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    Hello, I'm new to field-level security in CRM, but based on my basic understanding, CRM only allows OTB field-level security on custom fields, as opposed to managed fields.  Why did MS choose this approach for field-level security in CRM?  It seems like this approach creates a lot of additional work/overhead?

    Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:43 AM

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    Have you enabled any field for field security? "Field Permissions" displays fields that are enabled for field level security. If none of teh fields are enabled then nothing is shown.. you cannot add fields from this area.

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    • Proposed as answer by Mamatha Swamy Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:03 AM
    Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:02 AM
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    Thanks Mamatha.  I updated my original question.  Any idea why only *custom* fields can be secured with OTB field-level security?  Seems like this creates a lot of additional work for developers who want to implement field-level security?

    Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:15 AM
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    Hmmm... its a different question now! Will choose to post a new response rather than updating the earlier one :)

    Not very sure of why MS took that approach. Could be because implementing it on certain fields might break the OOB CRM functionality.

    Well, there are different approaches that people take to implement FLS for OOB fields. If you are okay with unsupported customizations then here is a simple way of doing it. http://weblogs.asp.net/gayanperera/archive/2010/11/02/crm-2011-field-level-security-for-oob-attributes.aspx

    This is being tracked as a suggestion to MS on connect. You could vote for it to get into the product in the upcoming versions

    https://connect.microsoft.com/dynamicssuggestions/feedback/details/650426/field-level-security-on-system-fields

    Hope this helps!

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    Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:04 AM