Profile

Represents a profile, which defines a set of permissions to perform different operations, such as querying, adding, updating, or deleting information.

Supported Calls

delete(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), update()

Special Access Rules

Customer Portal users can't access this object.
Partner portal users can’t access this object.

Fields

Field	Details
Description	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Description of the profile.
IsSsoEnabled	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description If `true`, users assigned to this profile can delegate username and password authentication to a corporate database instead of the user database.
LastReferencedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed a record related to this profile. Available in API version 29.0 and later.
LastViewedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this profile. Available in API version 29.0 and later.
Name	Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description The name of the profile.
Permissions`PermissionName`	Type boolean Properties Filter, Update Description One field for each permission. If `true`, users assigned to this profile have the named permission. The number of fields varies depending on the permissions for the organization and license type. To get a list of available permissions in the SOAP API, use `describeSObjects()`. Tip
UserLicenseId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description ID of the UserLicense associated with this profile.
UserType	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description The category of user license. Each UserType is associated with one or more UserLicense records. Each UserLicense is associated with one or more profiles. In API version 10.0 and later, valid values include: Standard: user license. This user type also includes Salesforce Platform and Salesforce Platform One user licenses. Label is Standard. PowerPartner: User whose access is limited because he or she is a partner and typically accesses the application through a partner portal or community. Label is Partner. CSPLitePortal: user whose access is limited because he or she is an organization's customer and accesses the application through aCustomer Portal or community. Label is High Volume Portal. CustomerSuccess: user whose access is limited because he or she is an organization's customer and accesses the application through a Customer Portal. Label is Customer Portal User. PowerCustomerSuccess: user whose access is limited because he or she is an organization's customer and accesses the application through a Customer Portal. Label is Customer Portal Manager. Users with this license type can view and edit data they directly own or data owned by or shared with users below them in the Customer Portal role hierarchy. CsnOnly: user whose access to the application is limited to Chatter. This user type includes Chatter Free and Chatter moderator users. Label is Chatter Free. UserType replaces LicenseType, which is unavailable as of API version 10.0. In API versions 8.0 and 9.0 LicenseType is still available with the following valid values: AUL: Force.com user license. Label is Apex Platform. AUL1: Force.com user license with only one user. Label is Apex Platform One. Salesforce: Salesforce user license. Label is Salesforce. PackageManager: user who can create and work with managed packages for Force.com AppExchange. Label is Package Manager. PRM: user whose access is limited because he or she is a partner and typically accesses the application through a partner portal. Label is Partner. CustomerUser: user whose access is limited because he or she is an organization's customer and accesses the application through a Customer Portal. Label is Customer Portal User. CustomerManager: user whose access is limited because he or she is an organization's customer and accesses the application through a Customer Portal. Label is Customer Portal Manager. Users with this license type can view and edit data they directly own or data owned by or shared with users below them in the Customer Portal role hierarchy.

Usage

Use the Profile object to query the set of currently configured user profiles in your organization. Your client application can use Profile objects to obtain valid profile IDs for use when querying or modifying users through the API.

In the user interface, profiles can be used to assign user licenses from specific pools (Force.com Platform user license or Salesforce user license, for example). If a user is assigned to a profile with a different license type, the number of available licenses in the old license type pool increases, one per user changed, and decreases by the same amount in the new license type pool.

Object Reference for Salesforce and Force.com

Profile

Supported Calls

Special Access Rules

Fields

Usage