Salesforce Summer '19 brought about some critical updates. One such critical update is that users will require to use the Customize Application Permission for Direct Read Access to Custom Settings. The reason behind this update is that Salesforce follows a "secure by default" approach meaning those that should have the permission, will need to have it actively enabled. This change affects Visualforce pages and Lightning components that directly reference custom settings.
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Administrators will also need to have Customize Application set to true in order to have for direct read access to custom settings, manage custom permissions and manage translations. This can either be added to the Permission Set (only for this permission set can then only be used with Salesforce Licenses) or added to the Admin Profile.
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Please note that setting Customize Application to true will automatically set Manage Custom Permissions and Manage Translation to true. |
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