Delegated Admin

Delegated Admin

Delegated administration allows you to assign limited administrative privileges to users. Its purpose is to relieve the System Administrator of some of his workload. The System Administrator assign a limited admin privileges to one or more users. These delegated administrators can act in addition to the administrator on a part of User Management:

• Creating and editing new users,
• Resetting passwords,
• Unlocking users,
• Assigning roles and permission sets,
• Creating and managing public groups.

They can also manage custom objects and customize nearly every aspect of a custom object

• Managing their tab,
• Creating or editing fields, page layouts, record types,
• Validation rules.

To do this, the System Administrator must create a delegated group, consisting of different components:

• Users who have administrative rights,
• User Management (scope of roles, profiles, and permissions sets they may assign),
• Custom objects that delegate administrators can manage.

NB: The delegate group can be responsible for managing users or managing a custom object independently.

Caution: Giving delegated administration rights for a custom object also gives the ability to delete the object in its entirety.