Field-level security
Until now, we have talked about record-level access; it refers to governing which records are accessible by users, including the OWD and sharing rule. Now we will go a step further and discuss how we can hide key fields from a group of users. Data is very important for any organization; it may contain highly sensitive information, such as bank account details. Salesforce allows you to use field-level security to make fields hidden or read only for a specific profile. There are three ways to set field-level security in Salesforce:
- From an object field
- From a profile
- Field accessibility
From an object field
A business scenario: Alok Sinfal is working as system administrator at Universal Containers. His manager Brigette Hyacinth
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