Profile in salesforce

·   Profiles define how users access objects and data, and what they can do within the application. When you create users, you assign a profile to each one. or we can say Set of permissions called profile

·     License must required.

·     When we are not assign profile to user license is not count.

·  A profile controls “Object permissions, Field permissions, App settings, Tab settings, Apex class access, Visual force page access, Login hours & Login IP ranges.

·  You can define profiles by user’s job function. For example System Administrator, Developer, Sales Representative.

·    A profile can be assigned to many users, but user can be assigned single profile at a time.

Questeion

How many profile you can create

Ans - Depend on licence

Profile doesnot have delete option, it is not deleted it is deactivate

Types of profiles in salesforce

1. Standard profiles: By default salesforce provide below standard profiles. We cannot deleted standard ones.

1.    Read Only,

2.    Standard User,

3.    Marketing User,

4.    Contract Manager,

5.    Solution Manager &

6.    System Administrator. 

  Each of these standard one includes a default set of permissions for all of the standard objects available on the platform.

  2. Custom Profiles: Custom ones defined by us. They can be deleted if there are no users assigned with that particular one.

Navigation: setup -> Administer -> Manage users -> Profiles

   Login hour

   Login hour restriction are set for the user profile,

   any login attempt outside the specified hour is denied

Login IP Range

If IP Address Restriction are defined for the user’s profile ,

any login attempt from an unknown IP address is denied