Salesforce permissions are all about what a user can do in terms of Field Level Security, object level access, Apex class access, Visualforce page access, and other built in Salesforce access that are handled via a profile or permission set.
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unable to query Case object
when trying to query case object with below SOQL, giving me an error that no such field exist. where as i can able to see field in the customization. ? is this permission issue ?
select id,status ...
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list of permissions included in a permission set?
I want to see which permissions are included in one of my permission sets. is there a way to get them all at once? Best I can see is that you have to go through 5- 6 different screens
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Permission Sets: I can't navigate between VF pages with “Read only” Access
This is the scenario:
I have a custom object myObject__c and two VF pages which have the object as standardController and MyObjectController.cls as extension.
The class is a StandardController that ...
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Check whether context user is having “view all” permission on an object
I want to check whether context user is having "view all" permission on an object or not. Is there any way to know that?
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When new fields deployed from sandbox, how do I give acccess to guest site users?
We created a web page for contact information. When we deployed it to production, all the new fields were hidden from all users. I set the access to visible for all users, however my guest site ...
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Permission Set Blank When Installing Managed Package
Developed a Permission set based on the SalesForce user license for our managed package. When I install the package as a Sys Admin in customer org, the permission set is blank. Its there, but none of ...
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Permissions to execute System.abortJob() method
What permissions does user need to call System.abortJob() in Apex?
When the method is called this error is displayed:
System.SecurityException: Insufficient Privileges.
Thanks.
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Allowing Certain Users To See/Search Certain Records Only
I believe this functionality is built into SF, but I am not familiar with it and our company may be needing it soon.
How do I allow certain users to only be able to see (or search) specific records? ...
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VisualForce - How to detect if a user has write permissions for a field
I would like to display different elements to a user depending on whether they have write permissions for a certain field, or just read permissions.
Is it possible to detect user permissions for a ...
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Show “Insufficient Privileges” directly when clicking 'Edit' (override), not on 'Save'
If a user clicks 'Edit' on an opportunity which he isn't allowed to edit, the "Insufficient Privileges" page directly appears. This is good.
If a user clicks 'Edit' on a custom object (which has an ...
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What are the correct scopes to use for different applications?
I am writing a desktop application (or several) to access mail, contacts and chat via the REST api (User-Agent Flow)
What are the correct and minimal scopes to use for each of these individually or ...
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Site.com Guest User is not available as default Lead Owner on Lead form
I'm adding a Lead form to a Site.com page, similar to this blog post by Joe Morse.
I am able to select the Lead object from the form connection picklist when dragging the form on to the page and I ...
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Apex bypasses field-level security?
Can an apex code, invoked by a non-admin user, perform an update on a field that has a field-level security of visible and read-only for non-admin profiles?
If so, what is permitted/restricted by the ...
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VF controller system context versus Sites Guest User object permissions
I'm trying to clarify VF controller context versus Sites Guest User permissions on Contact record.
From everything I've read, a VF controller using "without sharing" operates in the system context. ...
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Standard Lookup field doesn't show all Contacts
I have an ordinary master-detail relationship, where Contact is the master and Example__c is the detail.
I have a number of Contacts in the system, and have full CRUD permissions on all of them. The ...
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Can I reference permissions in Validation Rule formula?
I'm trying to cut down on the number of profiles in one of my Orgs. One way we're using profiles is to enforce business rules, like "Only a ZZZ user may close opportunities as won," which we do by ...
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Permission problem in sales forece
My URL :- http://myurl.com/homepage2
This is a site URL...
I am showing a page if user will fire this URL..
While running this URL i am getting some permission problem --
What i have tried --
Try to ...
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Permission Sets for Site Guest User
Managing permissions on a force.com site is one of my least favorite things to do. If you got it right in dev, then move to QA, you have to write down all the permissions because you can't deploy ...
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Custom Controllers - effect of running in System mode
The VisualForce Developer's Guide says:
Like other Apex classes, all custom controllers run in system mode. Consequently, the current user's credentials
are not used to execute controller logic, ...
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How do I enable a custom object for search on the customer portal
I'm running into a strange problem. I am trying to use the standard customer portal search but for some reason only some of my custom objects are visiable there?
I cant seem to figure out what makes ...
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How to show custom object tabs in Customer Portal?
What are ALL the steps to show custom object tabs in Customer Portal? Some steps which I have tried are:
Checked the Available for Customer Portal checkbox in the Custom Object Definition Detail ...
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Can you limit the visibility of fields based on record ownership?
