Administrative Security
The Force Platform includes a wide range of built-in capabilities. You usually do not want to give all the power of the complete platform to all users in the environment. Administrative permissions are used to grant or deny access to some areas of Force Platform functionality for particular users.
Profiles
Profiles are a way you can group users together for easier administration. A user can belong to one and only one profile, although administrators can change profile membership for a user.
You have already used profiles in previous chapters of this book - to assign access to objects, default record layouts and record types. Profiles are the basis for allowing administrative and component permissions. Profiles are defined ...
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