Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Creating a profile object

A profile object allows you to define the user experience (main page) of a particular user profile. You can create a profile object with the AL Language extension by using the tprofile snippet.

A profile object is defined as in the following example:

profile "SALES MANAGER"{  Caption = 'Sales Manager';  ProfileDescription = 'Functionality for sales managers';  RoleCenter = 9005;  Enabled = false;}

Here, we have defined a profile called Sales Manager, which uses the RoleCenter page with ID = 9005 (standard Sales Manager role center object in Dynamics 365 Business Central).

To deploy a profile object from your extension, I recommend creating a Profile folder in your AL project and, inside that folder, placing all the  ...