Use the Restricted Profile Cloning option to ensure that only permissions accessible to
your org are enabled when you clone profiles. If you don't enable this setting, all permissions
currently enabled in the source profile are also enabled for the cloned profile, even if your org
can't currently access them.
Required Editions
Available in: 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
To enable restricted profile cloning option:
Customize Application
From Setup, enter User in the Quick Find box, then select
User Management Settings.
Enable Restricted Profile Cloning.
When you clone profiles, only permissions currently allowed in your org are enabled for the
cloned profiles.
Example
Let’s say that you previously enabled Quotes in your org, so the Standard User profile has
access to the feature. If you disable Quotes, then object permissions related to the feature,
such as Quote, Products and Price Books, are no longer accessible from the Standard User
profile. If you clone the Standard User profile and enable Quotes again, both the Standard User
profile and the cloned profile have the relevant object permissions enabled.
You might intend to enable Quotes for both the Standard User profile and the cloned profile.
But cloned profiles typically have different purposes than the profiles they are cloned from. To
ensure that only the intended profiles receive permissions for specific functionality, enable
Restricted Profile Cloning.
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