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Create or Clone Profiles
Create custom profiles using the API, or clone existing profiles and customize them to fit your business’s needs.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions |
| Custom Profiles available in: Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To create profiles: | Manage Profiles and Permission Sets |
Tip If you clone profiles to enable certain permissions or access settings,
consider using permission sets. Because you can reuse smaller permission set building
blocks, you can avoid creating dozens or even hundreds of profiles for each user and job
function.
To create an empty custom profile without any base permissions included, use the Profile SOAP API object. On the Profile Setup page, you must first clone an existing profile to create a custom profile.
- To clone a profile, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Profiles, and then select Profiles.
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In the Profiles list page, do one of the following:
- Click New Profile, then select an existing profile that’s similar to the one you want to create.
- If enhanced profile list views are enabled, click Clone next to a profile that’s similar to the one you want to create.
- Click the name of a profile that’s similar to the one you want to create, then in the profile page, click Clone.
A new profile uses the same user license as the profile it was cloned from. - Enter a profile name.
- Click Save.
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