Profiles

1.  What is Profile?

A:   A profile is a collection of Settings and permissions that define how a user access records.

         A profile control a user’s permissions to perform different function in Salesforce

         A profile can have many users but a user can have only one profile.

2.  What we can control using profile?

Profile Control the following:

    1. PageLayouts: Which page layout the user Sees

    2. Field level Security: The  Fls restricts user’s access to view and edit fields.

    3. Custom Apps: Which Standard and Custom apps the user can view

    4. Tabs: Which tabs the user can view

    5.  RecordTypes: Which record types are available to the user.

     6. Login: The hours and Ip Addresses from which the user can Login

    7. Administrative: Generated and Object Permissions.

    8. Object Permission: The Object Permissions are divided into two sections, one for standard objects and another for custom objects.

Read, Create, Edit, Delete, View All, Modify All

Note: If we give view All and Modify All permissions at a profile Level, then the Security Controls will not Work, these permissions overrides the Security Controls.

3. How Many profiles we can assign to a single user?

A: Only One profile we can assign to a user.

4. Profiles are created based on ____?

 A: Profiles are created based on Licences.

5. How many types of profiles are there?

A:  There are two types of Profiles.

      1. Standard Profile and 2. Custom Profile

     These are Six Standard profiles:

               1. System Administrator

               2. Standard User

               3. Solution Manager

               4. Marketing User

               5. Contract Manager

               6. Read Only

      Standard profiles cannot be edited, but the Tab settings & app for standard profile are always          configurable

      Custom profiles are editable.

6. How to create a custom profile?

 A: First way of creating Custom Profile:

    Click on the Your Name à setup à Go to Administrator Setupà Click on Profiles à Click on the     “New Profile” button for creating a profile à Give Profile Name here

     Second way of creating a profile: Cloning the existing profile

     Click on “Clone” link for cloning the profile

    Give Profile Name here and click on “Save” button.

7. Can we deploy profiles from sandbox to Production?

 A: Yes, we can

8. Can we delete Standard Profiles?

A: No, we can’t

9. Can we delete Custom Profiles?

A:  Yes, we can delete

10. Which user can create a new profile?

A: System Admin user only can create a profile