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[Jesse Reyna]

We are currently trying to secure some information displayed in a Factbox.  We do not employ any security products like NAV Easy Security at this time but will be in the future.  How could I accomplish this?  I am looking to make the changes in Posted Packages.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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Jesse Reyna
Manager of Information Technology
Westinghouse Lighting Corporation
Philadelphia PA
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[Kris Ruyeras]

Hello Jesse,

What are you trying to accomplish with the factbox? Are you wanting to prevent them from seeing Posted Packages and/or prevent them from clicking on it?

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Kristoffer Ruyeras
Director of Business Technology
Bellegrove Medical Supply
Redmond, WA
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[Jesse Reyna]

Hey Kris,

There are certain fields that my company is wishing to hide from the Posted Package Shipping Charge FactBox. I was trying to figure if that could be done, so that from a global perspective users that should not be able to can not view them.

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Jesse Reyna
Manager of Information Technology
Westinghouse Lighting Corporation
Philadelphia PA
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[Kris Ruyeras]

Hello Jesse,

If that’s the case and you’re in a NAV version using “RTC”, you should be able to modify the Fact Boxes of what is shown. Of course you’ll have to create profiles and set that profile by disabling Personalization and then assigning users to a specific one. That would be the easiest way to hide those.

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Kristoffer Ruyeras
Director of Business Technology
Bellegrove Medical Supply
Redmond, WA
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[Ben Baxter]

Kris’s suggestion is spot on.  You will want to create two similar Profiles, one with the restricted view.

Then on the restricted Profile, either remove the Fact Box through configuration, and disable personalization, or separate the fields into two Fact Boxes, one for everyone and one with restricted data.  Again configuring the restricted Fact Box off of the restricted Profile and disabling personalization.

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Ben Baxter
Consultant
Accent Software, Inc.
Carmel IN
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[Matt Traxinger]

Seems like overkill to disable personalization for the whole system just to hide data from one little factbox. Crippling one of the major features of NAV to do this doesn’t seem like the right approach, although I understand not doing a customization too. This is a customization that can be done in such a way that it would not cause a conflict during an object merge, though. Especially on NAV 2016 and up.

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Matt Traxinger
NAV Developer
ArcherPoint Inc.
San Antonio TX
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[Jason Wilder]

If you are in NAV 2016 you can use the AccessByPermission property to hide/show a field based on if they have permission to a certain object.  Seems like this would be the easiest way to go.  Small customization, not a big deal.

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Jason Wilder
Senior Application Developer
Stonewall Kitchen
York ME
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[Ben Baxter]

When you disable personalization, you are doing it at the Profile level to only the specific profile.  You are not restricting everyone, just the Users that you do not want to make changes.  Yet another reason to create a new profile for this request is to limit the number of effected Users.

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Ben Baxter
Consultant
Accent Software, Inc.
Carmel IN
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[Matt Traxinger]

Exactly, with that approach that user / anyone who uses that profile can no longer use one of the major efficiency features of NAV….all to limit one factbox. It certainly will work, but it doesn’t make sense to me to control permissions through personalization restriction. They are two completely different things.

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Matt Traxinger
NAV Developer
ArcherPoint Inc.
San Antonio TX
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[Kris Ruyeras]

Jesse,

You definitely have options as noted by developers here that would and could meet your requirements. So this will depend on what your expectations will be.

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Kristoffer Ruyeras
Director of Business Technology
Bellegrove Medical Supply
Redmond, WA
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