Object Reference for the Salesforce Platform
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Profile
Supported Calls
create(), delete(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), update(), upsert()
Special Access Rules
As of Summer ’20 and later, Customer Portal and Partner Portal users can’t access this object.
To view the following settings, assignments, and permissions for standard and custom objects in a specified profile, the View Setup and Configuration permission is required.- Client settings
- Field permissions
- Layout assignments
- Object permissions
- Permission dependencies
- Permission set tab settings
- Permission set group components
- Record types
Starting in Winter ’21, only users with correct permissions can view profile names other than their own if the Profile Filtering setting is enabled.
Fields
Usage
Use the Profile object to create custom profiles that start without any permissions enabled except for required permissions for the profile’s user license. While you can use the Profile Metadata type to deploy profiles, we recommend that you use the Profile SOAP API object because it allows you to create empty profiles.
You can also query the set of currently configured user profiles in your org. 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 (Lightning Platform user license or Salesforce user license, for example). When users are reassigned to profiles with different license types, the number of available licenses in the old license type pool increases, one per user assignment updated. Also, the number of available licenses decreases by the same amount in the new license type pool.