Use the object manager to set field-level security settings on profiles.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To set field-level security: |
Manage Profiles and Permission Sets AND Customize Application |
We strongly recommend that you use permission sets and permission set groups instead of profiles to manage your users’ field permissions. Because you can reuse smaller permission set building blocks, you can avoid creating dozens or even hundreds of profiles for each user and job function. For more information, see Permissions Sets in Salesforce Help.
Note On the User Management Settings page in Setup, if the Field-Level Security for Permission
Sets during Field Creation setting is enabled, you set field-level security for permission sets
in Object Manager.
- From Setup, open Object Manager, and then in the Quick Find box, enter the name of the object containing the field.
- Select the object, and then click Fields & Relationships.
- Select the field you want to modify.
- Click Set Field-Level Security.
- Specify the field's access level.
- Save your changes.