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Selectively Show Components to Users Using Custom Permissions

November 2, 2021 by Jennifer W. Lee Leave a Comment

In a previously published blog post, Why You Should Add Custom Permissions to Your #AwesomeAdmin Tool Belt, I introduced you to custom permissions. While this feature has been around since Winter ’15, it still remains fairly unknown and underutilized by the admin community. Now’s the time, #AwesomeAdmins — use this superpower to lock or unlock user access to apps or processes!

In this blog post, we’ll focus on how admins can use custom permissions to selectively show components — such as an action, field, or flow — to a group of users with component visibility on a Lightning record page. However, this technique can be extended to any component in Lightning App Builder using component visibility.

In case you’re wondering what component visibility is, when you select a component on a record, app, or Home page in the Lightning App Builder, the component visibility properties appear. This allows you to

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