Limited User Concept

Yaduvanshi

Hi Developers..

I am trying to know that what functionality in NAV is restriceted through the Limited user licence.Means If I make any user as a limited then what are the functionalities or tasks he cannot do in nav.AS well as I am also looking for the solution that do I test this functionality using partner liscence making the user "Limited user" or test it out using the Limited user of one of my Client.

Please help me out that how I know the the restrictions in Limited user Licence

Yaduvanshi...

geordie

Since limited users cannot write more than 3 tables (without any chance to specify explicitly them), it's not easy to define exactly what users are prevented to do; I'd say that almost all the posting operations will not be possible.

tinoruijs

Would be nice to have a technical document regarding Limited Users.
Haven't searched yet, but anybody got such a document?

Thanks!

geordie

You can take this document as reference and take a look at Appendix A

tinoruijs

geordie wrote:

You can take this document as reference and take a look at Appendix A

Thanks. I've seen this document. It's helpful.
Would be nice to see if and how the 3 tables are defined.

Johannes_Nielsen

MS doesn't want to communicate about the Limited user because they dont want it to be a viable option.
Some genius invented the 3-table rule - not knowing a thing about how NAV works.

I've been in contact with MS on this, they speak about "Scenarios" the limited user will support, but are not able to provide any guidelines on this.
The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.

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Anyways, this thread says it clearly:
http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55072

The limited user licensing has never made any sense to me. A 3 table limit (outside of those allowed ones) seems arbitrary and not functionality-based. Just enabling a user to create sales quotes or orders could go over the limit depending on related tables being updated. I think it's safe to say, though, that if you will have users creating quotes or orders as well as updating a couple master records (customers and contacts), you'll be pretty clearly over the 3 table limit. Again, I think it's an arbitrary number with the implications half-thought out. We're generally quoting limited users for read-only users or users that will ONLY update a couple tables (customer, vendor, etc.), but as soon as the users get into any functional areas (creating sales or purchase documents or anything transactional) we're assuming they'll need full licenses. I don't want to have the fun conversation later with our prospects/clients that would be necessary otherwise. "Well, we THOUGHT you'd be okay with the 3 table limit, but it turns out you're updating 4 tables...so you need to pay $2,400 extra per user license now to upgrade those to full ones." Then again, some partners that lowball to land projects will close more details by "assuming" the cheap license will be fine early on, and then tackling that additional cost later once the client is fully committed to the implementation.