printing cheques

tgfkarick

How do you setup the alignment for printing cheques under payment journals, the cheques seems to print ok but it is not correct for the cheque layout sheet we have?

Thanks

rp

BHT

Hi rp,
before we continue, do you have developer license?

tgfkarick

No developer license, just a user.....do I need to get the company who provided us with Attain to make these changes? I was hoping I could do it myself.

Thanks,

rp

bobbySrivastava

I dont think that devloper licnse is required.
If you go to the printers window you will find server properties where you can make your new form having your cheque size settings, and whenever you print , you should be able to select this new form .

sublimeson

Brand new to Navision. I have a user with a similar problem. Just wondering where to find the Server Properties and how to go about making new forms.

Thanks,

- jj

Savatage

Start Button->Printers & Faxes->File->Server properties
Depending on your version of Windows
or
Control Panel->Printers->File->server properties
There is a check box called "Create A New Form"

Do you have some odd check size? Using A laser?

We bought the checks to match the software instead of modifying the software to match our old checks.
We get our checks from www.compuchecks.com plus they are in NY too.
Good Price, Quick service, Free logo, navision & laser friendly .
6000 for 329.99 or 2500 for 159.99

We use check on bottom
http://compuchecks.com/newcolorspulp.htm

sublimeson

Ahh yes I see, I thought the post before was referring to creating a new form in Navision. I'm not sure the exact size of the check, but it IS a laser printer. The user's previous printer was old and stopped wanting to print anything, so we set up a new dell laser printer that was lying around. She said it prints fine on the checks when she uses QuickBooks for a different account. I'll look into it some more tomorrow morning I guess, and try to make a new form. Thanks for the help.

Savatage

The check report is 1401 - you can adjust some field positions if they are not falling into the exact position required.

Have a backup of that report - so you can put it back if you mess it up

Onsales now $99.99 HP Laserjet 1020-Prints my checks just fine. well worth the 100 bucks
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... ku=7264122

sublimeson

Thanks! Now since I'm a super-noobie (4th day on the job/working with Navision), how would I go about backing up the original report? Is there a way I can just copy it and create a new one to modify?

I wish it were possible to just replace the printer, but I'm just an intern and this is a very small company with no actual IT budget. I'll do my best to convince the president :-k

Thanks again!

boywonder

to back up the report just select it in Object Designer and then File, Export.

To bring it back simply File, Import (in Object Designer again) - say yes to open the Import worksheet and then click replace all.

Savatage

sublimeson wrote:

I wish it were possible to just replace the printer, but I'm just an intern and this is a very small company with no actual IT budget. I'll do my best to convince the president :-k
Thanks again!

he Spent a bunch on Navision and can't shell out another $100 to get a new printer. :-k

sublimeson

Navision 3.10B...

The Checks print, just messed up alignment since changing to the Dell 3820 Laser printer. Hopefully I can solve the problem without making any purchases. I need to learn how to edit the reports anyway. Thanks for all the help so far, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot of questions for the next few months.

Savatage

Keep asking \:D/
You can handle alignment. Each print driver handles things a bit different.

sublimeson

Is there an electronic version of a developer's guide out there somewhere?

Savatage

http://emiel.romein.googlepages.com/w1w1adg.pdf

sublimeson

OMG...Thank You!! \:D/ I think I've already doubled my former knowledge on the subject of Navision after about 10 mins of looking at that. I think I should be able to simply adjust the top margin property, because it appears to just be printing everything too low on the check. Will hafta test it out tomorrow when the user is around.

Thanks Thanks Thanks.

Savatage

Here's Another one you might want to flip thru.
http://us.share.geocities.com/powerofth ... ALProg.pdf

sublimeson

Just an update, changing the top margin for the check in the object designer didn't seem to change anything at all, it's still printing exactly the same. Boo.Hiss.

Savatage

Try Adjusting the size of the Sections or adjusting the locations of the fields in the sections

Once designing the report View->Sections

sublimeson

I made a backup of the check report, then moved a bunch of stuff around and absolutely nothing happened. This leads me to believe that the 1401 Check Report is not what is being used. I tested out the printing with a plain sheet of paper on the printer in my office and the alignment looked fine.

The company I work for pays some worthless outside company for "Help" Desk Support. They are the ones who originally set up Navision for us. I was "lucky" enough to actually get a response within 24 hours. Of course the sales and marketing guy who responded (only because he's been trying to get us to pay them for the update to a new version) just tried his best to make me feel dumb, and didn't answer any question I asked.

Ok, enough ranting, I'm just wondering if there's any way to figure out which report is actually the one being used to print the checks. I've gone to Setup and Report Selections, but don't see anything for our check printing in there.

I'm going to spend a little bit longer on this, and if all else fails I'm just going to swap the printers.

Thanks for all your help, it's nice to be able to ask a question and get a straight answer. Mr Salesman claims this can't be figured out over the phone and wants to send someone over (for a ridiculous hourly fee of course).

Savatage

are you adjusting the "Copied" Report or the original.

As far as I know you cannot test this report in a live system else you'll actually be cutting checks. Unless you keep vioding them.

Anyway, Once you adjust/move around fields if you run the checks the way you always do it's going to use the Original report. Now if you go to the report thru object designer and click on the copied report & hit run - it will use that one.

Also if you go to tools->debugger->code Coverage->on

then cut a check - go back to code coverage and you can see what report was used.

sublimeson

I'm adjusting the original report, I just exported a backup copy in case I messed anything up.

As far as cutting checks, we created a fake $1 balance and I've been voiding it each time.

.........

I went and did the Code Coverage, and once again, THANK YOU!!

I sent a simple email to the help desk asking them if they had created a custom check report for us prior to me working here. I got no answer to that question. I asked how to figure out which report was being used. I was told they couldn't help me over the phone...

I think you deserve the $1,200 or so that we're paying for their "support."

Thanks again.

Savatage

the code coverage will show you what report/codeunits/table etc are being used it's pretty handy.

As far as the money goes, You can always become a site supporter, luc has done a great job with this site.

http://www.mibuso.com/donation.asp

sublimeson

Problem solved.

As I suspected there was a custom report being used. Thanks for the heads up about the code coverage. Now if our help desk had just informed me about that...