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Role Center Behaviors

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This section describes in which areas the Role Center pages have a different behavior in the Business Central tablet client and the Business Central phone client compared to the Business Central Web client. This behavior has influence on how you will build your Role Center pages. For information about pages on tablets and phones in general, see Differences and Limitations When Developing Pages for the Business Central Mobile App.

Behavioral differences

Concept On Tablet/Phone
Tiles The app bar will automatically show tiles in two or three columns depending on the total number of tiles. A Role Center with many tiles only displays the tiles that fit vertically on the screen; other tiles are not shown and will not be available.

On the phone, the Home page will automatically show tiles in one or two columns depending on the total number of tiles and these can be scrolled.
Actions Actions that are added under an ActionContainer of the subtype Embedding are always shown in the navigation pane.
Actions Actions that are added under an ActionContainer of the subtype Sections are never shown, and cannot be accessed.

There is no ability to navigate to other Activity Groups as you can do in Business Central Web client. Because Activity Groups link to related functionality, the recommended workaround is to providing links to this functionality through their own Role Center as a separate entry point.
Actions - In the action pane, if the current profile has no configuration for the specific page, for example, if this was deleted, only promoted actions will be shown. If there are no promoted actions, any actions under Creation will be shown. If there are no Creation actions, an empty pane will be shown.
- If a page configuration exists, the Creation will be shown, together with any new groups that were created. Actions, even if they were renamed, which remain in their original group will not show until you move them to a custom group. This behavior differs from Business Central Web client which will always show them.
- When you add actions to the Home tab, it corresponds to setting the actions to Promoted. However, you can only do this with the configuration tooling if there is at least one Promoted action. Otherwise, the Home tab will never be available for customization.
Parts Available on the tablet.

On the phone, there is a limit to a total number of 5 parts that can be displayed. If you have multiple parts that contain cues, these are currently displayed as one part.

When building Role Centers it is recommended to avoid using the Group type to group the parts that make up the Role Center, and instead create all parts directly underneath the Container type. This will optimize the layout to dynamically switch from a 1 to 2 to 3 column layout and thereby fit more display targets.

Differences and Limitations When Developing Pages for the Business Central Mobile App