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Verify Access for a Particular Field

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Verify Access for a Particular Field

See whether access to a field is restricted and at what level—record type, user profile, or field.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions
User Permissions Needed
To view field accessibility: Manage Profiles and Permission Sets
  1. Navigate to the fields area of the appropriate object.
    For Knowledge validation status picklists, from Setup, enter Validation Statuses in the Quick Find box, then select Validation Statuses.
  2. Select a field and click View Field Accessibility.
  3. Confirm that the field access is correct for different profiles and record types.
  4. Hover over any field access setting to see whether the field is required, editable, hidden, or read only based on the page layout or field-level security.
  5. Click any field access setting to change it.

To verify field accessibility by a specific profile, record type, or field, from Setup, enter Field Accessibility in the Quick Find box, then select Field Accessibility. From this page, choose a particular tab to view and then select whether you want to check access by profiles, record types, or fields.

Note
Note In this user interface, you can’t check access for permission sets.

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