Salesforce Security Guide

Salesforce Security Guide
Salesforce Security Basics
Authenticate Users
Give Users Access to Data
Control Who Sees What
User Permissions
Object Permissions
Custom Permissions
Profiles
Work in the Enhanced Profile User Interface Page
Work in the Original Profile Interface
Manage Profile Lists
Edit Multiple Profiles with Profile List Views
Create or Clone Profiles
Viewing a Profile's Assigned Users
View and Edit Tab Settings in Permission Sets and Profiles
Enable Custom Permissions in Profiles
Create a User Role
Share Objects and Fields
Strengthen Your Data's Security with Shield Platform Encryption
Monitoring Your Organization’s Security
Real-Time Event Monitoring
Security Guidelines for Apex and Visualforce Development
API End-of-Life
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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: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience
Available in: Essentials, 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, enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, then select 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 permissions from the profile, select them from the Enabled Custom Permissions list and click Remove.
  5. Click Save.