--- id: post/aardvarklabs-blog/2523 type: post title: Step-by-Step Guide to Page Customizations for Business Central in AL summary: Page customizations in Business Central allow developers to tailor page layouts to specific user profiles without modifying core functionality. The post demonstrates how to create page customization objects and profiles in AL code to hide fields and actions, hide financial data from data entry users, and deploy customizations as part of an extension. tier: community language: en tags: - page customization - profiles - user roles - al development - page extensions - layout design system: development review: state: reviewed by: opus at: "2026-10-08T01:59:37.312Z" flags: [] generated: at: "2026-10-08T01:26:53.141Z" pipeline: 0.2.0 prompts: extract-post: 1 input_hash: 4d2516c6545801f0a5a681d1d80053025e005ed487937c8e4bb8cd3ae76afb32 evidence: - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/ title: Step-by-Step Guide to Page Customizations for Business Central in AL date: "2025-09-05" commit: null t: null quote: null - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/ title: Step-by-Step Guide to Page Customizations for Business Central in AL date: "2025-09-05" commit: null t: null quote: You can't add triggers, procedures, or actions. This maintains parity with the in-browser Page Customization capabilities. - kind: blog url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/ title: Step-by-Step Guide to Page Customizations for Business Central in AL date: "2025-09-05" commit: null t: null quote: A customization can be listed in more than one profile. This allows you to reuse page customizations for several similar profiles. links: learn: [] objects: - object/page/22 - object/page/21 features: [] topics: [] localizations: [] videos: [] posts: [] guidelines: [] post_id: "2523" source_id: aardvarklabs-blog source_name: Aardvark Labs url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/ published_at: "2025-09-05T12:00:00.000Z" author: Marcel Chabot full_text: false words: 1090 quotes: - text: You can't add triggers, procedures, or actions. This maintains parity with the in-browser Page Customization capabilities. why_it_matters: Clarifies the fundamental limitation of page customizations and ensures consistent functionality across all users regardless of their profile - text: A customization can be listed in more than one profile. This allows you to reuse page customizations for several similar profiles. why_it_matters: Shows how to efficiently design customizations across multiple user roles without duplicating code code_objects_mentioned: - page Customer List - page Customer Card - other ARD_DataEntryCustomerList - other ARD_DataEntryCustomerCard - other ARD_DataEntry systems: - development - administration versions_mentioned: [] preview: embeddable: true frame_url: https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/embed/ image: https://aardvarklabs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/d0bfecb0-59c6-4f66-9248-b05c7ac0ef7b.jpeg image_alt: null image_w: 1024 image_h: 1024 site_name: Aardvark Labs favicon: https://aardvarklabs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/design-1.png?w=32 probed_at: "2026-10-07T11:51:37.236Z" --- # Step-by-Step Guide to Page Customizations for Business Central in AL [Read the post](https://aardvarklabs.blog/2025/09/05/step-by-step-guide-to-page-customizations-for-business-central-in-al/) · Aardvark Labs (Marcel Chabot) · 2025-09-05 · 1090 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus) > Page customizations in Business Central allow developers to tailor page layouts to specific user profiles without modifying core functionality. The post demonstrates how to create page customization objects and profiles in AL code to hide fields and actions, hide financial data from data entry users, and deploy customizations as part of an extension. ## Key points - Page customization objects in AL change a page's layout for a specific profile. Unlike page extensions they have no object ID, so a name prefix is important to avoid collisions. - They can hide, move and add fields and hide actions, but cannot add triggers, procedures or actions, matching what in-browser customization allows. - A profile object names a role center and lists its customizations, and users switch to it via My Settings and the Role field. - One customization can be referenced by several profiles for reuse. - Profiles and their customized pages can also be managed by hand from the Profiles (Roles) page. ## Quotes - "You can't add triggers, procedures, or actions. This maintains parity with the in-browser Page Customization capabilities." (Clarifies the fundamental limitation of page customizations and ensures consistent functionality across all users regardless of their profile) - "A customization can be listed in more than one profile. This allows you to reuse page customizations for several similar profiles." (Shows how to efficiently design customizations across multiple user roles without duplicating code) ## AL objects mentioned As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named. - [page 22 "Customer List"](../../objects/page/22.md) - [page 21 "Customer Card"](../../objects/page/21.md) - other "ARD_DataEntryCustomerList" - other "ARD_DataEntryCustomerCard" - other "ARD_DataEntry" ## Context - Features: Page customization objects, Profile-specific layouts, Field visibility control, Action visibility control, Field repositioning, Role center association Source: Aardvark Labs, community blog. 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