Admins with the Customize Application permission can grant API read access to all custom settings.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience. |
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Available in: Group, Professional, Developer, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Database.com Editions. Packages aren’t available in Database.com. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To grant access to custom settings: | Customize Application |
- From Setup, enter Schema Settings in the Quick Find box, and make sure that the Restrict access to custom settings org permission is enabled.
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Enter User Management Settings in the Quick Find box, and enable
Enhanced Profile User Interface.
This setting provides a uniform and streamlined interface, but isn’t a requirement for granting permissions.
- Enter Profiles or Permission Sets in the Quick Find box.
- Click the name of the profile or permission set that you want to edit.
- Click System permissions.
- Check the View All Custom Settings permission.
- Click Save.