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migrating profiles from NAV 2016 to BC13

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Posted on by Paulrainford 5

Can any one help? I did try searching but could not find it discussed before.


We have 30 odd user profiles customised to a high degree in NAV 2016 and when viewing them now in BC13 we have a lot of differences. Mainly around columns showing when they were removed or different order of columns/fact boxes. We also have a lot of extra pages added but I can handle that I think fairly quickly.

Surely there is a way to fix these? I really don't want to waste 2 weeks of my life getting them correct again. I did that 3 years ago!

Thanks

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    Bilal Haider 487 on at

    Hi,

    Try Import/Export Profiles feature. If its On-Prem then hopefully this will work.

    Regards,

    Bilal

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    Paulrainford 5 on at

    Thanks Bilal. It is On-Prem. I already had this idea but unfortunately the profiles had the same issue when I tried that.

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    raelhefn Microsoft Employee on at

    You can't use the import functionality to migrate legacy profiles from Dynamics NAV or early versions of Business Central.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../devenv-design-profiles-using-client

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