Editor’s note: This post was updated on September 26, 2022, with the latest information on enablement timing.
We have important news for #AwesomeAdmins who manage a Salesforce Community or Site. There are updates coming in Spring ’23 that require your attention to ensure your external users see the correct information in your Community or Site. Please continue reading and take action before Spring ’23!
Each external user should only edit and view their own Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. Since each company considers different fields as PII, Salesforce has increased the number of default fields considered PII when you enable Enhanced Personal Information Management. This means that if you do not take the steps outlined below, there’s a chance you’ll have users who cannot see the data they expect to see.
An example scenario would be how external users view a field like Mobile. If you made the Mobile field for external users viewable by your community users, then your users may be accustomed to viewing and referencing this field. Salesforce considers the Mobile field PII by default, so in Spring ’23 this field will be not viewable to other external users unless the admin takes the below steps.
To avoid unexpected changes to field visibility for external users, we urge you to take action prior to Spring ’23 being enabled in your Salesforce org.
First, disable Hide Personal Information and enable Enhanced Personal Information Management by following the below steps.
1. Go to Setup > User Management Settings.
2. Disable the Hide Personal Information setting.
3. Enable the Enhanced Personal Information Management setting.
Then, review the fields that will be classified as PII with Enhanced Personal Information Management.
Hide Personal Information (retired in Spring '23) | Enhanced Personal Information Management |
Alias | The 10 fields from Hide Personal Information and the following fields: About Me (Components of the Address) First Name |
Now, adjust the PII for fields that should not be classified as PII (if needed).
1. Review the User fields classified as personal information and adjust what is considered PII by clicking the this field set link or going to: Setup > Object Manager > Users > Field Sets > PersonalInfo_EPIM.
2. Remove fields that your external users should have the option to see.
3. Classify only fields that contain user PII; for example, do not classify System fields.
4. As always, test in a sandbox before production!
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