Assign Lifecycle Center Permission Sets

Grant team members access to Lifecycle Center features and workflows by assigning the appropriate permission sets.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience in Professional (API access required), Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Not Available in: Government Cloud Plus. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details.
Not available in: EU Operating Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. Lifecycle Center is supported in orgs in the EU that aren’t part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions.
User Permissions Needed
To assign Lifecycle Center permission sets: Lifecycle Center Admin

Assign permission sets to everyone working on your project. When planning assignments, determine who must change project-level settings (such as adding environments) and who only needs access to work items.

Refer to this table to determine which permission sets to assign to your team members.

Permission Set Description Recommended Assignment
Lifecycle Center User (previously, DevOps Center User) The base permission set. Provides data access and permissions to view pipelines and manage work items. Also allows viewing test suite group executions and test results, and running on-demand tests. This set doesn’t overlap with the Admin set. Admins need this permission set, too. All Lifecycle Center users, including Lifecycle Center admins.
Lifecycle Center Admin (previously, DevOps Center Admin) Provides data access and permissions to set up projects, environments, and users. Team managers, or project managers.
Lifecycle Center Deployment Manager (previously, DevOps Center Deployment Manager) Provides permissions to promote changes through the pipeline stages. Also allows viewing test suite group executions and test results, and running on-demand tests. Deployment managers and any team members authorized to promote changes.
Access Lifecycle Center Named Credentials (previously, Access DevOps Center Named Credentials) Provides access to the named credentials needed to authenticate to environments. Created and maintained automatically by Lifecycle Center. All Lifecycle Center users
Lifecycle Center Testing Manager (previously, DevOps Testing Manager) Provides read-write access to Lifecycle Center Testing objects. Allows configuring test providers, assigning test suites and quality gate rules to pipeline stages, and running test suites manually or through pipeline events. Quality engineers or team managers responsible for configuring and managing Lifecycle Center Testing.
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Permission Sets, and then select Permission Sets.
  2. Select the requires Lifecycle Center permission set.
  3. Click Manage Assignments, and then click Add Assignments.
  4. Select the checkboxes next to the names of the users that you want assigned to this permission set, and click Assign.
  5. Click Done.

Repeat these steps to assign additional permission sets to users as needed. For example, a deployment manager needs both the Lifecycle Center User and Lifecycle Center Admin permission sets.