Glossary
Role center
By Emil Björk · Microsoft business apps consultant, Gothenburg
Business Central's home-screen concept — a curated workspace per user role with cues, charts, and shortcuts to relevant work.
A role center in Business Central is the home-screen workspace a user opens to, curated for what their role does. Cues (numeric tiles), charts, action shortcuts, and notifications are tuned to the user's daily work — Accountant, Sales Order Processor, Production Planner, Warehouse Worker, IT Manager, Business Manager. Microsoft ships role centers for common roles; customers extend or build their own. Users personalize within their role center (hide cues, reorder shortcuts) without affecting other users; administrators save as tenant default to apply changes across all users of the role. Profiles assign role centers to user groups, and the Designer tool customises layouts without code.