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Profile customisation error

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Hi experts, 

I am facing this error when I try to customize a role centre page.

Profile configuration cannot be used on profiles that have the System scope.

Can anyone suggest a resolution?

Thank you. 

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  • Jyotsna NAV Profile Picture
    585 on at
    RE: Profile customisation error

    Hello Marco, 

    Thank you for the detailed explanation, this surely clear things up. 

    I'll update you know once things workout for me accordingly to the points you suggested. 

    Thanks a ton! 

  • Marco Mels Profile Picture
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    RE: Profile customisation error

    Hello,

    It does look like you are trying to customize a System profile. Since 15.0, we moved to a behavior where we only want to use Tenant profiles. That means that whatever setup code you have that creates profiles, it needs to be changed in one of these three ways:

    • Avoid to write any code and instead create a Profile AL object that will be deployed together with your application (info here) (THIS IS THE RECOMMENDED APPROACH)
    • Inserting into the Tenant Profile system table directly and keeping the App ID field to the null guid
    • Insert into the All Profile system table and setting the Scope field to Tenant and the App ID field to the null guid

     All other ways of creating profiles, including inserting into the Profile system table, are no longer supported (in fact, the Profile system table is marked as obsolete). 

    The reason why the built-in MS profiles do work is that they are in fact in the system scope (aka. In the Tenant Profile table). We did this move as part of 15.0 update, and we included some upgrade code to make sure that the existing references would not be broken by the upgrade.

    This is the reason why you ran into this issue. Your partner can hopefully assist you with this as long as you give the partner this compiled response.

    Thanks.

  • Jyotsna NAV Profile Picture
    585 on at
    RE: Profile customisation error

    Thank you, Marco,

    But then how can I modify these profile when I cannot customize it from application or use extensions? 

    The only I can see here is to use page extension for s role centre page. Is that it?

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
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    RE: Profile customisation error

    Hello,

    According to our docs unfortunately not. With this release, the way user profiles are defined, stored, and customized has undergone a major overhaul to unlock these capabilities for the cloud and for the modern clients.

    Thank you.

  • Jyotsna NAV Profile Picture
    585 on at
    RE: Profile customisation error

    Thank you for the reverts. 

    Actually yes, this error is been caused after upgrading from nav 2018 to Business central 15. 

    The pages that I am trying to customize are user defined pages and has the scope system.

    When I try to perform page customisation using the link that you mentioned, it gives me an error. 

    The only way to achieve customisation is by using extensions? Or is there a way to get rid of an error for these pages. 

    Thank you

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
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    RE: Profile customisation error

    Hello,

    This is discussed here:

    docs.microsoft.com/.../customize-user-profile-without-writing-code

    Thanks.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Profile customisation error

    Best Practices for customization:-

    Logo image: Use an SVG file type so that your logo appears at high resolution on all screens and at all zoom levels.

    Custom colors: Choose a Nav bar background color with a high contrast ratio with the Logo image that you picked. Choose a Text and icons color with a high contrast ratio to the Nav bar background color so that all text and icons are clearly visible.

    Accent color: Pick one that shows up well on a white or light background. The accent color is used to color some links and buttons that show up on a white or light background. For example, the accent color is used to color elements in a user's inbox and on their Office.com portal page.

    Contrast ratio: The recommended contrast ratio between text, icon, or button color and background color is 4.5:1.

    Hope this is helpful

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