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Knowledge Base
Knowledge base articles (or “KB articles”) are your go-to resource for detailed feature insights and practical tips on using FORNAV. They’re filled with essential knowledge to address almost any question you might have.
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FIK code
Updated December 2022 In some cases, customers still want to have a FIK code on their invoices. To make this possible, ForNAV has a built-in function string, CurrReport.FIK(CardType: Number, Number: String, Account: String): string,which you can use to create the FIK string. If you use Continia’s Payment solution, to create the following FIK string: +71<000000004040663+12345678<…
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Get line discounts on the Pro Forma Invoice
By default, the line discounts are not displayed on the ForNAV Pro Forma Invoice. This is by design; the underlying code clears the values and recalculates the line amounts. If you want to use the original lines, you can create a new JavaScript record to read them from Business Central: Keywords: ProForma
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Move, modify, insert, and remove data items, sections, and controls in the Report Explorer
Under the Field List in the left pane of the Designer, you can find the Report Explorer: You use the Report Explorer to edit a report using a tree view, in the following ways: You can move around data items, sections, and controls using drag-and-drop functionality. For example, you can: Move a data item…
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Set up VAT clauses for your ForNAV reports
The VAT clauses in ForNAV work just like for any Business Central report. To set up VAT clauses, you must first create a new VAT clause. If necessary, you can set up translations for the VAT clauses as well. After you have created the VAT clause, you can add it to the VAT Posting Setup:…
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Microsoft Excel reports in the ForNAV Report Pack
The ForNAV Report Pack 7.0 contains a set of out-of-the-box Excel reports to enable exporting aggregated data from the Business Central Ledger tables. Each report can be run from their respective parent page (Customer List, Vendor List, and so on). On the request page, you can select the language of the Excel sheet…
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Creating a Microsoft Excel report with ForNAV
With ForNAV 7.0, you can create a custom Excel report, which has several benefits. You can: Create the report without writing AL code – it only requires knowledge about the Business Central data model. Easily add data from related tables. Create a separate Excel worksheet per data item, which is better suited for Excel…
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Override printer selection with an event
In situations where the normal use of the Printer Selection page is not enough to select the right printer for the current user, there is an event to help you override the printer selection. It is a standard event that is called before the request page is shown. The following code is an example 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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Change the folder of the extension layout files
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…
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Footers with company information
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…