Tharanga Chandrasekara

Over ten years of experience in developing and implementing software solutions within the banking, tourism, manufacturing, education and retail sectors. Proven success of technical and functional skills in Technical Solution Development, Technical Consultation, Business Process Analyst, Process Re-Engineering, Solution Design, Project Management, Research & ERP Implementations. Managed and participated in over 40+ successful ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) implementations during the past 10+ years while building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations. Possess a strong ability to turn around at-risk projects and deliver unique results. Recognize the value of being friendly, calm and helpful when interacting with people in all areas of life and always willing to learn new skills to build on strengths and learn from experiences. Active member and a community moderator of the official Microsoft Dynamics NAV Community forum and regularly share knowledge with others through personal Dynamics NAV Blog, user groups and webinars. Strongly believes that "one small piece of knowledge someone shares today could be the cornerstone of a huge concept that changes the world tomorrow". Recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is the only Dynamics NAV MVP in New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Specialities: » Development Languages: AL, C/AL, » ERP: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 to Business Central » Databases: MS SQL » Other: SANA, LS Retail

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Error: Configuration file required – Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Double click on the Dynamics NAV icon but open up this window?  This error message pop up mainly because Microsoft Dynamics NAV cannot find the “ClientUserSettings.config” in the client computer. Most of the time Microsoft Dynamics NAV create this file itself and very rarely Microsoft Dynamics NAV will not be able create the file for you. In those kind …

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Few more weeks to go : Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 & Roadmap

In few weeks time Microsoft will release the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017. Few months ago Microsoft has published the latest Dynamics NAV roadmap and from that we can get a glimpse of what will be on next version.  You can check more related videos from the “World Partner Conference“. As  mention in his blog post following are …

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Fatal Error During Installation – Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Today I tried to install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 to my computer to test few objects and soon after I click on install I got below error message. This is not a new error message and I thought why not share it in my blog.  As the error message says by itself, this is due …

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The profile owner has not been specified. Contact your system administrator – Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Check my previous two blog posts on how to Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RTC Client in Configuration Mode.  Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client in Configuration Mode – Part 01 Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client in Configuration Mode – Part 02 Once you tried to open the RTC in the configuration …

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September 2016 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for September 2016: Please refer below links for more information. CU 11 for Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 46773) CU 23 for Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 46765) CU 35 for Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (Build 46774) CU 42 for Dynamics NAV 2013 (Build 46772) It is always good to update …

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Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client in Configuration Mode – Part 02

If you didn’t went through the first part of the blog here is the link to it. If you have read the first part of the blog of “Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client in Configuration Mode” and paid very close attention to the second command of it, you might have seen something interesting. …

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Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client in Configuration Mode – Part 01

In order to configure a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Profile, administrator should open the profile in the configuration mode. It will allow the admin to remover the unwanted pages, action buttons from the user’s interface and make it more user role specific. This may sound bit old school to many of the people, but still this will be very useful …

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Invalid License Data – Visual Studio

If you tried to open the report designer using Visual Studio and got the below error?  Error it self says “Reinstall is required”, but it never says what you need to reinstall. Is it Microsoft Visual Studio, or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell? I tried re-installing Microsoft Visual Studio, then tried installing Visual Studio 2010 Shell, …

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Allow users to filter random records in Dynamics NAV

Most of the users would like to select few records (No commonly shared value) and filter them to a single view. I have seen many of the users use export to excel option available in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and then filter the records from excel so that they can compare them freely.  What if we …

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August 2016 Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft has published new Cumulative Updates for August 2016: Please refer below links for more information.CU 10 – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 (Build 46621)CU 22 – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 (Build 46580)CU 34 – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 (Build 46577)CU 41 – Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Build 46576) It is always good to update …

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