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Corfu Navision 2016, Development Tips, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

How do I translate my ResX Files?

Ashwini Tripathi

In my earlier post I have given the overview of Managing Multilanguage support in Navision continuing from same today I will discuss about how to translate the resx files for the Languages not available from Microsoft. 

Microsoft Translator for ResX:

To translate resx file you require to download Microsoft Translator for ResX you can use this link to download.

This will help you to translate your required .resx files

Azure Data Market account / Microsoft Translator data service:

You will need an Azure Data Market account, subscribe to Microsoft Translator data service and a register a developer application in order to use the tool.

You can start setting this up here: https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications/

Microsoft Translator is a service on the Windows Azure Marketplace that translates text between many languages. This is a billed service that comes with many different pricing plans. For example, one plan allows the translation of 2,000,000 characters per month for free.

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Steps to get ready for Translation tool:

  1. Get an account on the Azure Data Market with your Microsoft Live ID.
  2. Login into the Azure Data Market (ADM).
  3. Subscribe to the Microsoft Translator Service
  4. Create an application on top of this service in order to use the service in the ResX Translator tool.
  5. Go the developer application registration
  6. Choose the Register button to create a new application.
  7. Enter your information and choose the Create button.

Make sure you note your Client ID and Client Secret, you will need this if you wish to Translate Resx files using Microsoft Translator Service.

If you remember I have shared the link from where you can download Translation Tool. You will require Customer/Partner Source.

Download the Translation Tool (NAV2016PartnerTranslationsToolkit) and extract the zip file.

Scan the extracted Folder here few important files which will help identifying purpose of these files:

  1. Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe
  2. Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe.xml
  3. NAV 2016 Creating Custom Platform Translations.pdf
  4. PartnerTranslations.sln

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Each project contains the platform resource files (.resx) for all languages shipped by Microsoft.

The Visual Studio solution file, PartnerTranslations.sln, contains a project for each of the platform assemblies that contain translatable resources. In order to create a custom translation, you add the respective resource files with custom translations to the respective project.

Let us see the directory structure of “NAV2016PartnerTranslationsToolkit\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Language” similar structure is for other projects too.

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For detailed help you can refer to “NAV 2016 Creating Custom Platform Translations.pdf” file.

Let’s start with translating our resx files:

Run the “Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe” Tool

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Switch to Advanced Tab.

Enter the Client ID and Client Secret obtained in above step when we registered the Application.

Click on Save.

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Switch to Single File Tab.

Browse the .resx file for source language in my case if have selected “Common.Language.Lang.en-US.resx”

Translate To choose desired language available from the drop down. In my case I have selected “Hindi”.

Select the Language 3 char code in my case I have selected “hi-IN [HIN] Hindi (India)”

Click on Translate Now.

Once resx file is translated you will get the summary of result, click ok to return.

Similarly you translate the rex files for each projects listed above.

 

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Post this step you are ready with all of you resx file translated to desired language.

 

Corfu Navision 2016, Development Tips, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

Managing Multilanguage support in Navision Overview

Ashwini Tripathi

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV is Multilanguage enabled, which means that you can display the user interface (UI) in different languages.

A Multilanguage version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is not the same as a localized version.

  • A localized version is a version that is adapted to a local market. All text that is displayed to the user is translated into the local language, and all functional areas are adapted to the requirements of the local market.
  • A Multilanguage version is a localized version that you can run in different languages, but all local functionality remains the same.

 

Language Module:

To be able to run a localized version in multiple languages, you must install language modules.

Language Module contains translated text strings of Logs & error reporting for:

  • Translated strings for the UI in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.
  • Translated strings for the database.
  • Translated strings for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server, such as for logs and error reporting.
  • Translated strings for the Microsoft Office Outlook Add-in for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
  • Translated strings for charts on Role Centers in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.
  • Localized versions of the client Help.

Language Modules are Binary Files which can’t be changed by any external tools for this you will require Partner Translation Tool Project and Visual Studio.

You can install language modules so that you can view text in the user interface in different languages.

Once you have installed a language module, you can select that language on the Select Language page in the UI to change the language of all text that is displayed in the UI in captions for text boxes, on command buttons, in menus, and so on.

Imp: When you change the language of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you are not changing the language of the data that is stored in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Changing the text that is stored as application data is not part of the language modules.

When you install a language module, a subdirectory for the language is created in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV directory structure. The .stx, .etx, .chm, and .hh files for each language are automatically installed in the subdirectory. The name of the subdirectory is the three-letter language code (Abbreviated Name) that is used by Windows for the particular language.

