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Set Up Data Cloud for Salesforce Foundations
After the required products for Salesforce Foundations are added, you’re ready to set up Data Cloud for Salesforce Foundations.
Required Editions
| View supported editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To manage permission sets, access Data Cloud Setup, and create an identity resolution ruleset: | Assign Permission Sets AND View Setup and Configuration |
| To create an identity resolution ruleset and other Data Cloud features: | Appropriate Data Cloud permission set |
After you add required Salesforce Foundations products, Data Cloud is automatically provisioned. If auto provisioning isn’t available, manually turn on Data Cloud. If you encounter a Data Cloud error on the Salesforce Foundations setup page, go to Data Cloud Setup Home to review error messages and retry.
See Also
Configure Settings and Assign Permission Sets
- Assign yourself the Data Cloud Marketing Admin permission set.
- Associate the default data space to the Marketing Manager permission set.
- In Setup, search for Permission Sets and select Permission Sets.
- Select the Marketing Manager permission set.
- Under Apps, select Data Cloud Data Space Management.
- On Data Space Scopes, click Edit.
- Select the default data space to associate it to the permission set.
- Save your changes.
- Assign yourself the General User permission set group.
- If Quick Settings is turned on, see Assign Standard Permission Set Groups from Quick Settings.
- If you want to assign permissions from Setup, see Assign Permission Set Groups to Users.
Create an Identity Resolution Ruleset
This ruleset organizes and unifies your data for marketing sends and reporting.
See the Identity Resolution video from the Data Cloud video series.
- In the Marketing app, on the Identity Resolutions tab, click New.
- Select the default data space and select Individual for the Primary Data Model Object.
- Name the ruleset and save.
- On the identity resolution record, in the Match Rules section, click Configure.
- Select a default or custom match rule.
- Edit or add criteria for your match rule and save.Include Contact Point Email Address (Exact Normalized) in the match criteria. This is a critical step to help make sure your customer consent preferences are respected.
You can do more with identity resolution, such as creating rules to specify which objects and fields to reconcile. See Identity Resolution Reconciliation Rules. After you set up Data Cloud, see Set Up Marketing for Salesforce Foundations and Set Up Commerce for Salesforce Foundations

