Understanding Users, Profiles, and Role Centers

In Business Central that they need in their work.

Access to functionality is managed through user groups and profiles. As an administrator, you can add and remove users as part of your Business Central subscription, and you can assign users permissions through user groups.

Adding Users

To add users in Business Central online, your company's Office 365 administrator must first create the users in the Office 365 Admin Center. For more information, see Add Users to Office 365 for business.

Then, the administrator can assign permissions to each user and groups of users. For more information, see Managing Users and Permissions.

Users of on-premises deployments

For on-premises deployments of Business Central.

Profiles

The people in your company who have access to Business Central are all assigned a profile that gives them access to a Role Center.

Profiles are collections of Business Central that gives you quick access to your most important tasks and displays various insights and key performance indicators (KPIs) about your work.

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In the current version of Business Central online, you cannot add, edit, or delete profiles.

Configuration and Personalization

Users personalize the user interface of their personal version by customizing the user interface under their own user logon. This personalization can be deleted by the administrator. For more information, see Personalizing Your Workspace.

See Also

Managing Users and Permissions
Managing Personalization as an Administrator
Personalizing Your Workspace