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Imagine this: You are a system administrator, and you are assigning (or you have assigned) specific permission sets for users in Business Central, rather than letting everyone act as a SUPER user. In the middle of the process, among other things, you are running into issues such as users having too many or not enough permissions to execute their daily tasks.
The reality of permissions management can be tricky.
Let’s delve into how to troubleshoot both missing permissions and excessive permissions in Business Central.
Missing Permissions
This issue usually comes in the form of an error message when users try to access a certain part of the system. For example, for a user that tries to access the Production BOMs list without the proper permission sets, they will run into the following error message:
Note that I underlined a few important tokens on this message ⚠️:
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In Red, it reads “TableData”. This is the Object Type that our user is lacking permission on. Object Types can be TableData, Table, Page,