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Edit Object Permissions in Profiles

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Edit Object Permissions in Profiles

Object permissions specify the type of access that users have to objects.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Essentials, Contact Manager, Professional, Group, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions
User Permissions Needed
To view object permissions: View Setup and Configuration
To edit object permissions:

Manage Profiles and Permission Sets

AND

Customize Application

We strongly recommend that you use permission sets and permission set groups instead of profiles to manage your users’ object permissions. 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. For more information, see Permissions Sets in Salesforce Help.

Note
Note As of Winter ’21 and later, editing standard objects on standard profiles is disabled.
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Profiles, and then select Profiles.
  2. Select a profile.
  3. Depending on which user interface you’re using, do one of the following.
    • In the enhanced profile user interface, in the Find Settings box, enter the name of the object and select it from the list. Click Edit, then scroll to the Object Permissions section.
    • In the original profile user interface, click Edit, then scroll to the Standard Object Permissions, Custom Object Permissions, or External Object Permissions section.
    Note
    Note If your org has more than 500 custom objects and you search for object settings in a profile, they don’t load. To see all objects, click Object Settings.
  4. Specify the object permissions.
  5. Click Save. In the enhanced profile user interface, if prompted, confirm any additional changes that must be made to keep permissions in alignment from previous changes.

You can see which profiles grant access to an object and edit this access for custom profiles in Object Manager. Select an object, and then click Object Access.

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