You can use this link to access NAV 2016 downloads for Available – Product, Translation Tool & Language Modules. https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/Global/NAV/downloads/product-releases/msdnav2016download

 

There are 3 main parts for creating translations that works in Dynamics NAV.

  1. Translate the platform by translating the resource file for each DLL file.
  2. Translate all the captions by adding a new language into captionML in each object
  3. Localize development environment by translating .stx and .etx files. These 2 files have to be sent to the Microsoft regional office and sealed by Microsoft. (Only required if you want the Development Environment to be in Unsupported Language as well)

 

Common available resources for supported/available Language Module.

To work with Language Modules what else you required to know about: You can check below links on MSDN.

  1. Windows Language Virtual Table
  2. How to: Install Language Modules
  3. How to: Add Translated Strings By Importing and Exporting Multilanguage Files
  4. How to: Add Translated Strings By Using the Multilanguage Editor
  5. How to: Uninstall Language Modules
  6. How to: Delete Translated Strings
  7. Multilanguage Development
  8. Viewing the Application in Different Languages

 

Translated User Interface Strings:

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the user interface includes the following types of translatable user interface strings:

Captions for application objects, such as pages, tables, reports, option fields, icons, menus, and so on, that are defined in the CaptionML property for an object. Text messages that are defined in the development environment, such as text constants and error messages that are defined in the C/AL Globals window or the C/AL Locals window.

Text messages and strings that are defined in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server and Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.

To add a language to the text messages that are defined in the resource files for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server and Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client, special tools are required.

You can manage translations by using text files. In the development environment, you can export all strings for the specified objects to a text file, translate the strings in a translation tool of your choice, and then import the new translations. Then, when you compile the updated objects, the new translations are available to users in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client.

 

Multilanguage across Conflicting Text Encoding Formats:

To support users with translated strings across conflicting text encoding formats, you must save the translations to a text file in UTF-8 text encoding format.

This converts the file to Unicode, which Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment cannot import. Instead, you add the files to a dedicated Translations folder on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server computer.

The default location of this folder is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\90\Service\Translations.

When you have more than one service instance, there is a Translations folder for each service instance, such as:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\90\Service\Instances\MyInstance\Translations.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server adds any strings in text files that you place in the relevant Translations folder to the metadata for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

 

To add translated strings for a conflicting text encoding format:

In the development environment, export the strings for the objects that you want to translate.

Translate the strings in the resulting text file into desired Language by using your preferred translation process.

When translations are complete, save the translated strings into a text file in the UTF-8 text encoding format. The extension of the file must be .txt.

It is recommend that you remove the other Language strings from the Unicode file before you copy it to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server computer.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server queries the Translations folder for updated strings, and for performance reasons the folder should only contain strings that you cannot import into the development environment because of conflicting codepages.

Copy the UTF-8 file to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server computer.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\90\Service\Translations

When you have more than one service instance, there is a Translations folder for each service instance, such as:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\90\Service\Instances\MyInstance\Translations.

Restart the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server adds the translated strings in the file to the metadata store for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV deployment.

Now Users of this Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server session can now change the user interface language from English to required Language.

The metadata store is updated whenever you add new strings to the Translations folder and then restart the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server service instance. Cached strings are not deleted from the metadata store when you restart the service instance.

I will comeup with more details in my upcomming post soon.

Development Tips, Functional Tips, How To, Information, Maderia, Tip & Tricks

How Do I : Setup or Adjust Item Cost in Madeira

Ashwini Tripathi

 

In this post we will see how we can Setup Adjust Cost and how to Run Manually Item Cost Adjust Batch or Schedule the same.

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Search the Page Inventory Setup using Search Page in Right top corner of your screen.

Search for Inventory Setup Page.

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Make Sure Automatic Cost Posting is Setup as required.

Also Setup frequency of Automatic Cost Adjustment.

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Option Behavior
Never Costs are not adjusted when posting
Day Costs are adjusted if posting occurs within one day from the work date
Week Costs are adjusted if posting occurs within one week from the work date
Month Costs are adjusted if posting occurs within one month from the work date
Quarter Costs are adjusted if posting occurs within one quarter from the work date
Year Costs are adjusted if posting occurs within one year from the work date
Always Costs are always adjusted when posting, irrespective of the posting date

Now we will Run the Adjust cost Item Entries Batch.
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Apply the desired filter for Item or Category as desired.

Next you can run Immediately or can schedule for later execution.

If you require Immediately choose OK.

If you wish to schedule for Later Run choose Schedule.

