Profile management
The first question that we must answer and be clear about is "What are profiles in Salesforce?". In the User Management section, we explored how to create users in Salesforce. Now, this section will deal with how we profile these users. So, a set of users who will need the same type of object access, tabs, applications, permissions, and user interfaces are categorized into a common profile. This is described in the following screenshot:
The profiles can be viewed and created by navigating to Setup | Manage Users | Profiles.
When a new profile is created, it has to be cloned from the existing profiles. When your organization (org) ...
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