What is permission set license?

What is permission set license?

Permission set is nit a license it is just another customized access level that can be assigned to a user or a Profile. If you do not want to modify tbe profile and would like to assign a temporary access to a user then you can create a permission set and assign to a user.

What is sales user permission set license?

A permission set is a convenient way to assign users specific settings and permissions to use various tools and functions. Permission set licenses incrementally entitle users to access features that are not included in their user licenses.

What is the sales cloud user permission set?

Permission set licenses extend the functionality of user licenses. With permission set licenses, you can assign more permissions to users than their user license supports. Permission sets extend users’ functional access without changing their profiles.

What is user license in Salesforce?

A user license determines the baseline of features that the user can access. Every user must have exactly one user license. You assign user permissions for data access through a profile and optionally one or more permission sets.

How are permission set licenses different from user licenses?

Permission set licenses incrementally entitle users to access features that are not included in their user licenses. Users can be assigned any number of permission set licenses. You won’t be able to assign a permission set license until after the user has been created (there is a related list on the user detail page).

How does an admin assign a license to a user?

As an admin, you can assign permission set licenses to a user to augment the functionality provided by the assigned user license. After assigning user and permission set licenses, you take additional steps to determine the functionality that a given user has, by assigning profiles and permission sets.

What do permission set licenses do for Salesforce?

So permission set licenses allow Salesforce to charge you (their customer) for access to some aspect of the platform in a way that gives you the flexibility to assign it only to the subset of your users that need it, rather than paying for all of your users.

Can a user have more than one Salesforce license?

Many Salesforce products, such as Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, also include permission set licenses. Like user licenses, permission set licenses define user-level features. But while a user can have only one user license, the user can be assigned multiple permission set licenses.