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Enter your Date & Time and click OK.

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To check the status of the Scheduled Run, Search and open the Page Job Queue Log Entries.

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You can find the Status of your Scheduled Job for Adjust Cost Entries.

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It’s easy na.

I will come up with more details in my upcoming posts.

Till then keep Exploring & Learning.

 

 

Development Tips, Functional Tips, How To, Information, Maderia, Tip & Tricks

How do I : Adjust Inventory in Madeira

Ashwini Tripathi

Do you know, it is very easy to Adjust Inventory in Madeira.

Let us see how this action can be done.

Start with Login to Madeira using your credentials.

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From Landing page, choose Item from Navigation Bar in Left.

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From the list of Item choose Edit or View to access the Card of selected Item.

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Now from action choose Adjust Inventory.

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Enter your New Inventory Value. Like in Below screen I want to Add 50 more Inventory.

I Enter 150 including Existing Inventory in System.

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Select OK.

Inventory now increases by 50 adding 100 to existing inventory making total of 150 available inventory.

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We are done with our task, Adjusting Inventory.

I will come with more details in my upcoming posts.

Till then keep exploring and learning.

 

Cumulative Updates, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

Cumulative Update 19 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 – Released in May 2016

Ashwini Tripathi

Cumulative Update 19 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.

The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions:

  •   AU – Australia
  •   AT – Austria
  •   BE – Belgium
  •   CH – Switzerland
  •   CZ – Czech Republic
  •   DE – Germany
  •   DK – Denmark
  •   ES – Spain
  •   FI  – Finland
  •   FR – France
  •   IS – Iceland
  •   IT – Italy
  •   NA – North America
  •   NL – Netherlands
  •   NO – Norway
  •   NZ – New Zealand
  •   RU – Russia
  •   SE – Sweden
  •   UK – United Kingdom

Note: You must convert the database if you are upgrading to this cumulative update from a cumulative update earlier than Cumulative Update 9 (build 41779). For more information, see Converting a Database in Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Note: To enable customized translation of profiles, a number of actions are now available on the Profile List page. You can export and import resource files to enable translation for one or more profiles. The steps to install and uninstall language modules have also been modified. For more information, see How to: Install Language Modules, How to: Uninstall Language Modules, and How to: Export, Edit, and Import Translated Profile Strings in Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Where to find Cumulative Update 19

You can download the cumulative update from KB 3157490 – Cumulative Update 19 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 45813).

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Additional Information

For information about how to install the cumulative update, see How to Install a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Cumulative Update.

For information about how to work around a recent process change, see How to Get Back the ‘Hotfix Directories’ from NAV 2015 Cumulative Update 1.

For a list of all cumulative updates for this version, see Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.

 

Corfu Navision 2016, Cumulative Updates, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

Cumulative Update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 – Released in May 2016

Ashwini Tripathi

Cumulative Update 7 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016.

The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions:

  •   AU – Australia
  •   AT – Austria
  •   BE – Belgium
  •   CH – Switzerland
  •   CZ – Czech Republic
  •   DE – Germany
  •   DK – Denmark
  •   ES – Spain
  •   FI  – Finland
  •   FR – France
  •   IS – Iceland
  •   IT – Italy
  •   NA – North America
  •   NL – Netherlands
  •   NO – Norway
  •   NZ – New Zealand
  •   RU – Russia
  •   SE – Sweden
  •   UK – United Kingdom

Where to find Cumulative Update 7

You can download the cumulative update from KB 3157492 – Cumulative Update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 45834).

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Additional Information

For information about how to install the cumulative update, see How to Install a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cumulative Update.

For a list of all cumulative updates for this version, see Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016.

Cumulative Updates, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

Cumulative Update 31 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 – Released in May 2016

Ashwini Tripathi

Cumulative Update 31 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.

The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions:

  •   AU – Australia
  •   AT – Austria
  •   BE – Belgium
  •   CH – Switzerland
  •   CZ – Czech Republic
  •   DE – Germany
  •   DK – Denmark
  •   ES – Spain
  •   FI  – Finland
  •   FR – France
  •   IS – Iceland
  •   IT – Italy
  •   NA – North America
  •   NL – Netherlands
  •   NO – Norway
  •   NZ – New Zealand
  •   RU – Russia
  •   SE – Sweden
  •   UK – United Kingdom

Where to find Cumulative Update 31

You can download the cumulative update from KB 3157488 – Cumulative Update 31 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (Build 45822).

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Additional Information

For more information about cumulative updates for this version, see Announcement of update rollups for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.

