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Salesforce ships three releases a year, and its guides change with them. Limits are raised, caps come off, new features arrive, and the advice gets updated. That’s a good thing: it’s a growing platform. But it means a number in a course is only as good as the edition it came from. So in these courses, every platform fact carries the release it was read in and the date it was checked.

This page is the long view. It lists the Salesforce guides the courses lean on, from today back to Winter ‘16.

Releases, and Why One a Year

Section titled “Releases, and Why One a Year”

Salesforce ships three releases a year: Spring, Summer and Winter. Each one gets a release number and a new API version, and each one can bring a new edition of a guide. A Winter release arrives in the autumn of the year before its name: Winter ‘27 came out in September 2026, so its guide says “updated September 18, 2026.”

Three editions a year would bury the history in near-duplicates, so for release editions this page keeps one a year, the Winter release. That’s enough to see how a guideline has moved over a decade. The newest edition is always here too: when a Spring or Summer release comes out after the Winter one, it’s added at the top as Current, and it stays there until the next release replaces it.

Here’s every release since Winter ‘16, newest first, with the weekends it reached production orgs:

Every release since Winter ’16 (34 releases, newest first)
ReleaseNumberAPI versionProduction release weekendsAPI version today
Winter ’27 · Current26468.0September 4, October 2, October 9, 2026 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2626267.0May 15, June 5, June 12-13, 2026 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2626066.0January 16, February 13, February 20, 2026 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2625865.0September 19, October 3, October 10, 2025 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2525664.0May 16, June 6, June 13, 2025 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2525463.0January 10, February 7, February 14, 2025 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2525262.0September 6, October 4, October 12, 2024 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2425061.0May 17, June 7, June 14, 2024 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2424860.0January 12, February 2, February 9, 2024 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2424659.0September 1, October 6, October 13, 2023 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2324458.0May 19, June 2, June 9, 2023 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2324257.0January 13, February 3, February 7, 2023 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2324056.0September 9, October 7, October 14-15, 2022 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2223855.0May 20, June 3, June 10-11, 2022 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2223654.0January 14, February 4, February 11-12, 2022 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2223453.0September 10, October 1 and 8, 2021 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2123252.0May 14 to June 11, 2021 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2123051.0January 15, February 5 and 12, 2021 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2122850.0September 19, October 9, October 16-17, 2020 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’2022649.0June 12, July 10, July 17-18, 2020 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’2022448.0January 10 to February 14, 2020 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Winter ’2022247.0September 20 to October 11, 2019 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’1922046.0May 17, June 7 and 14, 2019 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’1921845.0not foundSupported
Winter ’1921644.0Sept. 14, Oct. 5, Oct. 12, 2018 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Summer ’1821443.0June 1-9, 2018 (opens in a new tab)Supported
Spring ’1821242.0not foundSupported
Winter ’1821041.0not foundSupported
Summer ’1720840.0June 2-10, 2017 (opens in a new tab)Supported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
Spring ’1720639.0not foundSupported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
Winter ’1720438.0not foundSupported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
Summer ’1620237.0not foundSupported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
Spring ’1620036.0not foundSupported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
Winter ’1619835.0not foundSupported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28

Production weekends as Salesforce’s Admins blog announced them in each release countdown; your org gets the release on one of them, depending on its instance. Not found: releases before Summer ’17, and Winter ’18, Spring ’18 and Spring ’19. API status from the End-of-Life policy. Checked 2026-11-01.

API Versions

Section titled “API Versions”

Every release brings a new API version, and integrations, packages and code are pinned to the version they were written against. Salesforce supports each API version “for a minimum of 3 years from the date of first release,” gives at least a year’s notice before support for a version ends, and in practice keeps versions far longer. Here’s where every version stands today:

API versionsReleasedStatus today
41.0 and laterWinter ’18 to nowSupported
31.0 to 40.0Summer ’14 to Summer ’17Supported; deprecated and unsupported from Summer ’27, retired from Summer ’28
21.0 to 30.0Spring ’11 to Spring ’14Retired as of Summer ’25
7.0 to 20.0up to Winter ’11Retired as of Summer ’22

Source: SOAP API End-of-Life Policy (opens in a new tab), checked 2026-11-01.

If you inherit an org, check which API versions its integrations call; a version on its way out is a project, not a surprise.

