Difference Between Salesforce Role And Profile?

Hi,

Roles :- Using we can provide record level access like organization wide defaults, Role hierarchy, sharing rules and Manual sharing. Simply roles influences record level access. Role is nothing but hierarchy in the org. while creating the user profile is mandatory but profile is not mandatory.

Profiles :- Using  profile object level and field level access can be made like general permissions, tab level permissions, read & write permissions etc. Profile is nothing but What type of Permission will give to users, We have many types of permissions i.e. general permission ,tab level permission,object level permission,read&write permission,record type permission.

Thanks

Hello,

Profiles help to control object privileges such as CRED (Create, Read, Edit, Delete). They also contain system permissions that a user can carry out such as exporting data.
Roles on the other hand help with sharing records across an organization. They work in a hierarchical fashion, giving users access to records that are owned by people lower down in the hierarchy.

Thanks.

Hi Aman,

Profiles control a user's object- and field-level access permissions whereas roles control a user's record-level access permissions through role hierarchy and sharing rules.