For a list of all cumulative updates for this version, see Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.

For a list of all hotfixes included in cumulative updates for this version, see the following CustomerSource and PartnerSource pages:

CustomerSource:

PartnerSource

Cumulative Updates, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

Cumulative Update 38 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Released in May 2016

Ashwini Tripathi

Cumulative Update 38 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.KB 3157486

The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions:

  • AU – Australia
  • AT – Austria
  • BE – Belgium
  • CH – Switzerland
  • DE – Germany
  • DK – Denmark
  • ES – Spain
  • FI – Finland
  • FR – France
  • IS – Iceland
  • IT – Italy
  • NA – North America
  • NL – Netherlands
  • NO – Norway
  • NZ – New Zealand
  • SE – Sweden
  • UK – United Kingdom

Where to find Cumulative Update 38

You can download the cumulative update from KB 3157486 – Cumulative Update 38 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Build 45787).

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Additional Information

For a list of all cumulative updates for this version, see Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.

For a list of all hotfixes included in cumulative updates for this version, see the following CustomerSource and PartnerSource pages:

CustomerSource:

PartnerSource:

Azure, Corfu Navision 2016, Development Tips, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Machine, Server, Tip & Tricks, Virtual

Creating Virtual Machine on Azure

Ashwini Tripathi

Continuing from my previous post.

In previous post we saw how to register for Free Azure Portal Account, if you missed you can find the link here.

Today we will see how to create Virtual Machine for Dynamics Navision 2016 pre Loaded.

Lets start creating one for our future posts practice.

Open the page : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ and follow onscreen Instruction to login to your account.

Login using the account credentials you used for registering on Azure Portal.

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Upon signing you will be landed to your dashboard on Portal.

You can see we don’t have any resource on Portal yet.

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Lets start creating one.

Click on New from Top right corner.

Choose Virtual Machine.

Enter “Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016” in the search box, it will list available Virtual Machine images.

Select the one available Virtual Machine for commissioning.

I have choose this because we will get preinstalled NAV 2016 which will save our time.

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Select Deployment Model, I have choose Classic and click on Create.

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Next we will enter  Host Name, User Name, Password, other things you adjust as per your need. Click on Create.

Note your User Name & Password you will require this to login to the Server.

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Give some time to get created and up your Server.

In the mean time you can explore other things till your Server is up and running for you.

Once it is made available, you can start login and explore your newly created Server.

Where to find my Server?

From the Navigation Bar choose Virtual Machine (classic).

It will list you all Virtual Machines created by you.

Select your Virtual Machine in my case it is NavDemo.

You can find the Server Name and IP of your Virtual Machine.

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I am using my IP to login to my Server.

Open your Remote Desktop Connection and enter your IP.

The User Name & Password as we created in previous step.

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Here I am Login to my Server.

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You can see that Dynamics NAV 2016 is already available with my Server.

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That’s all for today, we will see more in my upcoming posts.

Till then keep exploring & Learning.

 

 

 

How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Maderia, Tip & Tricks

Using Payment Services – in Madeira

Ashwini Tripathi

It’s obvious you know we can include link in PDF documents, if you don’t know no issues everything is not known to every one until he uses it or someone inform them. Today we will be learning this feature for making payments using links in your PDF invoices generated from Madeira.

If you had setup the preview this feature is already available in CRONIUS US demo company.

How do we Setup:

Login to Madeira Project using your Credentials.

Click on Search Page from right top corner.

Search for Payment Services page.

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Open the Page.

Click on Setup and enter your details as shown in above screen.

Click on Maximize button and Show more to see more details.

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Payment Service Link:

In the CRONUS US demonstration company, the payment link inserted into invoices will link to the PayPal test site.

For your actual Company, we will set so that the payment link will point to the real PayPal site, where payments can be made.

It is advisable that not to do this up for the Actual Company until Project “Madeira” is generally available for purchase. And authorized documentation on this feature is released from Madeira.

If you have setup Always Include on Document then you need not to perform any additional step, but in case you want to add the Payments Service Link to individual invoices that too can be done.

Manually Selecting Payment Services:

Open your Invoice on which you want to include this option.

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As you can see in above Invoice no Payment Service is included.

Click on the Lookup on right side of the field.

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Select the Payment Service from the list of available Services, and click on OK.

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When you send the invoice to your customer the Payment Service Link will be included in the Invoice PDF.

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How it will look in Invoice:

The PDF will contain the link to your selected Payment Service using which your customer can do the payment.

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Stay tuned for more Information in upcoming posts.

Till then keep exploring and learning.