Explore new features of Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups
1. Introduction In the last few years, a significant change happened in how user permissions are getting handled in Salesforce. When I started my career in Salesforce as a Developer, it was just profiles, and later Salesforce introduced p ermission sets - when there was a need to give additional permission to specific users who belong to the same profile. Later Salesforce introduced the Permission Set Groups where we can combine multiple Permission Sets and assign them to a specific user. Now the direction from Salesforce is to use minimal profiles and assign Permission Set Groups to users based on their job description or Persona. The advantage here is that the same permission set can be assigned to multiple groups, and we can control access very easily, not like earlier- whenever we need to have some additional features for a specific user, we will end up creating a new profile. In this post let us see some latest features from Salesforce to handle Permission Sets and Permission