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Expense app and security roles

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Hi.

There are confusion over what kind of access a user, not using the application, should be set up with.

If i understand the documentation it looks like its sufficiant with a user with only the role System user and Employee but i can not get it to work.

Any suggestions?

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  • NikolajSorensen Profile Picture
    1,784 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Hi Sanna.

    Can you share some details about what is not working for you?

    Do you receive an error or?

    BR

    Nikolaj 

  • Sanna Profile Picture
    12 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Hi Nikolaj

    I was told that to be able to use the Expence app a user must be set up with the Expense administrator security role. Since this is a Operation-license that sounds far from right.

    My problem is that i dont know if the app is a bit unstable or if im assigning the correct role.

    When im using a user with Employee only that user can post an expensereport (use imported in legal entity, connected to worker and have only the role employee) so i think i have figured that one out.

    If a user only should post through the app that role is sufficiant but should this role perhaps be assigned to all users that are using the app and not only workers that only using the app?

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    299,576 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Hi Sanna,

    The system user role is a mandatory role. When you then assign the Employee role, then indeed, this is sufficient for the user to open the app and maintain expenses.

    Before that, there is some setup required. E.g. the Employee should be linked as a person on the User information details.

    Can you clarify your last question?

  • Sanna Profile Picture
    12 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Hi.

    The system user is assigned to all users by default in the application.

    The background is that my company is implementing expense management and wish to register expenses and time towards projects. Some users will be working in dynamics and some users will only report through the app.

    During UAT the users, all of them, was set up with various roles, such as project time sheet user or sales clerk, and the ones that should report time had Expense administrator - a advice from the implementation partner.  They claim that they could report the expenses through the app.

    I noticed that the Expense admin app demand a operations license and came to the conclusion that this can not be the correct way to set this up....further more - I can not pass the test with my test user (set up as worker, connected employee to the user, set up as a project resourse etc - good to go)

    So im confused since i have a couple of users that claim that they could post expenses through the app during UAT with that setup.

    If I test i can post expenses with my testuser that ONLY have the role Employee, but wonder now if employee should be a mandatory role for all, the same as system user, or if the employee role should be assigned only to users not working in Dynamics and just register through the app?

    Im trying to figure out what other role allowed the posting of expenses since i have users that say that they was able to register, but since i wasnt involved in that testing there is unvclear to me what roles they had.

    But i think the main question is - should all users using the expense app and time sheet app have the role Employee assigned? Expense administrator can not be correct

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    NikolajSorensen Profile Picture
    1,784 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Hi Sanna.

    The Employee role should be able to satisfy your requirement of allowing people to register expenses through the app.

    The Expense Administrator role should not be assigned to users who only need to register expenses. The Expense Administrator role has access to areas not relevant for people who only need to do expense registration.

    BR

    Nikolaj

  • Sanna Profile Picture
    12 on at
    RE: Expense app and security roles

    Thank a lot.

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