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'User' Table and Security Roles

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Hi all,

 

I am building a model-driven app to keep, among other things, employee details. As suggested by Microsoft, when it came to add fields to an employee profile, I simple added them to the 'User' table. However, when we now try to restrict access through Security Roles, so that each user can only see their own data, we find that we can't lower the security access to the 'User' table below 'Business unit'. All other tables that I created from scratch, could easily be downgraded to 'User', so that users could only read their own data.

 

When I started working with this Dataverse database, the user list was already populated (and some fields are populated automatically when a new employee is added, I assume from MS 365 or something like that?).

Having a security role of 'System Costumizer', I find I can still see all information from other users, which I should not be able to.

I have thought about just creating a whole employee profile table from scratch just so that I can change the security settings, but I thought I'd come here and ask first, if there is a way to 'save' my 'Users' table 🙂.

 

Best regards,

RM

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    Drew Poggemann Profile Picture
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    Hi @RMarchante ,

     

    Yes, User entity is Read at Business Unit level and can not be restricted to User level.  In the past I have created an additional entity related to the User with sensitive data if needed and restricted this to the User level.  This gave me the ability to still utilize User as default functionality and restrict additional attributes at a more restricted level.

     

  • RMarchante Profile Picture
    11 on at

    Hi @dpoggemann ,

     

    Thanks for your reply. That helps (and explains!) a lot.

     

    Best,

    RM

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