See whether access to a field is restricted and at what level—record type, user
profile, or field.
Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Professional, Enterprise,
Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com
Editions
User Permissions
Needed
To view field accessibility:
Manage Profiles and Permission Sets
Navigate to the fields area of the appropriate object.
For Knowledge validation status picklists, from Setup, enter
Validation Statuses in the Quick
Find box, then select Validation
Statuses.
Select a field and click View Field Accessibility.
Confirm that the field access is correct for different profiles and record
types.
Hover over any field access setting to see whether the field is required, editable,
hidden, or read only based on the page layout or field-level security.
Click any field access setting to change it.
To verify field accessibility by a specific profile, record type, or field, from Setup,
enter Field Accessibility in the Quick Find
box, then select Field Accessibility. From this page, choose a
particular tab to view and then select whether you want to check access by profiles,
record types, or fields.
NoteIn this user interface, you can’t check access for permission sets.
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