Security Implementation Guide

Security Overview
Securing and Sharing Data
User Permissions and Access
Revoking Permissions and Access
Profiles Overview
Enhanced Profile User Interface Overview
Working with Profiles in the Original Profile Interface
Viewing and Editing Tab Settings in Permission Sets and Profiles
Enable Custom Permissions in Profiles
Assigning Record Types and Page Layouts in the Enhanced Profile User Interface
Permission Sets
Object Permissions
Field-Level Security Overview
User Permissions
Desktop Client Access Overview
Setting Login Restrictions
Managing Salesforce Classic Permissions
About Organization-Wide Sharing Defaults
Setting Your Organization-Wide Sharing Defaults
External Organization-Wide Defaults Overview
Sharing Rules Overview
User Sharing Overview
Roles Overview
About Groups
Creating and Editing Groups
Group Member Types
Viewing All Users in a Group
Granting Access to Records
Configuring Salesforce Security Features
Enabling Single Sign-On
Monitoring Your Organization's Security
Security Tips for Apex and Visualforce Development
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Enable Custom Permissions in Profiles

Custom permissions give you a way to provide access to custom processes or apps. After you’ve created a custom permission and associated it with a process or app, you can enable the permission in profiles.
Available in: Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

In Group and Professional Edition organizations, you can’t create or edit custom permissions, but you can install them as part of a managed package.

User Permissions Needed
To enable custom permissions in profiles: “Manage Profiles and Permission Sets”
  1. From Setup, click Manage Users | Profiles.
  2. Select a profile.
  3. Depending on which user interface you’re using, do one of the following.
    • Enhanced profile user interface: Click Custom Permissions, and then click Edit.
    • Original profile user interface: In the Enabled Custom Permissions related list, click Edit.
  4. To enable custom permissions, select them from the Available Custom Permissions list and click Add. To remove custom permssions from the profile, select them from the Enabled Custom Permissions list and click Remove.
  5. Click Save.