An administrator at Cloud Kicks needs to grant executive assistants access to view custom billing object records and run specialized financial reports. These assistants currently have different standard user profiles depending on their assigned department. The administrator wants to provide this access while minimizing administrative overhead and avoiding unnecessary permission duplication. Which solution should the administrator implement?
- Create a single Permission Set containing the billing object view permissions and report permissions, and assign it to the executive assistants.Answer
- BClone each department's existing profile, enable the billing and reporting permissions on the new profiles, and reassign the executive assistants.
- CModify the Organization-Wide Defaults for the billing object to Public Read/Write so all executive assistants can view the records automatically.
- DCreate a Muting Permission Set that grants billing view access and report execution, then assign it to a new public group containing the assistants.
Answer
Create a single Permission Set containing the required billing object view access and report running permissions, then assign this Permission Set directly to the executive assistants regardless of their underlying profile.
The correct approach uses a single Permission Set to grant the necessary custom object read access and report permissions. Because Permission Sets are additive and profile-independent, an administrator can assign one Permission Set to multiple users regardless of their assigned baseline profile, minimizing administrative effort.
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Permission Sets for Additive Access Management