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Prevent deletion of customer accounts in Business Central?

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Is there a way to prevent the deletion of customer accounts on Business Central. As a rule we never delete any off and mark at closed to keep the historical reference.

Somehow an employee has accidently deleted some off as I have found some records on our website that are not on Business Central and want to prevent this from happening again.

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    Vaishnavi J Profile Picture
    3,096 on at

    Hi,

    there are 2 ways to do so.

    1. Restrict the users to delete the customer record via code.

    Create a Boolean field in user setup page. if the boolean is checked mark then the user is allowed to delete.

    you can use event subscriber 

    [EventSubscriber(ObjectType::Page, Page::"Customer Card", 'OnDeleteRecordEvent', '',true , true)]
       local procedure DeleteCustomerCheck(var Rec: Record Customer)

       var

          Rec_UserSetup: Record "User Setup";

       begin

           if Rec.IsTemporary then

               exit;

          Rec_UserSetup.GET(USERID);

           if not Rec_UserSetup.Allowed Deletion then

               Error('You do not have permission to delete the Customer.');

       end;

    2. Or you can remove the delete permission from the permission sets given to the users.

    If my answer was helpful to you, please verify it so that other users know it worked. Thank you very much

  • BCgs Profile Picture
    470 on at

    Do you have any further details on the "Create a Boolean field in user setup page" any instructions or tutorials would be great.

    The permissions are set as Super so I don't think I can override the permission set. It is only the deletion of customers we need to prevent

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    Vaishnavi J Profile Picture
    3,096 on at

    Hi

    Create a table extension of User Setup page

    1.

    tableextension 50001 UserSetupExt extends "User Setup"
    {
        fields
        {
            field(50000;"Allowed Deleteion"; Boolean)
            {
                Caption = 'Allowed Deletion';
                DataClassification = CustomerContent;
            }
    }
    }
    2. then create a page extension for the user setup page.
    pageextension 50002 UserSetupExt extends "User Setup"
    {
        layout
        {
            addlast(Control1)
            {
                field(Allowed Deletion; Rec.Allowed Deletion)
                {
                    ApplicationArea = All;
                    Caption = 'Allowed Deletion';
                }
            }
         }
    }
    3. Then use the codeunit object add the event subscriber OnDeleteEvent and the logic to check who can delete customer record or not.

    If my answer was helpful to you, please verify it so that other users know it worked. Thank you very much

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