Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience Changes the Way You Work
Enable Dev Hub Features in Your Org
Free Limited Access License
Enable Unlocked and Second-Generation Managed Packaging
Enable Source Tracking in Sandboxes
Enable Einstein Features
Add Salesforce DX Users
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Sandboxes
Track Changes Between Your Project and Org
Development
Build and Release Your App
First-Generation Managed Packages
Second-Generation Managed Packages
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Free Limited Access License

Looking to use Dev Hub in your production or business org but don’t have a Salesforce user license? Look no further. The Salesforce Limited Access - Free license lets developers access Dev Hub to create and manage scratch orgs. In addition to this functionality, you can access Chatter to collaborate with other users.

The main purpose of this license is to enable developers to create scratch orgs. Your Salesforce admin has to grant appropriate permissions to the Dev Hub objects (ScratchOrgInfo, ActiveScratchOrg, and NamespaceRegistry) to get you started. However, Salesforce objects such as Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities aren’t accessible via this license.

Contact your Salesforce account executive to request the Free Limited Access License.

To use Org Shape for Scratch Orgs or Scratch Org Snapshots (pilot), be sure to assign the Salesforce or Salesforce Platform user license. This license isn’t supported at this time.

Important

To give full access to the Dev Hub org, create a permission set that contains these permissions.

  • Object Settings > Scratch Org Info > Read, Create, and Delete
  • Object Settings > Active Scratch Org > Read and Delete
  • Object Settings > Namespace Registry > Read (to use a linked namespace in a scratch org)

For more information, see Add Salesforce DX Users. Salesforce administrators can upgrade a Salesforce Limited Access - Free license to a standard Salesforce license at any time.

This license doesn’t provide access to some Salesforce CLI commands, such as force:limits:api:display. Contact your Salesforce admin for API limits information.

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