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How can we edit report 1306 field lables

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

We have no developer licence in my company, but we are able to maintain our own word templates for standard reports. For example we have customized a word template for report 1306 Sales - Invoice.

We use standard field lables (like YourReference_Lbl in below example) from the XML data. We sometimes want a different label text, and thought about using a fixed text in the word layout instead of the standard field label, but this is not a good solution, because we also want to be able to print in 2 languages.

Can we edit the field label texts without a developer licence?

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    Jan Veenendaal Profile Picture
    Jan Veenendaal 510 on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    Yes, NAV 2017.

    I agree with your thoughts.... (even being a developer myself)

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    Hi Jan

    Thanks for reply and possible work-around.

    By newest release you mean 2017?

    I have NAV 2016 9.045243.0 and I can only select layout per company. Not per customer.

    I think developers are not trained to be qualified translators, so the fact that you need a developer license to do translations is .... eeeehh I don't know what I think it is. Maybe a nice opportunity for Microsoft  to improve NAV.

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    Jan Veenendaal Profile Picture
    Jan Veenendaal 510 on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    Currently all labels and texts are actually in the NAV objects, not in a table or some other out-of-code place.

    So, to change labels on your reports, you will need (someone with access to) a developer license.

    As a work-around, only in the newest release of NAV:

    you can have customer specific layouts - in that case you could have one layout using language 1 and another layout using language 2. Then you could have one of these as your default layout (the one that has the most used language), and then set up the other layout for customers needing the 'other' language.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    It should be pretty clear that the issue is still open.

  • Yogesh Kulkarni_ Profile Picture
    Yogesh Kulkarni_ 1,762 on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    Are you done with the Issue? If so, can you please mark it as verified?

    -Yogesh Kulkarni
    Please verify, if you find answer helpful.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    Thanks Yogesh Kulkarni for your response :-)

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    Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    I know how to change the Word template as decribed in the links you supply.

    It doesn't seem logical to me if the translation of lables/captions/texts are a part of the built-in Report ifself. I would rather expect the translations to be stored in a table in the database. A table I might be able to update with a simple query.

    But maybe this is just wishfull thinking?

  • Yogesh Kulkarni_ Profile Picture
    Yogesh Kulkarni_ 1,762 on at
    RE: How can we edit report 1306 field lables

    We can modify a layout of built-in Report from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment only.

    Unfortunately, I think, there is a need of developer license for this.

    You can try below links, if those can be of any help to you.

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn757306(v=nav.90).aspx

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn757229(v=nav.90).aspx

    -Yogesh Kulkarni
    Please verify, if you find answer helpful.

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