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JBZJBZ 

Can you make fields accessible for formulas and hide them from reporting?


Is there a way around using field level security to make fields not reportable, but still accessible on page layouts and formulas?

BrendanOCBrendanOC

I believe this is only possible on Custom objects, not Standard objects. 

 

In general, if a user has security access to a record or field, you can't stop them from accessing that field.  If you do not wish them to view or modify a field or record, use Sharing, Profile CRUD, or Field Level Security to restrict their access.

 

You could take away the user's access to the field entirely, and create a Visualforce page to run with elevated privileges to expose that particular field.  That would prevent them from ever seeing that field unless its through your VF page.  If you go this route, be sure you don't accidentally expose more data than you intend to.
skodisanaskodisana

Hi,

 

Create the Report Type and hide the fields from reporting page layout.

for Report Types follow the below steps:

 

Setup-->Create-->Report Types.

 

 

Thanks,

Kodisana