Up to BC 14, profile configurations where shifted to the next version when performing upgrades, making it possible for us to offer light-weight and fast updates to customers.
With BC 2019 Wave II aka BC 15 profile configurations where deprecated and replaced by customizations which can be exported as extensions (cp. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2019wave2/dynamics365-business-central/customize-user-profile-without-writing-code).
While we are happy about the progress we see for the new tooling around customizations, we are missing a tool to easily migrate existing profile configurations to the "modern world".
Having a way to migrate profile configurations would enable us to deliver faster und cheaper migrations and we could achieve higher migration rates. That explicitly includes migrations OnPrem to current cloud implementations. So please consider to support migrations from profile configurations to modern customizations.
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We were told to just bite the bullet and re-build all of our profile configurations as profile customizations. Between the highly customized field order, factboxes, saved views and order and placement of action buttons, this is a massive undertaking.This is problematic because customization is limited just like configuration was. You needed to use a combination of the object designer and customization to achieve the look and feel you wanted.Getting all available fields was a good first step, but there are still lockdowns that require outside development that could or should be handled by customization alone (without the need of costly developers).Not all FastTabs can be moved aroundNot all FactBoxes can be movedNot all Actions can be movedActions that don't appear on the page, but could be there, cannot be added like fields canYou can't make your own fly-down or fly-out menus directly on the action bar
Category: Data Migrations
Hey Mike,
Do you have any update on the status? Long term roadmap does not sound very promissing. It has been already 3 version released since discontinuation of legacy profile configuration, and we still don't have tooling to migrate it.
Category: Data Migrations
Business Central Team (administrator)