How to Read It

Section titled “How to Read It”

The documents are grouped by topic, one line each. Every line shows the document’s history at a glance: one small square a year, filled where there’s a copy. Open a line for what the document is for, the course pages that cite it, and every copy, newest first:

  • Current, in bold, is the one to use for anything you build or decide today.
  • Baseline is Winter ‘16, the edition the courses compare against.
  • PDF is Salesforce’s own copy of a release edition, at an address that includes the release number (it goes up by two every release), so the link always means the same edition.
  • Archive is a copy in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab), in case Salesforce ever moves or removes the original.

There are two kinds of document. Release editions are guides Salesforce publishes as a PDF for every release. Living pages are pages with no versions, such as Help articles, Trailhead units and papers on the Salesforce Architects site, which change in place; for those, the history is one Wayback Machine copy a year, as far back as the Archive has one.

Open any two copies side by side and you’ll see how a guideline has moved. For an example, see The Platform Keeps Growing, where Winter ‘16 sits next to Winter ‘27.

The list grows as the courses grow: when a course starts citing a Salesforce guide or page with a fact that can change, it’s added here, and every release brings its next copy.

Checked 2026-10-31.

Each line opens. The squares are one per year, 2015 to 2026, left to right: ■ a release edition (Salesforce's release-numbered PDF), ■ an archived copy of a living page (a page with no versions), ■ current.

Data volumes and queries

Section titled “Data volumes and queries”
Best Practices for Deployments with Large Data Volumes
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

Designing and tuning orgs with large data volumes: indexes and selectivity, skinny tables, sharing, loading, deleting and archiving.

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SOQL and SOSL Reference
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

The query and search languages: syntax, relationship queries and their limits.

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Strategies for Big Data Architecture: Choose the Right Big Data Solution (Trailhead)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

When to use standard objects, big objects or external storage, with the 20-million-record rule of thumb.

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Large Data Volumes: Design Your Data Model (Trailhead)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Parent-child, ownership and lookup skew, and what large data volumes slow down.

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Sharing and access

Section titled “Sharing and access”
Record-Level Access: Under the Hood
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

How Salesforce works out who can see a record: the sharing tables, groups and the calculations behind them.

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Designing Record Access for Enterprise Scale
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

Record access at scale: ownership and parent-child skew, group membership, locking and deferred sharing.

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Apex Developer Guide
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

How Apex runs with and without sharing, in user or system mode, how code creates Apex managed shares, and how tests run as another user.

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Object Reference for the Salesforce Platform
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

The standard objects and their fields, including the share objects (such as AccountShare and its row causes) and the factors that affect data access.

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Sharing and Record Access Features (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The list of record access features (defaults, role hierarchy, sharing rules, teams, manual and Apex sharing and more) and how they combine.

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Set Your Internal Organization-Wide Sharing Defaults (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The baseline record access each object gives internal users, and the access levels Salesforce allows for each object.

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External Organization-Wide Defaults Overview (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The separate baseline for external users, and the rule that it can be no more open than the internal default.

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Controlling Access Using the Role Hierarchy (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How the role hierarchy opens records to managers, and the Grant Access Using Hierarchies setting for custom objects.

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Sharing Rules (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Owner-based and criteria-based sharing rules: what they share, with whom, and at what access level.

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Sharing Rule Types (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Which objects support sharing rules, and what each object's rules can grant.

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Sharing Rule Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The limits on sharing rules (how many per object, criteria and guest rules) and the recalculation behavior.

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Implicit Sharing (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The access the platform grants by itself between parent accounts and their child records, and the reverse.

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Manual Sharing (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How record owners and others share a single record by hand, and when that share is removed.

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Create and Edit Public Groups (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Public groups as the targets of sharing, and what members they can hold.

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Restriction Rules (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Restriction rules that narrow which records a user sees, the objects they support and how many each object allows.

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Restriction Rule Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Where restriction rules apply and where they don't (reports, search, lookups and other surfaces).

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Scoping Rules (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Scoping rules that set a default filter on records without removing access.

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Considerations for Using Account Teams (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How account teams grant access to accounts and their related records, and the limits on teams.

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Case Teams (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Case team roles and the case access each role grants.

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Create Queues (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Queues as record owners, which objects they support, and who sees queue records.

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Sales Territories (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Sales Territories (Enterprise Territory Management): territory models, assignment rules and the access territories grant.

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Allocations and Considerations for Territories (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How many territories, models and rules an org can have.

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Share Your Calendar in Lightning Experience (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How a user shares a calendar, and the access levels on offer.

