Muting permissions in a permission set group
Key Takeaway
To remove a permission for the members of one permission set group, mute it in that group's muting permission set. Users who get the same permission from anywhere else keep it.
A muting permission set turns off (mutes) selected permissions inside a single permission set group, without changing the permission sets that the group contains. With muting, admins can reuse one broad permission set in several persona-based groups and still give each group only the access its users need.
What a muting permission set does
The users in a permission set group get every permission from the permission sets it includes. One permission set can be in several groups, so a group may grant more than a given role needs.
A muting permission set fixes this by muting selected permissions in that group. Each permission set group can have up to one muting permission set. A muting permission set can mute these kinds of access:
- Object permissions
- Field permissions
- User permissions
- Other access settings