Salesforce Profiles

Profiles specify how users can access objects and data, and he can do within the application. When you create users, you assign a profile to each one or we can say Set of permissions called a profile.

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·  A profile controls “Object permissions, Field permissions, App settings, Tab settings, Apex class access, Visual force page access, Login hours & Login IP ranges.

·     You can define profiles by user’s job function. For example System Administrator, Developer, Sales Representative.

·     A profile can be assigned to many users, but a user can work according to a single profile at a time.

     We can create as many profile as we want it depends on number of licences Once a profile is created user cannot delete them he can only deactivate them.

Profiles in Salesforce:

1. Standard profiles: By default salesforce provide some standard profiles. These are as follows:

1.    Read Only

2.    Standard User

3.    Marketing User

4.    Contract Manager

5.    Solution Manager 

6.    System Administrator. 

  Each of these standard profile includes default set of permissions for all of the standard objects available on the platform.

  2. Custom Profiles: Custom profile are those which we can create according to our need. If we want we can delete them but if that profile is assigned to any user in that case first we need to remove that profile from the user after we can delete that. .

Navigation to access profiles: setup -> Administer -> Manage users -> Profiles