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Transfer Page personalisations from one Profile to other

Miljan Milosavljevic on 4/10/2020 2:40:40 PM
This one is extension of previously implemented functionality:
https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=5c6b793a-9533-ea11-8454-0003ff68ac7d

It would be great be able to transfer profile changes for a certain page from one profile to other.

Example: Profile is being changed for Sales Order List. We would like to be able to transfer changes for Sales Order List to other Profiles.
Category: General
STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator

Business Central Team (administrator)

Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.


Note that you can hack your way to a solution today, but this requires moderate knowledge of AL making it more suited to developers, and is not a scenario that Microsoft supports. Use it at own risk:
  1. Make sure you have made at least one page customization for your target profile.
  2. From the Profiles list, export profiles to a profile package file which will include page customizations.
  3. Open up the package file with any unzipping tool.
  4. Find the .al file for the page you customized for the source profile, and open it in Visual Studio Code or any text editor.
  5. Clone the PageCustomization object and give it a new unique name (if you don't do this, you will end up with multiple profiles pointing to precisely the same PageCustomization). 
  6. Find and open the .al file for the target profile and add a link to the cloned page customization object (see AL reference for help on Profile and PageCustomization objects)
  7. Save and now import the hacked profile package.
Best regards,
Mike Borg Cardona 
Program Manager, Microsoft