User Permissions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

The user permissions available vary according to which edition you have.

Some user permissions have dependencies with other user permissions or object permissions. When you save a permission set or profile, Salesforce evaluates whether dependent permissions must be enabled as part of the current updates being made or from previous changes.

You can enable user permissions in permission sets and custom profiles. In permission sets and the enhanced profile user interface, these permissions—as well as their descriptions—are listed in the App Permissions or System Permissions pages. In the original profile user interface, user permissions are listed under Administrative Permissions and General User Permissions.

We recommend that you use permission sets and permission set groups to manage your users’ permissions. Because you can reuse smaller permission set building blocks, you can avoid creating dozens or even hundreds of profiles for each user and job function.

To view permissions and their descriptions, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Permission Sets, and then select Permission Sets, then select or create a permission set. Then from the Permission Set Overview page, click App Permissions or System Permissions.