You probably clicked the shiny new Send to… buttons only to be dissapointed with the following error:

You’ll be pleased to know that there is a way to get it working.

Import the style sheet management objects

From a clean version 5 Cronus database, export the following objects, then import into your target database:

• Form 690 Manage Style Sheets
• Form 691 Send-to Programs
• Form 692 Import Style Sheet
• Form 693 Program Selection
• Form 694 Style Sheets
• Codeunit 403 Application Launch Management

Populate the Send-to Program table

Populate table 2000000065 Send-to Program with the following data:

{00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046},EXCEL.EXE,%1,Microsoft Excel
{000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046},WINWORD.EXE,%1,Microsoft Word

Modify Codeunit 1

Copy and paste the following functions from Codeunit 1 in a version 5 database to your target database:

• LaunchApp
• SelectStyleSheet
• ManageStyleSheets
• GetUidOffset

Copy the Stylesheets folder

From the version 5 installation media, goto CsideClient\program files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\CSIDE Client and copy the Stylsheets folder to you NAV installation location.

The folder contains the following XSLT files:

• ContactLetterToWord.xslt
• CustomerLetterToWord.xslt
• NavisionFormToExcel.xslt
• NavisionFormToWord.xslt
• SalesOrderConfirmationToWord.xslt
• SalesQuoteToWord.xslt
• VendorLetterToWord.xslt

Import style sheets common to all forms

Select Style sheets for this form only

Select Form No. 21, Customer Card
Select Functions, Import 
Select Microsoft Word as the Send-to Program
Lookup in the Style Sheet field, browse for and select the CustomerLetterToWord.xslt file.

Select Form No. 26, Vendor Card
Select Functions, Import 
Select Microsoft Word as the Send-to Program
Lookup in the Style Sheet field, browse for and select the VendorLetterToWord.xslt file.

Select Form No. 41, Sales Quote
Select Functions, Import 
Select Microsoft Word as the Send-to Program
Lookup in the Style Sheet field, browse for and select the SalesQuoteToWord.xslt file.

Select Form No. 42, Sales Order
Select Functions, Import 
Select Microsoft Word as the Send-to Program
Lookup in the Style Sheet field, browse for and select the SalesOrderConfirmationToWord.xslt file.

Select Form No. 5050, Contact Card
Select Functions, Import 
Select Microsoft Word as the Send-to Program
Lookup in the Style Sheet field, browse for and select the ContactLetterToWord.xslt file.

Test the changes

Open a Sales Order and click the Send to Microsoft Office Word button on the toolbar to see your lovely new Send-to functionality in action.

A number of stylesheets are provided with the product for use when exporting to Microsoft Office Word and Excel.

From a Sales Order for example, we can click the Send To Microsoft Office Word button and we get a nicely formatted Sales Order presented to us in Microsoft Word.

So what’s the first thing we are going to want to change?

That’s right, the logo.

We want it to show ours, or our customers lovely emblem instead.

Step forth the Creating XML Style Sheets for Data Export White Paper from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 techincal white paper available via PartnerSource.

This document contains a section titled Adding Your Logo to a Style Sheet.

Perfect you may think, until you follow the instructions to the letter and all you get is a placeholder where the image should be.

Why? Because there is an error in the white paper guide.

These are the steps quoted directly from the document:

1. Open the customer card for customer number 10000 and click Send to Microsoft Office Word button to create a Word document using the CustomerLetterToWord.xslt style sheet.
2. In Word, replace the CRONUS logo with the appropriate logo. Save the document as XML.
3. Open the XML file with Visual Studio. Select the text that defines the logo graphic. This is the text between the w:bindata and /w:bindata tags. Copy the text.
4. Open the CustomerLetterToWord.xslt in Visual Studio. Select the text between the <w:bindata> and< /w:bindata> tags and paste.
5. Save the modified style sheet with a new name and import it into Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in the manage Style Sheets window.

The functionality allows you to have your end user digitally sign an end user license or go-live sign off agreement before opening a ‘live’ company.

To set this up you must run Form 180 from Object Designer. The License Agreement Setup Card will be shown:

You can enter a message which will be presented to the user in the Message for Accepting field and a date from which the agreement is effective in the Effective Date field – this would be your go-live date.

On opening the ‘Live’ company, or any company which doesn’t contain the word CRONUS, the user will be presented with the License Agreement Accept window:

The user must then tick the Accepted check box or click the Accept button before being allowed into the database to signify that they agree with the terms of the eula.

The hyperlink styled command button with blue text opens the eula.rtf file in the NAV client folder. On push, a call to the ShowEULA() function which sits in table 140 License Agreement is made:

Although, the user can still gain access to the database should they choose not to accept the eula, a dialog will be shown informing them that the agreement has not been signed and they will be greeted with the license acceptance form each time they open a non-CRONUS company in the database.

Part of this same functionality will also warn the user of the inteded Go Live date if they open a non-CRONUS company before the date defined in the Effective Date field on the License Agreement Setup Card:

I don't think Microsoft have finished working on this fully yet as I did notice some commented code behind the Accept button:

I supose they've just not decided if clicking the Accept button should close the form or not. Or maybe they're just leaving it up to us.

I've tested the whole process and it does offer quite a neat way to get a digital sign-off on go-live day.