Word Report with Pictures in NAV2017

Hi,

There seems to be a problem with printing a picture in a Word Report with NAV2017.

The Picture field has been changed to a new data type called Media Set (rather than blob).

If a construct a very simple Word report in Cronus with a :

Item.GET('1900-S');

and then just create a Word Document which displays the Item.Picture field, I get the following behaviour:

1. Running the report from the Dev environment works fine.

2. I then go to Report Layouts and Create a Custom Report Layout (without changing the report layout at all) and make that Custom Report Layout the default for the test report.

3. When I run the report after that then an error pops up saying -

"The Word Layout does not comply with the current report design ... of type Picture is bound to a data source that contains an incompatible type MediaSet"

It offers an option to run an Automatic Update but that does not work.

The curious thing is that the report output then appears correctly but another error message pops up after that about incompatibility.

I suspect this is a Microsoft bug - it's present in NAV2017 CU2.

Has anyone else experienced this and come up with a workaround in the absence of a MS fix?

Thanks!