An administrator needs to grant three users in the Sales department the ability to export reports. These users share the same base profile as twenty other sales representatives who do not require export capabilities. Which Salesforce security feature should the administrator use to grant this additional capability?
- Create a permission set that enables report exporting and assign it to the three users.Answer
- BClone the existing profile, enable report exporting on the new profile, and assign it to the three users.
- CEdit the shared base profile to enable report exporting for all sales representatives.
- DAdjust the Organization-Wide Defaults settings to grant report export access through the role hierarchy.
Answer
The administrator should create a permission set with the required export permission and assign it to the three specific users.
Permission sets are used to grant additional permissions to specific users on an ad-hoc basis without changing their underlying profile assignments or affecting other users.
Step-by-Step Solution
Key Concept
Using Permission Sets for Additive Access Management