How-To “Hide the Page Inspection or Zoom for users” in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

Scenario:

• Users by default are allowed to access the data of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central (BC) which they can view the table or check the values which we some installations may not need.

Before Changes:

• Users can access the said details either by pressing the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F1] on their keyboard or by going to ‘Help and Support’ -> ‘Inspect Pages and Data’
• The screen looks something like shown below:

Solution:

• Create a new Permission Set in BC as shown below:¹

Type	Object Type	Object ID	Object Name
Exclude	System	1350	Run Table
Exclude	System	5330	Tools, Zoom

Permissions under new Permission Set create.

• Assign the permissions to the users and ask them to re-login in BC.

After Changes:

• Now ask users to re-login to BC and they will not see the data under Page Inspection. The screen would look like below:

References:

1. Define Granular Permissions – Business Central | Microsoft Learn ↩︎