Activity Forums Salesforce® Discussions What is the difference between role and profile in salesforce?

  • Hariom Chaudhary

    Member
    September 11, 2019 at 11:28 am

    Hi,

    In Salesforce Role is meant to increase the data visibility to a particular user. It can be done through sharing rules or by building role hierarchy. Using roles, you can control the ac

    Profile: Unlike roles profile is mandatory for all, and it stays at the object level. It is treated as a building pillar of an organisation.

  • Saddam

    Member
    September 11, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    Profile:

    A Profile is a collection of settings and permissions that controls the user what they have to do in the application and with access what they have.
    A profile controls “Object permissions, Field permissions, User permissions, Tab settings, App settings, Apex class access, Visualforce page access, Page layouts, Record Types, Login hours & Login IP ranges.
    Defining profile for a user is mandatory.

    Role:

    A role controls the level of visibility that users have into your organization’s data. Mainly is going to provide the record level security.
    Users at any given role level can view, edit, and report on all data owned by or shared with users below them in the hierarchy, unless your organization’s sharing model for an object specifies otherwise.
    It is not mandatory that a user should have a role.

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