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Data Category Visibility (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How data categories control which Knowledge articles and questions users see.

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How Category Visibility Differs from Other Salesforce Models (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How data category visibility works apart from record sharing.

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Set File Sharing to Inherit Record Permissions (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The setting that lets a file attached to a record follow the record's access.

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Make a File Private on a Record (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Who can make a file private on a record, and who still sees it.

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Set Flow Run Context (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Whether a flow runs in user context or in system context with or without sharing.

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Enforce Parent Sharing on Lookup Relationships (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's guidance on sharing a child record when the access should follow a lookup parent.

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Controlled by Permission Set Behavior on Email-to-Case Routing Address (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2025 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How an Email-to-Case routing address set to "Controlled by Permission Set" behaves.

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Database Operations Run in User Mode by Default, Not System Mode (Summer '26)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The change to Apex database operations running in user mode by default.

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Faster Account Sharing Recalculation by Not Storing Case and Contact Implicit Child Shares (Summer '23)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The release update that stops storing implicit child shares for cases and contacts.

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Platform Sharing Architecture (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How the sharing tables, groups and recalculation work underneath record access.

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Call Apex Methods (Lightning Web Components Developer Guide)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How Lightning web components call Apex, and the sharing the Apex class runs with.

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Get Started with Compliant Data Sharing (Trailhead)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Compliant Data Sharing in Financial Services Cloud: participant-based access that sharing rules don't give.

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Permissions and users

Section titled “Permissions and users”
Metadata API Developer Guide
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

The metadata types behind profiles, permission sets and permission set groups: which settings each one carries when it is deployed.

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Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

What a profile holds, and how profiles relate to permission sets today.

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View and Manage Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Where admins create and manage users, and what each user record carries.

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Delegate Administrative Duties (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Delegated administration: what a delegated admin can and can't do for users and objects.

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Custom Permissions (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Custom permissions: switches for custom features, granted through permission sets and checked by code or formulas.

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Permission Set Groups (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Bundling permission sets into one assignable group.

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Permission Set Groups and Combined Permissions View (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The combined view of every permission a group grants.

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Permission Set Group Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Limits and behaviors of permission set groups.

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Create Session-Based Permission Set Groups (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Permission set groups that apply only while a session is activated.

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Muting Permission Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Muting permission sets: taking permissions out of a group without changing its member sets.

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Permission Set Group Muting Dependencies (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How muting one permission affects the permissions that depend on it.

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Permission Set Group Status and Recalculation (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

When a group recalculates and what its status means meanwhile.

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Guidelines for Creating Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's own guidance on designing permission sets and groups.

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Permission Set Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Limits and behaviors of permission sets, including how many an org can have.

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Create Permission Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Creating a permission set and the license it is tied to.

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See the Count of Permission Set Groups a Permission Set Is Added To (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Where to see how many groups use a permission set.

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Session-Based Permission Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Permission sets that apply only while a session is activated.

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Standard Permission Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The permission sets Salesforce provides and maintains.

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Permission Set and Permission Set Group Access Summaries (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The access summary pages that list everything a permission set or group grants.

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Manage Object Access in Object Manager (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Seeing and changing object access across permission sets from the object itself.

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User Access Policies (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

User access policies that assign and remove permission sets, groups and other access by criteria.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › Profiles, Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups: User Access Policies

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User Access Policy Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Limits and behaviors of user access policies.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › Profiles, Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups: User Access Policies

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Automatically Grant or Revoke Access with a User Access Policy (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Running a user access policy automatically when users are created or change.

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Converting Profiles to Permission Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's tool for turning a profile's permissions into permission sets.

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Set Assignment Expiration Details for Users in Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Giving a permission set or group assignment an end date.

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Permission Assignment Expiration Considerations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Limits and behaviors of expiring assignments.

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Object Permissions (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The object permissions (Read, Create, Edit, Delete, View All, Modify All) and what each allows.

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"View All" and "Modify All" Permissions Overview (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The permissions that override sharing for an object or for all data.

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Limit Profile Details to Required Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Profile filtering: hiding profile names from users who don't need them.

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Licenses Overview (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

User, permission set and feature licenses, and what each one controls.

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Standard User Licenses (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The user license types and what each one allows.

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Give Integration Users API Only Access (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Salesforce Integration user license and its API-only access.

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Manage Employee Agent Access (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2025 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How employees are given access to an Agentforce employee agent.

