Get more information about effective permissions

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Business value

It's important that Business Central grant the right level of access to business data, so admins need to be able to verify the permissions that their users have. To give administrators deeper insight, the Effective Permissions page shows the source of permissions and the applied security filters.

Granting the right level of access to business data is important for Business Central administrators. To ensure that they've done so, administrators use the Effective Permissions page to view the permissions they've granted to each user.

Feature details

Users can only see their own permissions in the Effective Permissions page. You can view other users' effective permissions only if you're assigned to the SECURITY or SUPER permissions. Otherwise, if you try to access the effective permissions assigned to another user, an error message displays.

The Effective Permissions page offers additional information about the source of each permission. For example, whether the source is a security group, or a permission is inherited. The page also contains a column where administrators can review the security filters that are applied.

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See also

Assign Permissions to Users and Groups (docs)