What is the difference between a Role and Profile in Salesforce?

Hi kapil,

Profiles control the objects, fields, tabs, apps page layout,record types available to the user.

Role control record level access can be controlled by Role. Depending on your sharing settings, roles can control the level of visibility that users have into your organisation's data. Users at any given role level can view, edit, and report on all data owned by or shared with users below them in the hierarchy, unless your organisation's sharing model for an object specifies otherwise.

Hello Kapil,

• Profiles and Roles both have there own piece of importance where profile basically determined for Object Access while roles for record level access under sharing and security model.
• Profiles are required for every users while Roles are not required. While creating new user the Role field shows required on layout but by default it takes <None Specified> as value.

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Thanks!!

Hi,

Roles are one of the ways you can control access to records. They also impact reports (e.g. "My Teams" filter). Roles come into play if your security model (OWDs) are set to private.

Profiles help determine record privileges. Assuming the User can see the record, Profiles determine what the User can do, view or edit on that record. Profiles control other system privileges as well (mass email, export data, etc)

Hope this helps.

Role is always dependent of profile whereas profile can be
independent of role.

Thanks.