How Do I: Enable Personalization in Business Central On Premises?

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After you have installed Business Central On Premises, as explained in the previous blog post, you will notice that Personalization is not enabled:

I don’t know why, if this is by design or not, but you can enable it as follows.

First, find your navsettings.json file:

Here you can find more info on modifying the navsettings.json file:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/configuring-microsoft-dynamics-nav-web-client-by-modifying-the-web.config-file#WebClientSettingsFile

To enable Personalization, you need to add the following setting in the file:

,”PersonalizationEnabled”: “True”
Then you need to restart your Service Tier and Internet Information Server, open the Web Client again, and voila:
More information about personalization is available here:

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7 Thoughts on “How Do I: Enable Personalization in Business Central On Premises?”

  1. Simone Colombo on April 15, 2019 at 17:31 said:

    Great article, thanks a lot.
    Anyhow it’s not needed to restart service tier but only IIS or just application pool on IIS

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  2. Stijn B on April 28, 2019 at 18:12 said:

    Hello,

    I would expect it would the other way around.
    Design by default disabled & Personalize enabled.
    Is there a way to disable Design? I don’t want end-users creating a ton of extensions…

    Thanx

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    • srenders on April 28, 2019 at 19:57 said:

      I would also expect that. I really don’t like the design feature for users. Unfortunately I don’t know the setting to turn off design…

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      • Marcel on October 31, 2019 at 09:26 said:

        You can disable the design-feature also in the “navsettings.json”-file with the following command:

        “Designer”: “false”

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  3. Sara on July 19, 2019 at 10:55 said:

    Hi, Steven,

    I have installed D365 Business Central CU01 and I tried to show Personalization button by following the instructions above. Unfortunately it haven’t work.
    Do you have additional info regarding this subject?

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    • srenders on July 19, 2019 at 11:06 said:

      Hi Sara,

      Please verify that your changes were saved in the navsettings.json file. Then see if you can restart IIS.
      That should solve the problem.

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  4. Sara on July 19, 2019 at 12:51 said:

    Hi, Steven,

    Thanks a lot for your answer.
    You were right. The file wasn’t saved. I didn’t press the button Save and I just closed the window (the code line was still there but… no effect)

    Thanks

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