Navision Employee portal and reports with local characters

If you are using Navision Employee Portal (NEP) and you are in some country which is using some special characters, you can have problems with reports in NEP. The characters can be miss-coded on the output. There is no problem within webparts, where local characters are working correctly. Microsoft is working on solution...

Of course, this is not critical error and you can still use NEP in live environment. You will only have some strange characters on reports output in NEP... :-)
Published Tue, Apr 11 2006 11:42 by kine
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# re: Navision Employee portal and reports with local characters

You talk about reports in Nav Employee Portal, but how do you show reports in EP ? There's no such thing as a Report Web Part ? I found some info on how you could run a report via a link action, but then you're limited to only a few reports and is you want more, then you need to change some codeunit. What's the easiest way to show any report that exists in my Navision DB onto my Employee Portal ?

Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:01 AM by someone

# re: Navision Employee portal and reports with local characters

1) I used the standard one, which is on the Sales order part.

2) You can use all reports, but yes, just some are supported by default. There is no way how to do that in generally. NAV needs to know, on which table is the report based to be able to call it with correct record variable. This is part of codeunit 6828, where you need to tell NAV that report xy is based on Item table, xz on SalesHeader table etc. If you need another table based report. But this is just easy modification by copy&paste and modify for your base table...

Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:13 AM by kine