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"Deactivate" shared party concept in global address book

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Posted on by Markus Kreuter

I do know the concept of the shared party within the global address book. However, our customer would like to /deactivate/ the logic because they don't want to have their customers/vendors shared via the party ID.

In fact, they would like to have one party for each vendor/customer. It doesn't matter if the same vendor/customer already exists in another legal entity because settings (e.g. language or contacts) shouldn't be shared.

I have found the parameter /use duplicate check/ in the system, this already helps because the popup window /use match/ disappears if a matching record is found.

However, it is still possible for the user to select an existing party ID and therefore share the account. Is there any other parameter to fully deactivate this concept?

Any information is appreciated.

Thanks!

BR
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BillurSamdancioglu 20,825 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi,

User is able not to select the party Id system offers but there isn't OOB functionality to enable the selection of the same.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 304,711 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Markus,

Is the requirement about not sharing per legal entity or should it also be prevented from having a customer and vendor in the same company not sharing the same party?

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Hana Xue Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi,
You may need to customize it Or wait and see if other users have any thoughts on this.
Best Regards,
Hana

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Guy Terry 28,977 Moderator on at

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There is no parameter to turn off the Global Address Book and the capability to link Parties to multiple vendors/customers etc.

Perhaps you can identify all the places where your users have access to merge Parties, add a vendor or customer to a different party or create a customer or vendor from an existing party and use security to remove access to those places.

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