After you enable person accounts in your org, and if you’ve installed the Health
Cloud managed package, update the Use Person Accounts custom setting so that you can use
person accounts to represent patients and members in Health Cloud. Then assign the Person
Account record type to user profiles to fully enable person accounts.
Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Health Cloud
or Life Sciences Cloud
Note Enable Person Accounts in your org before updating this setting.
From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Custom
Settings, and then select Custom
Settings.
In the list of custom settings, click Manage next to the
Use Person Account custom settings.
Click Edit next to Use Person Account.
Select Enable.
Save your changes.
From Setup, find and select Profiles, and then assign
the Person Account record type to each user profile.
In the Record Type Settings for each profile, find and edit the
Accounts entity.
Move the Person Account record type from Available Record Types to
Selected Record Types.
In the Business Account and Person Account Default Record Types
section, verify the Person Account Default Record Type dropdown has
Person Account selected, and then verify the Business Account Default
Record Type dropdown has a value other than --Master-- selected.
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