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Posted on by SarahF

We are finding that when creating a view only role that it is being associated with an Operations or Activity licence. How can we ensure that this role is only attracting a team member licence?

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Hana Xue Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi,
You can also check out this following blog which mentions that some menu items have an operational level license requirement as the ViewUserLicense parameter, which forces this "read-only" role to require an operational level license. Since the values of the ViewUserLicense/MaintainUserLicense values are set by Microsoft, there is no way to avoid this except excluding these menu items from the role.

https://alexdmeyer.com/2022/06/20/an-update-to-creating-a-read-only-role-for-d365fo-user-interface/
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Hana
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André Arnaud de Cal... 291,101 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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Hi Sarah,

Can you tell how the role is being build up? Did you include only standard privileges with read-only permissions? Did you add or change security objects?

What exact version of Dynamics 365 F&O are you running? There is a change in one of the more recent versions to ensure a read-permission will always be tagged as a team members SKU. You can read about it in this blog: Hidden Feature Flag Changing How User Licensing is Performed in D365FO - Alex Meyer (alexdmeyer.com)

A few weeks back, I have also seen another interesting scenario where the read permission was not working, then recreating some custom privileges with only granting read access did solve the issue. I will write a blog about this with mentioning the root cause in the coming weeks.