Profile And User in salesforce

Profile;- 

• A profile is a collection of settings and permissions that define how a user access records.

• Profile control a user's permission to perform different function in salesforce.

• A profile can have many user but a user can have only one profile.

User;-

• The people who have authenticated username and password to log on to salesforce successfully

• Each salesforce user must be assigned a profile.

There are Two types of profile in salesforce;-

• Standard profile

• Custom profile

Standard profile are provided with Force.com and can't be renamed or deleted.

Custom profile have the same functionlity as salesforce profile but can be named,

They can also be deleted if there are no users assigned to them.

To manage profile click

                        Standard Navigation- Setup- Administration- Manage user- profile

List of Standard profiles;-

1. System Administrator
2. Standard user
3. Solution Manager
4. Marketing User
5. Contract Manager
6. Read only

System Administrator;-

"Super user" can customize every thing in the application

Standard user;-

Can view, edit and delete their own records.

Solution Manager;-

Standard user permission + Can manage published solutions + Can manage solutions categories.

Marketing User;-

Standard user permissions + Can import leads for the organization.

Contract Manager;-

Standard user permissions + Can edit, approve, active and delete contracts.

Read only;-

Can only view records.

What does a profile control ?

Profile control the following,

1. Page Layouts; Which page layout the user see.
2. Field Level Security; The FLS restricts user's access to view and edit fields.
3. Custom App; Which standard and custom apps the user can view.
4. Tabs; Which tabs the user can view
5. Record Types; Which records type are available to the user
6. Login: The hours and IP Address from which the user can log in.
7. Administrative; General and object permission

NOTE; We can't delete the user from the salesforce .com,

we can deactivate the user, so user can't able to login salesforce.com

Profiles:

First way of creating a Profile:

Click on the Your Name - Setup

Go to Administration - Manage Users - Click on Profiles 

Click on the “New Profile” button for creating a Profile

 Give Profile Name here

   Second way of creating a profile: Cloning the existing profile

         Click on “Clone” link for cloning the profile

  Give Profile Name here and click on “Save” button

Users:

Go to Administration Setup - Manage Users - Click on Users

Click on “New User” button for creating a user in Salesforce.com

Enter the details in the following page and click on “Save” button