNAV reports. The easy way.
Language (Handling languages and translations in your reports)
Get related data based on your report language
Manage your extension translations
Add specific terminology to your Business Central reports
With FORNAV you don’t need to write lookup code
With FORNAV you don’t need to spend ages trying to get your captions to fit
Create your Business Central email layouts with FORNAV
PDF (Working with PDF in your BC reports)
Add editable PDF fields to your Business Central reports
Add digital signatures to your Business Central reports
Add editable PDF fields to your Business Central reports
Appending multiple PDF files to your Business Central reports
Totals (Managing totals and subtotals)
Add freight and other subtotals to your Business Central reports
Add totals to your Business Central reports without writing code
Add transport totals to your Business Central reports
Automatically calculate your totals in your Business Central reports
AL Development (Tips and best practices for doing AL development in FORNAV)
Change the AL file of your FORNAV Reports
Source control in GitHub for Business Central and FORNAV Reports
Remove implicit and explicit “WITH” from your Business Central code
Add temporary tables to the AL file of your FORNAV reports
Add againg buckets to your Business Central report
Manage your extension translations
FORNAV Runtime Packages with auto build and test
Create report extensions for your FORNAV Reports
Add temporary tables to your FORNAV reports
Add FORNAV reports to your Business Central extension
Access files on your local drive from Business Central cloud
Run local PowerShell scripts from Business Central
Convert your C/SIDE application to an extension
Converting reports from C/SIDE to AL – and from OnPrem to Cloud
Upgrade FORNAV OnPrem from DLL to Universal Code
Print labels in Zebra language from Business Central
Converting reports from C/SIDE to AL – and from OnPrem to Cloud
Upgrade FORNAV OnPrem from DLL to Universal Code
Scripting
JavaScript in FORNAV, tips and tricks
Use JavaScript from a template report
Removing SetRange, SetFilter and Get
Add matrix tables to your Business Central reports
Matrix table revolutions
Avoid white space in your Business Central report headers
Create prepayment invoices for Busness Central
Keep header, body and footer section on the same page
Change fonts/color/showoutput with JavaScript
Add multiple signatures to your Business Central Check reports
Add advanced field formatting to your Business Central reports
Use record values in footers (add JavaScript values)
Add position numbers to your Business Central sales documents
Add terms and conditions per language to your Business Central reports
Merge data from multiple sources in your Business Central reports
Get multiple records from related Business Central tables without writing code
Add freight and other subtotals to your Business Central reports
Temporary tables (Work effectively with temporary tables)
Add temporary tables to your FORNAV reports. The easy way.
Add Item attributes to your Business Central reports
Add Lot and Serial numbers to all your Business Central reports. The easy way.
Use multiple bank accounts in your Business Central reports
Print large HTML texts across multiple Business Central report pages
Labels & barcodes (Work with barcodes and labels in your BC reports)
Add Barcodes to your Business Central reports
With FORNAV you don’t need to know anything about AL-code, Visual Studio Code or PowerShell
Advance drag and drop on your Business Central report design
Edit your Business Central labels
Document distribution (Distribute your reports easily as e-documents, prints, or PDF)
Create ZUGFeRD invoices from Business Central
Customize your Business Central e-invoices (ZUGFeRD & XRechnung)
FORNAV E invoicing: Extend standard BC with ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Peppol
Print labels in Zebra language from Business Central
Print your Business Central reports directly, overview
Print your Business Central reports directly, client
Print labels in Zebra language from Business Service
Add digital signatures to your Business Central reports
Add editable PDF fields to your Business Central reports
Appending multiple PODF files to your Business Central reports
Conversion & upgrades
Convert your C/SIDE application to an extension
Converting reports from C/SIDE to AL – and from OnPrem to Cloud
Upgrade FORNAV OnPrem from DLL to Universal Code
Structure, layouts & extensions
Business Central extension management made easy
Structure of FORNAV reports, what can you modify and where
Tenant layout conversion explained
Business Central report layouts explained
E-documents (E-invoicing, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, Peppol)
Create ZUGFeRD invoices from Business Central
Customize your Business Central e-invoices (ZUGFeRD & XRechnung)
FORNAV E invoicing: Extend standard BC with ZUGFeRD, XRechnung and Peppol
Excel (Understand and use the FORNAV integration to Microsoft Excel)
Excel reporting
A detailed look at Business Central Excel report
Create new Business Central Excel reports
Local file & programs access (Regain access to local programs and files and run local PowerShell script)
Regain access to C:\ files from Business Central with the FORNAV File Service
Access files on your local drive from Business Central cloud
Run local PowerShell scripts from Business Central
Print (FORNAV Direct Print explained)
Print labels in Zebra language from Business Central
Print your Business Central reports directly, overview
Print your Business Central reports directly, client
Print labels in Zebra language from Business Service
From struggle to simplicity
When we move customers to FORNAV, they are amazed by our ability to swiftly deliver report updates within hours which is far from the extended timelines (up to several days) they’ve encountered previously.