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# Set Field-Level Security for a Field on All Profiles

Use the object manager to set field-level security settings on profiles.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d8049e75">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d8049e75 ">To set field-level security:</td>

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              <p>Manage Profiles and Permission Sets</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Customize Application</p>
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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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.perm_sets_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "A permission set is a collection of settings and permissions that give users access to various tools and functions. Permission sets extend users’ functional access without changing their profiles and are the recommended way to manage your users’ permissions.") in Salesforce Help.

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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.

1. From Setup, open **Object Manager**, and then in the Quick Find box, enter the name of the object containing the field.
2. Select the object, and then click **Fields & Relationships**.
3. Select the field you want to modify.
4. Click **Set Field-Level Security**.
5. Specify the field's access level.
6. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Field Permissions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_profiles_field_perms.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Field permissions, or field-level security, lets you specify whether users can view or edit each field for an object.")