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
Partner Licensing Platform (Developer Preview)
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Free Limited Access License

Request a Salesforce Limited Access - Free license to provide accounts to non-admin users in your production org, when these users require access to only a specific app, feature, or setting. Standard Salesforce objects such as Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities aren’t accessible with this license.

Contact your Salesforce account executive to request this license. A Salesforce admin can upgrade a Salesforce Limited Access - Free license to a standard Salesforce license at any time.

Scratch Org Creation and Second-Generation Packages

To create scratch orgs and second-generation packages, developers require access to the Dev Hub org, which is often your production org. A Salesforce admin can then grant appropriate permissions to the Dev Hub objects (ScratchOrgInfo, ActiveScratchOrg, and NamespaceRegistry).

To give developers appropriate 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)
To provide users with the ability to create second-generation packages and package versions, the permission set must also contain:
  • System Permissions > Create and Update Second-Generation Packages

For more information, see Salesforce DX Developer Guide: Add Salesforce DX Users.

DevOps Center

DevOps Center is installed as a managed package. Most team members, such as builders and developers, don’t need to install and configure DevOps Center. You can provide these team members minimum access to the org where DevOps Center is installed by assigning them this license and the Limited Access User profile.

See Salesforce Help: Assign the DevOps Center Permission Sets

Features Not Currently Supported

  • To use Org Shape for Scratch Orgs or Scratch Org Snapshots (pilot), be sure to assign the Salesforce user license. The Salesforce Limited Access - Free license isn’t supported at this time.
  • The Salesforce Limited Access - Free license doesn’t provide access to some Salesforce CLI commands, such as force:limits:api:display. Contact your Salesforce admin for API limits information.