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newbie - licensing doubts

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I am a newbie self-learning NAV. Some of queries may be foolish ones, hoping to hear from you genius experts!
Really confused with licensing framework.

Queries,
1. I can identify two types of licenses - Customer license vs Partner license. Customer license is the license for ERP product and includes system functionality packages (starter/extended) and user access(full/limited user). Partner license is what a dev partner subscribes to. There is no relation among those two types, right?

2. Is a development partner able to make changes to any of the primitive objects (tables/codeunits) that come pre-installed with Starter/Extended pack. Is development partner allowed to modify/enhance the system functionality to any extent?

3. When a development partner registers with Microsoft, is it given a fixed set of object IDs that it will be using to create new objects? Would it be using same set of IDs for all the customers it would be implementing NAV? So, these IDs are globally unique - no two dev partners be having same IDs?

4. When I connect to RTC using my domain account,, I act as a Full User under Customer License (I can see my user set as full user under Departments=>administration=>General=>Users).  If I connect to NAV DEV ENVIRONMENT, I CAN design almost all the tables, but CAN'T any of the CODEUNITS. So, how does security work on DEV Environment???

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    TharangaC Profile Picture
    TharangaC 23,116 on at
    RE: newbie - licensing doubts

    Queries,

    1. There are no relationship between these two license.

    2. Correct. Partner can change the default object sets and also partner can creare new objects as well.

    3. All partners can use the object range of 50000..99999. There will be free objects comes with the NAV starter pack and however these objects can only use the object from 50000..59999. If partner use any object in the range of 60000+ then the customer has to purchase those objects separately from microsoft.

    If a partner has their own addon modules, then they can register their own object ranges. These are called as CfMD (Certified for Microsoft Dynamics).

    4. You can design all the tables but you will not be able to save any modifications to any object with the Customer License. You can only able to design codeunits with a developer license.

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    Aleksandar Totovic Profile Picture
    Aleksandar Totovic 16,765 on at
    RE: newbie - licensing doubts

    1. There is no relation between partner and customer license.

    2. Partner can change standard NAV objects.

    3. All partners can use objects on 50.000+ range and these objects can be used by customers when they buy these objects. Partners can register own object range as new module. This modules can be global or local available. If partners want to use these objects without charging, they must register this module as CfMD (Certified for Microsoft Dynamics).

    4. You cannot do it with Codeunits, because you use customer license. If you want to do it with your customer license, you have to expand your license with development solution module (it is quite expensive).

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