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UserRole

Represents a user role in your organization.

This object was called “Role” in previous versions of the API documentation.

Note

Supported Calls

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

Special Access Rules

As of Summer ’20 and later, only users with the View Roles and Role Hierarchy permission can access this object, and only users with the Manage Roles permission can edit this object.

Fields

Field	Details
CaseAccessForAccountOwner	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description The case access level for the account owner.
ContactAccessForAccountOwner	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description The contact access level for the account owner. When DefaultContactAccess is set to `Controlled by Parent`, you can’t create or update this field. Note
DeveloperName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The unique name of the object in the API. This name can contain only underscores and alphanumeric characters, and must be unique in your org. It must begin with a letter, not include spaces, not end with an underscore, and not contain two consecutive underscores. In managed packages, this field prevents naming conflicts on package installations. With this field, a developer can change the object's name in a managed package and the changes are reflected in a subscriber's organization. Corresponds to Role Name in the user interface. This field is available in API version 24.0 and later. When creating large sets of data, always specify a unique DeveloperName for each record. If no DeveloperName is specified, performance slows down while Salesforce generates one for each record.
ForecastUserId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The ID of the forecast manager associated with this role. Label is User ID.
IsPartner	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter Description Indicates whether the user role is a partner who has access to the partner portal (`true`) or not (`false`). This field is not available for release 9.0 and later. Instead, use PortalType with the value `Partner`.
MayForecastManagerShare	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description Indicates whether the forecast manager can manually share their own forecast.
Name	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Sort, Update Description Required. Name of the role. Corresponds to Label on the user interface.
OpportunityAccessForAccountOwner	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update Description Required. The opportunity access level for the account owner. Note that you can’t set a user role with an opportunity access less than that specified in organization-wide defaults.
ParentRoleId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The ID of the parent role.
PortalAccountId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the role’s associated portal account. This field is read-only.
PortalAccountOwnerId	Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the role’s associated portal account’s owner. This field is read-only.
PortalRole	Type picklist Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description The portal role: Executive, Manager, User, or PersonAccount.
PortalType	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Restricted picklist, Sort Description This value indicates the type of portal for the role: None: Salesforce application role. CustomerPortal: Customer portal role. Partner: partner portal role. The field IsPartner used in release 8.0 will map to this value. This field replaces IsPartner beginning with release 9.0.
RollupDescription	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Description of the forecast rollup. Label is Description.

Usage

Use this object to query the set of currently configured user roles in your organization. Use it in your client application to obtain valid UserRole IDs to use when querying or modifying a User record.

Users with the View Roles and Role Hierarchy permission can query or describe this object. If your client application logs in with the “Manage Users” permission, it can query, create, update, or delete UserRole records.

You can’t update any field for a portal role.

Note

For example, the following code finds all roles that are not assigned to any users.

Object Reference for the Salesforce Platform

UserRole

Supported Calls

Special Access Rules

Fields

Usage

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