What does it mean to control access to fields?
Field-level security settings—or field permissions—control whether a user can see, edit, and delete the value for a particular field on an object. These are the settings that allow us to protect sensitive fields such as a candidate’s social security number without having to hide the candidate object.
How can I limit access to certain fields?
List reasons to limit access to specific fields. View and edit field-level security settings. Defining field-level security for sensitive fields is the second piece of the security and sharing puzzle, after controlling object-level access.
How are content types added to the user experience?
With the Content Types added, this is the new user experience: A Customer creates a new Item. They are presented with only the fields they need to fill out (37 fields instead of 112) The Item is saved as a Customer content type.
Can a user share access to a field?
A user with access to a secured field in a record can share it with another user or team. The user can only give the access that they have on the record. For example, to share the record and grant Update privileges, the user must have update privileges.
How can we give the record level permissions?
Record-level security lets you give users access to some object records, but not others. Every record is owned by a user or a queue. The owner has full access to the record. In a hierarchy, users higher in the hierarchy always have the same access to users below them in the hierarchy.
What can I do with a field level security profile?
A security profile can be configured to grant user or team members the following permissions at the field level: Read. Read-only access to the field’s data. Create. Users or teams in this profile can add data to this field when creating a record. Update. Users or teams in this profile can update the field’s data after it has been created.