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Edit Category Group Visibility
You can edit your data category visibility.
Required Editions
| Available in Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience. View supported editions. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view categories: | View Data Categories in Setup |
| To manage data categories: | Manage Data Categories AND View Data Categories in Setup |
| To assign default category groups: | Manage Data Categories |
| To modify category group visibility for users: | Manage Users |
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Go to the data category visibility settings page in Setup.
- For roles: enter Roles in the Quick Find box, then select Roles.
- For a role on the Customer Portal or partner portal: enter Users in the Quick Find box, then select Users.
- For permission sets: enter Permission Sets in the Quick Find box, then select Permission Sets.
- For profiles: enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, then select Profiles.
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Open a data category group for edit.
- For roles, in the Category Group Visibility Settings related list, click Edit next to the category group you want to modify.
- For permission sets and profiles:
- Click a permission set or profile name.
- Click Data Category Visibility.
- Click Edit next to the data category group you want to assign.
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Select a visibility setting.
- Click Save.
- Data Category Visibility Best Practices
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- When you create a category group, its visibility is defaulted to None.
- When you grant visibility to a category, you also grant visibility to its child and parent categories. If you want to give access to all categories in a branch of the category hierarchy, select the top-level category All Categories.
- Users who are not assigned to a category’s visibility by
role, permission set, or profile can only see uncategorized articles
and questions unless:
- The user has the “View all Data” permission.
- A category group has been made visible to all users on the Default Data Category Visibility page in Setup.
- For role-based visibility, Customer Portal users and partner portal users inherit the role assigned to their account managers by default. You can change the category group visibility settings for each portal role.
- Keep your category groups deactivated to set up your category hierarchy and assign visibility. Until you manually activate a category group, it does not display in Salesforce Knowledge or your answers community
- For role-based visibility, always set up data category visibility in a top-down approach from the top of the role hierarchy down to the bottom. Give the highest roles the most visibility and give subordinate roles reduced visibility.
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