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ProfileSkill

Represents a profile skill, which describes a user’s professional knowledge. This is a global record for the organization, and users are associated through the ProfileSkillUser object.

For information about Live Agent skills, see the Skill topic.

Note

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), undelete(), update(), upsert()

Fields

Field Name	Details
Description	Type textarea Properties Create, Nillable, Update Description Description of the profile skill.
LastReferencedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp indicating when the current user last viewed a record related to this profile skill. Available in API version 29.0 and later.
LastViewedDate	Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp indicating when the current user last viewed this profile skill. Available in API version 29.0 and later.
Name	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort, Update Description The name of the profile skill.
OwnerId	Type reference Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description The owner of the profile skill. This is a polymorphic relationship field. Relationship Name Owner Relationship Type Lookup Refers To Group, User
UserCount	Type int Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The number of users with the profile skill.

Usage

Use the ProfileSkill object to look up the attributes of a skill that can be assigned to a user. This is a global object and is not owned by any specific user.

Associated Objects

This object has the following associated objects. Unless noted, they are available in the same API version as this object.

ProfileSkillFeed (API version 34.0): Feed tracking is available for the object.
ProfileSkillHistory: History is available for tracked fields of the object.
ProfileSkillOwnerSharingRule: Sharing rules are available for the object.
ProfileSkillShare: Sharing is available for the object.

Object Reference for the Salesforce Platform

ProfileSkill

Supported Calls

Fields

Usage

Associated Objects