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Create an Agent from an Agentforce Service Agent Template (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2025 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Setting up a service agent, including the agent user it runs as.

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Increase Number of Permission Sets per Organization (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How an org asks for more permission sets than the default limit.

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Permissions in Profiles Retirement Cancelled (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's notice that the planned retirement of permissions on profiles was cancelled.

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Muting Permission Sets Are Not Included in Salesforce Change Sets (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

A deployment gap for muting permission sets in change sets.

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Permissions and Sharing (Summer '24 release notes)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Summer '24 changes to permissions and sharing.

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Permissions and Sharing (Winter '26 release notes)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2025 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Winter '26 changes to permissions and sharing.

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Permissions and Sharing (Summer '26 release notes)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Summer '26 changes to permissions and sharing.

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Permissions and Sharing (Winter '27 release notes)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Winter '27 changes to permissions and sharing.

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Enable Profile Filtering (Release Update, Winter '27)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The release update that turns on profile filtering, and when it is enforced.

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Migrate Users with User Access Policies (Trailhead)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Using user access policies to move users from profiles to permission sets.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › Profiles, Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups: User Access Policies

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Fields and pages

Section titled “Fields and pages”
What Determines Field Access? (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The layers that decide whether a user sees or edits a field.

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Ways to Control User Access to Fields (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Field-level security against page layouts: which secures a field and which only hides it.

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Verify Access for a Particular Field (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Checking one field's access across profiles and permission sets.

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Data Classification Metadata Fields (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The data sensitivity and compliance fields Salesforce provides on field definitions.

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Fields Required for Creating Custom Objects (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The settings a new custom object starts with, including its sharing options.

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Break Up Your Record Details with Dynamic Forms (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Dynamic Forms: placing fields on Lightning pages with their own visibility rules.

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Dynamic Forms Tips and Considerations (Salesforce Help)
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Where Dynamic Forms work and their limits.

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Visibility Rules on Lightning Pages (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Component visibility rules: showing or hiding a component, which is not a security control.

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Activate Lightning Record or Home Pages (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Assigning Lightning pages by app, record type and profile.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › Profiles, Permission Sets and Permission Set Groups: One of Something

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Login and session security

Section titled “Login and session security”
View and Edit Login Hours in Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Limiting the hours a profile's users can log in.

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View and Edit Password Policies in Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Password policies set on a profile.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › The Front Door: Logging In to Salesforce: Passwords and MFA

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Edit Session Settings in Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Session settings set on a profile, such as timeout and session security level.

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Modify Session Security Settings (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The org-wide session security settings.

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Restrict Login IP Addresses in Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Login IP ranges on a profile: where its users may log in from.

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Set Trusted IP Ranges for Your Org (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2018 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Trusted IP ranges for the org, and how they differ from profile login IP ranges.

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Log In as Another User (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Who can log in as another user, and the settings that control it.

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Custom Login Flows (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Login flows that run steps after authentication and before access.

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Set Up a Login Flow and Connect to Profiles (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Connecting a login flow to profiles.

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Login Flow Examples (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2020 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's example login flows.

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Security Health Check (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 8 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Health Check: scoring an org's security settings against a baseline.

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Take Charge of Your Security Goals with Security Center (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Security Center: security settings and permissions across many orgs.

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Preauthorize User App Access Through External Client App Policies (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2025 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Controlling which users can use an external client app.

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New Connected Apps Can No Longer Be Created in Spring '26 (Salesforce Help)
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The change from connected apps to external client apps, and its date.

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Security-Related Product Updates to the Salesforce Platform: User Identity, Data Protection, and Access Controls (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's list of upcoming security changes for identity, data protection and access.

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Preventing Connections from Anonymizing VPNs, Proxies and High-Risk IP Addresses (Salesforce Help)
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Salesforce blocking logins from anonymizing VPNs, proxies and high-risk addresses.

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Prepare for MFA Enforcement for All Employee Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The multi-factor authentication requirement for employee users, and its timeline.

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Prepare for Phishing-Resistant MFA Enforcement (privileged users) (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The phishing-resistant MFA requirement for privileged users, and its timeline.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › The Front Door: Logging In to Salesforce: Passwords and MFA

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Stay Secure with Proactive Health Check Notifications (Spring '26)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Health Check notifications that warn admins when a setting drifts.

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Refresh Token Idle TTL Is Limited to 30 Days (Winter '27)
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The limit on how long an unused refresh token stays valid.