I know with permission sets and sharing rules you can limit visibility and how users can interact with entire records. IS there any way to limit visibility of fields? We are looking to make the basic ...
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Notes & Attachments Data Not Available
I am using an outputLink and want to give the user the opportunity to add a Note to a Contact like so:
<apex:outputLink title="Add a Note" ...
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Cannot edit Deployment Connections when given rights through a Permission Set
The default System Administrator profile does not allow for creation of Change Sets and Deployment Connections. At one time we set up a clone of System Adminstrator with the following permissions ...
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Custom Report Type Broken
I deployed a change set that included two custom report types for accounts with opportunities. These two custom report types sat next to an existing custom report type.
Ever since this deployment ...
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What overrides a profile?
I am confused about the hierarchy of settings
1) I have a profile A and it has a read only access. I have a permission set specific to an user and the permission set grants the user access to edit ...
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How to access profile permissions via API
If I know the name of a certain profile, I would like to obtain CRUD permission settings for each object in the profile using Apex.
I see that there is an sObject called Profile, but this only ...
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Unit-Testing Sites Permission Involving a Sharing Rule with Unit-Test Created Data
We currently have a Salesforce Site, and we're trying to add some unit-tests, around permissions and sharing rules that need to be set. We've smoke tested everything via the UI, and permissions appear ...
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Can a user with limited access query from SOAP api?
So we have the exact same fields in the Sanbox and Production, however, when I run a select statement from the SOAP api, I am told a certain field is invalid. I confirmed it is not invalid.
The only ...
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Can't install managed package because packaged permission set seems to have lost a read permission
I developed a Managed Extension Package. When I try to install it or create a patch org for it, this fails with no error but the note to call Salesforce.
Support told me that it fails due to:
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What is the best way to deploy profiles in Salesforce? (especially system admin)
What is the best way to deploy profiles in salesforce?
I have a system admin profile with access given to the objects that i have created in my sandbox. I have about 1000 fields across these objects. ...
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How to make Lead Status field read-only in a profile?
I'm trying to set up a profile that can only change the Owner on a Lead, nothing else.
Mostly it works, except for three fields: Name, Lead Status and Company:
Field-level security won't let me ...
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Close and Change Status buttons missing for some users on in Case List View
I've noticed that some of our users cannot see the Close or Change Status buttons which normally appear in the cases List Views. They have permissions to read, create and edit cases.
What I can see:
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Record Owner cannot edit record
From what I have read and some online vids I've watched, I understood that record owners have full access to the records that they own. Full access meant that they could read, edit, delete and share ...
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How to remove permission sets from a package
We created some permission sets to include with our managed package. However, we have now realized that it isn't the best approach since not all orgs can use permission sets.
However, we cannot find ...
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Can the Context User on an Email Service be an API-Only User?
The title kind of says it all: Can the Context User on an Email Service be an API-Only User?
I found this note in the online documentation:
Set Context User – this specifies the context under ...
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How do you Apex Unit Test Object(CRUD)/Field(FLS) Permissions in an Org Portable manner?
Specifically, how might one get an org portable Apex Unit Test User that DOES NOT have READ access to Accounts?
Creating a Test Permission Set that DOES NOT have READ access to ACCOUNTS and assigning ...
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App disappears from Permission Set included with package
We're working on our first Salesforce package, and recently switched from creating Beta packages to a Managed Package.
For some reason, the permission set that we're pushing loses the entry in ...
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Allow record editing when custom field is checked
I'm fairly new to Salesforce. I'm trying to set up some of our rules and functionality in Salesforce and I was wondering if there is a way (or which is the better one) to restrict a user to edit a ...
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Customizing visualforce permission error message
We are using an appexchange app that consists of a visualforce inline page. This visualforce page connects to a third-party API and displays some information on a record detail page. The licensing ...
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Visualforce exception page authentication
For sites, there's a standard visualforce exception page.
We use a header on the site that will present either
Welcome, username
Or
Login/register
...based on login status. Whenever a user finds ...
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Chatter Group security permissions
Salesforce seems to lack a security model around a records and their children as it pertains to Chatter groups (Salesforce user groups have one).
Chatter groups can't own sObjects that secures them ...
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Can I enable my users to customize their home page tab?
AFAIK, users can only use HomePage Layouts that I create for them, or only change the Dashboard that they see. That's assuming they do not have the Customize application permission.
Assuming I don't ...
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How do you change profile level security permissions on an app after it's been installed?
I recently had an app that had been installed a while ago. In the mean time we had created a new profile type which, since it hadn't existed when the app was first installed, didn't have permissions ...
