Author’s note: You likely noticed that the official announcement about the End of Life (EOL) of permissions on profiles was never sent out. We’ve decided to no longer enforce the End of Life of permissions on profiles for Spring ’26. We realized, thanks to all the Awesome Admin feedback we’ve received, that we first have work more to do to improve the admin experience, and we’re focusing on these updates. However, we want to be clear that we won’t be making any improvements to profiles going forward. All of our efforts will be focused on permission sets, permission set groups, and related features.
You can still view our original post on EOL of permissions on profiles below. The most up-to-date user management best practices can be found here.
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If you’ve been keeping up with new features for admins each release, you may have noticed we’ve been sharing updates on the future of user management in Salesforce. For the past 3 years, we’ve consistently told our customers and partners that permission sets are the future of user management.
It’s finally here! We’re announcing the end of life (EOL) of permissions on profiles that will be the Spring ’26 release. Over the next few weeks, you will see the official announcement come out.
Before we dive into what’s new with Spring ‘23, here’s a quick reminder of what will remain in a profile and what will eventually be available only in permission sets. I’ve also included some FAQs to help you understand where we’re going.
Profiles will still exist; however, permissions on profiles will EOL and permissions will be available only on permission sets.
In Winter ’22, we released new features to make it easier to manage user access with permission sets, by making them available during field creation! Now, in Spring ’23, there are even MOAR enhancements that #AwesomeAdmins can use to manage user access.
User Access Policies will remain in Closed Beta for the Spring release; however, we’ve made many improvements including the ability to have 20 active user access policies. We’re accepting most customers into the Beta that have Unlimited Edition or Enterprise Edition orgs, so please fill out this form if you would like to try this feature. In addition to this, we’ve also made user access policies available via the Tooling API and the Metadata API, and they can be deployed with both first-generation and second-generation packaging. Since this is a high visibility feature with many customers starting to make the move off of profiles, we’ve made the documentation available early in Help & Training.
In the Winter ’22 release, we introduced the ability to set FLS on permission sets. Now in the Spring ’23 release, you can turn off the filter that shows only permission sets with at least read access to the object where you’re creating or editing the field. We also added more columns to help you identify the right permission set, and we made the columns sortable. In addition, if you’re in a new org with this setting on and don’t have any permission sets, we display a message with a link to create a permission set.
Last but not least, in the last Release Readiness Live (RRL) at Dreamforce, you heard me mention that we’re going to give Delegated Admin some much needed love over the next few releases. We’ve delivered on that promise by making Delegated Admin available in the Tooling API, not only for querying but also for inserting and updating through tools like Developer Console and the Data Loader!
Don’t forget to tune in to the Spring ’23 Release Readiness Live: Admin Preview on January 20, 2023, to see demos of a subset of these new, exciting features. Add the broadcast to your calendar today! And be sure to check out the Learn MOAR Spring ’23 for Admins Trailmix and follow along on the blog this week for more Learn MOAR!
Winter ’25 is almost here! Learn more about user management and check out Be Release Ready to discover more resources to help you prepare for Winter ’25. We’re continuing to innovate in Setup starting with user access and user management. We have several exciting enhancements in store for Winter ’25–many thanks to your feedback and […]
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Follow and complete a Learn MOAR Winter ’23 trailmix for admins or developers by November 30, 2022, 11:59 PM PT to earn a special community badge and enter for a chance to win one of five $200 USD Salesforce Certification vouchers. Restrictions apply. Learn how to participate and review the Official Rules by visiting the […]