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External users and sites

Section titled “External users and sites”
Configure Digital Experiences Settings (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The org-wide settings for Experience Cloud sites, including external user visibility.

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External Account Hierarchies Considerations (Salesforce Help)
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External account hierarchies: limits and behaviors.

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About High-Volume Community or Site Users (Salesforce Help)
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High-volume external users: the licenses, and how their records are shared without roles.

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Create a Sharing Set for Experience Cloud Site Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 7 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Sharing sets: giving high-volume users access to records that match their account or contact.

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Use Share Groups to Share Records Owned by High-Volume Experience Cloud Site Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 6 copies · 2019 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Share groups: sharing records that high-volume users own with other users.

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Delegate Site Administration to an External User (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2023 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Delegated external user administration: what an external admin can do for other users.

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Delegate Account Management to an External User (Salesforce Help)
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Delegated account management for external users.

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Configure Account Relationship Data Sharing Rules (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Account relationship data sharing rules: sharing between partner and customer accounts.

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Grant Portal Super User Access to Partner and Customer Users (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2021 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Super user access for partner and customer users: what records it opens.

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Limits, APIs and support

Section titled “Limits, APIs and support”
Salesforce Developer Limits and Allocations Quick Reference
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

The platform's limits and allocations in one place: API calls, Bulk API, SOQL and SOSL. Called the Salesforce Limits Quick Reference Guide in older editions.

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Bulk API Developer Guide
Release editions · 12 copies · Winter ’16 to Winter ’27 Current (opens in a new tab)

Loading and extracting data in bulk: jobs, batches, chunking and limits.

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SOAP API End-of-Life Policy
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How long Salesforce supports each API version (a minimum of three years) and which versions are retired.

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Data and File Storage Allocations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How much data, file and big object storage each edition gets.

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Event Relay (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 2 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Event Relay: sending platform events and change events to Amazon EventBridge.

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Salesforce Enterprise Edition Allocations (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

What Enterprise Edition includes: the counts and limits of features per org.

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Well-Architected

Section titled “Well-Architected”
Well-Architected Framework (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Salesforce's framework for healthy solutions: the Trusted, Easy and Adaptable qualities and the pillars under them.

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  • Data Architect › Thinking Like a Data Architect: overview

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Well-Architected: Trusted (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 4 copies · 2022 to 2025 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Trusted pillar: secure, compliant and reliable solutions.

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Well-Architected: Reliability (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Reliability: availability, performance, scalability and disaster recovery.

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Well-Architected: Scalability Patterns
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Patterns and anti-patterns for scale: Batch Apex for millions of records, partitioning by time, archiving historical data.

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Well-Architected: Operational Excellence (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

Operational excellence: running and changing solutions well over time.

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Well-Architected: Change Log (Salesforce Architects)
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Salesforce's own record of what changed in the framework, and when.

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Platform and architecture

Section titled “Platform and architecture”
The Salesforce Platform: Transformed for Tomorrow (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 3 copies · 2024 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

How the platform is built today: SalesforceDB for transactional work, Data 360 for analytics and AI at volume, Hyperforce.

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Platform Multitenant Architecture (Salesforce Architects)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 5 copies · 2022 to 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The multitenant, metadata-driven design: shared tables, pivot index tables, the query optimizer and governor limits.

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Certification

Section titled “Certification”
Salesforce Certified Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect Exam Guide (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The exam's sections, their weights and the format.

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Salesforce Certified Platform Identity and Access Management Architect Exam Guide (Salesforce Help)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The Identity and Access Management exam's sections and weights, for the topics it shares with Sharing and Visibility.

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  • Sharing & Visibility Architect › The Front Door: Logging In to Salesforce: Study guide

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Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect credential (Trailhead)
Living page · yearly archive copies · 1 copy · 2026 Current (opens in a new tab)

The credential's page: prerequisites, the exam and its maintenance.

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Which Edition Should You Use?

Section titled “Which Edition Should You Use?”

The current one, for anything you build or decide today: check the latest edition before you commit to a number. The older editions are there to explain the past. They tell you why an org you inherit was built the way it was, why older study material may quote different numbers, and how far the platform has come.

Salesforce’s support promise covers API versions (see API Versions above), not documents: there’s no matching promise for keeping old documents online. Salesforce has kept every edition on this page available so far, and the archived copies are the backup.

These are Salesforce’s documents. This page only links to them; it doesn’t copy them.