Permission Dependencies and Alignment

Whenever you save a profile or permission set, Salesforce evaluates whether dependent permissions must be enabled as part of the current updates that you’re making or from previous changes. For example, you previously enabled the View All Records permission for a custom object in a permission set. You later created a master-detail field for this custom object, making Account the parent object. Because of this relationship, the View All Records permission must be enabled for Account as well. The next time you save this permission set, this Account object permission must be enabled to keep these permission dependencies in alignment and to fix the broken permission dependency.

In the enhanced profile user interface, updates that must be made to keep permission dependencies in alignment after previous changes are surfaced for your review.

In addition, for all profile and permission set alignment changes, whenever permissions are enabled to keep permission dependencies in alignment after previous changes, these edits are surfaced in the Setup Audit Trail.