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View a User’s Access Summary

View a User’s Access Summary

To make managing permissions and troubleshooting access easier, in the User Access Summary, you can see a consolidated view of a user’s key details and assigned permissions and tabs. You can also manage the user’s assigned permission sets, permission set groups, public groups, and queues.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: all editions
User Permissions Needed
To view a user’s User Access Summary: View Setup and Configuration
Note
Note In some situations, updates to the user’s assignments aren’t displayed immediately. To make sure you have the most up-to-date data, refresh the summary page in your browser.

The user can be assigned other access features not listed in this summary.

  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Users, and then select Users.
  2. Select a user.
  3. Click View Summary. To make sure you have the most up-to-date data, refresh the summary page in your browser.
    The user access summary page, with both the User Details and User Access Summary sections displayed.

    The standard and custom user fields that are displayed match the User Details section of the user’s assigned user profile page layout.

  4. Review the user’s assigned permissions and tabs. To see which profile, permission sets, or permission set groups are granting the user a specific permission, click the permission's row-level action, and then click Access Granted By.
    You can also view and update the permission sets, permission set groups, public groups, and queues that the user is added to.
    Note
    Note In the Field Permissions tab, only fields whose access can be configured are displayed. Fields that don’t support field-level security aren’t displayed.
 
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