Profiles

Watch the video to see how you can configure profiles.

Your org includes several standard profiles where you can edit a limited number of settings. With editions that contain custom profiles, you can edit all permissions and settings except the user license. In Contact Manager and Group Edition orgs, you can assign standard profiles to your users, but you can’t view or edit the standard profiles, and you can’t create custom profiles.

Every profile belongs to exactly one user license type.

Note When possible, assign users the Minimum Access - Salesforce profile, or a clone of it if you’re modifying the included default settings for different users. Then, use permission sets and permission set groups to grant users only the permissions that they require. Apply permission sets to users based on the tasks that they do rather than their job title. 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. For more information, see Permission Sets in Salesforce Help.

• Standard Profiles
  Every Salesforce org includes standard profiles that you can assign to users. Edits to standard profiles are limited to certain settings.
• Create and Edit Profile List Views
  If enhanced profile list views are enabled for your organization, you can create profile list views to view a set of profiles with the fields that you choose. For example, you can create a list view of all profiles with Modify All Data enabled.
• Edit Multiple Profiles with Profile List Views
  If enhanced profile list views are enabled for your organization, you can change permissions in up to 200 profiles directly from the list view, without accessing individual profile pages.
• Create or Clone Profiles
  Create custom profiles using the API, or clone existing profiles and customize them to fit your business’s needs.
• View a Profile's Assigned Users
  View and manage all users assigned to a profile from the profile’s overview page.
• Assign a Default Experience to a User Profile
  Assign a default experience to a user profile to associate that profile with a specific community, portal, or site. Any links in the notification lead back to the default experience—no more news from nowhere.
• Configure Default Settings in Profiles
  Configure assigned apps, record types, page layouts, and other default settings in profiles so that assigned users can see the data and apps required to complete their work.
• Search in the Enhanced Profile User Interface
  To locate an object, tab, permission, or setting name on a profile page, type at least three consecutive letters in the Find Settings... box. As you type, suggestions for results that match your search terms appear in a list. Click an item in the list to go to its settings page.