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I have a custom field in the Salesforce User object. I am trying to work out permissions. I only want the User’s manager and System Admins to be able to see this field.
Looking at the field-level security options, I see: Contract Manager. I worry that if I check this, ALL contract managers will be able to see this field. Is that the case?
Is there an easy way to accomplish this security policy and test it in a sandbox where I am not allowed to have many users?
You are correct, if you allow the Contract Manager profile to view that field via Field-Level Security, then ALL users assigned to that profile will be able to see the field, regardless of whether or not the user actually rolls up to them.
You should be able to show/hide this field based on some more advanced logic by embedding a small VF page into the User page layout. This will still require you to make the field visible via Field-Level Security, however, and will not allow you to hide it from other managers if they have access to the API (it would only be hidden from them on the page).