Profiles

Profiles are a way to customize the overall experience of a Salesforce user. Profiles are used to decide the data security by granting object-level permissions and field-level security that decides which fields need to be shown to which specific set of users. Profiles have certain rules or settings that we can set in order to grant or restrict a set of user permissions. The role decides record-level access in Salesforce and the profile decides what users can see in those records, as well as which actions the user can perform.

Different types of profiles

There are two types of profile in Salesforce:

  • Standard: Profiles which come with standard CRM when you purchase a new Salesforce organization. You cannot delete these profiles.
  • Custom: Custom ...

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