What's the difference between ApplicationArea and Licence (Experience Tier) ?

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I was reading MS documentation on Business Central, and I wondered about : "what's the difference between ApplicationArea, a field property that can have Basic, Suite and All attributes, and the company Licence property, that can have Essential or Premium attributes, called Experience Tier ?"

Documentation "mixing" these two notions : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-extending-application-areas

When I develop, I have to add the preporty ApplicationArea into a new field to see this new field on my BC 16.0. I can attribute Basic or All to this property.

When I'm on the Page Company Information, at the bottom of it, in the FastTab User Experience, I can chose Essential or Premium attribute for my company. Not Basic, as in ApplicationArea.

So this make me think these are two distinct notions. But I don't really understand how different they are. Can you help me to understand please ?

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JAngle 152 on at

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Not sure if I will help or hinder but here we go...

Essential = everything apart from service mgt. and manufacturing

Premium = everything

ApplicationArea is then used to break this up into further detail. For Essential I can expect to have Basic, Suite and All. For Premium I will get an ApplicationArea of Service and Manufacturing. Check out some of the pages in the base app to get a better understanding of this:

Biggest question is what parts of the system are you developing for? Who is your audience? If it is users in the service and manufacturing area then a ApplicationArea for those makes sense. If it isn't then choose the options you have already determined.

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Hello,

License - Authorization for Pages, Role

Application Area - Where all the field(s) should be visible. Whether it should be in All, List, Report.

A User can have License for a Sales order but still cannot see a Field of Sales Order since you haven't applied it if you haven't included an Application Area.

License (Sales Order) is the first factor and then Application Area is the second factor (Lists in Sales Order module)

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Thanks a lot for your answers !

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