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description: Custom permissions give you a way to provide access to custom processes or apps. After you’ve created a custom permission and associated it with a process or app, you can enable the permission in permission sets.
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# Enable Custom Permissions in Permission Sets

Custom permissions give you a way to provide access to custom processes or apps. After you’ve created a custom permission and associated it with a process or app, you can enable the permission in permission sets.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and
              Lightning Experience</td>

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              <p>Available in: <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>,
                <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions
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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">In Group and
                Professional Edition organizations, you can’t create or edit custom permissions, but you
                can install them as part of a managed package.</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d66529e81 ">To enable custom permissions in permission sets:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d66529e81 ">Manage Profiles and Permission Sets</td>

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1. From Setup, enter Permission Sets in the Quick Find box, then select **Permission Sets**.
2. Select a permission set, or create one.
3. On the permission set overview page, click **Custom Permissions**.
4. Click **Edit**.
5. To enable custom permissions, select them from the Available Custom Permissions list and then click **Add**. To remove custom permissions from the permission set, select them from the Enabled Custom Permissions list and then click **Remove**.
6. Click **Save**.

You can see and edit all custom permissions that are enabled for a permission set on its summary page. On the permission set’s detail page, click **View Summary**.

#### See Also

- [Configure Permissions and Access in Permission Sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.perm_sets_permissions_access.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Configure object, field, and user permissions as well as other access and feature settings in permission sets.")
- [Custom Permissions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.custom_perms_overview.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Manage Permissions in the Permission Set and Permission Set Group Access Summaries](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.perm_sets_summary_page.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To help you manage your users’ permissions, you can see and update all object, user, field, and custom permissions that are enabled for a permission set or permission set group in its summary page. You can also manage which permission set groups the permission set is included in and vice versa.")