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New Business Unit/Team Cannot See Assigned Accounts/Records

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Hello!

I recently inherited a Dynamics 365 environment and am new to the system.  I'm working on a new requirement to only allow certain users to view certain accounts.  IE:

Person A can only see account A
Person B can only see account B

This environment has a single business unit accessing a custom entity.  After doing research, I've made the following changes:

  • Created a new Business Unit as a child of the original
  • Assigned user A to the new business unit
  • Created and set user A with a single security role that only has Business Unit access the custom entity
  • Assigned account A to this new business unit's default team

Unfortunately, all views for this user are showing as empty.  Here are some tests I've run to try and resolve the issue:

  • Set all of the teams to have no security roles to avoid any permission crossover. 
  • Tried making a team outside of the default BU team with the same results 
  • Tried to individually assign a record to user A, which also does not show up in any view.  Not sure why any records fail to show for this user.
  • Set the security role for the user to global on the entity in question and that of course shows everything.  Anything less than global will not display any records for this user no matter where they are. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! 

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  • Aeayx Profile Picture
    15 on at
    RE: New Business Unit/Team Cannot See Assigned Accounts/Records

    The security role is set across the board to Business Unit, and there are no field security settings, so it wasn't there unfortunately.  

    I tried creating a record from user A and it showed up.  Looking at the records, they were all created and assigned to the administrator (which is why global showed everything).  Will have to work on correcting this.  

    Thanks for the help!  

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    TylerS.Dev Profile Picture
    725 on at
    RE: New Business Unit/Team Cannot See Assigned Accounts/Records

    If granting global admin allow the user to view it, then it is likely it is security related.

    I would double check security role you assigned to make sure business unit key is granted to read and not just on create or others for this role.

    I would also check field security profile, and see if the view you have uses fields that is governed by field security (you can access this by going to Setting->Security->Field Security Profiles

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