Summary

The aim of this chapter was to get acquainted with the profiles and user concepts in Salesforce. The motivation of this chapter was that as an administrator, we understand the platform capabilities provided to profile users, and manage licenses for a user, provide the right access to users, and maintain application access. The topics explained in this chapter included explaining profiles, roles, delegated administration, and the Salesforce A app fundamentals.

If you have not understood the concepts such as record types, page layouts, and so on, there is nothing to worry about as our next chapter will dive deep into these topics with examples. The next chapter will teach you how to build the blocks of Salesforce applications, such as page layout, workflows, approval process, formula fields, building relationships, and so on.