README.md

Overview

This repo was created in response to this question on StackExchange:

We wish to create a scratch org that has the Enable "Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation" and "Update Records with Inactive Owners" User Permissions setting checked. Is there a scratch org definition file option available to do this that I'm not seeing. Or failing that is there a programmatic way of setting the setting?

These instructions handle two steps:

1. Setting the User Interface setting of Enable "Set Audit Fields upon Record Creation" and "Update Records with Inactive Owners" User Permissions
2. Assigning a permission set that adds this setting to the default user

From an existing repo and scratch org

1. In the source org
   • Run sfdx force:source:retrieve -m Settings:Security
   • Search the retrieved file for enableAuditFieldsInactiveOwner and set the value to true. Save the file.
2. In a new scratch org
   • Run sfdx force:source:deploy -m Settings:Security immediately after creating the scratch org
   • Run sfdx force:source:push as usual
   • If needed, assign any needed permission sets using sfdx force:user:permset:assign --permsetname [yourauditfieldpermset]

Why should this work?

Basically, you need to enable the set audit fields setting for the org before you attempt to add it to any permission sets or profiles. If you try to enable the setting and push the permission set at the same time, it'll fail silently--the rest of the permission set will go through, but not that piece.

Contents of this repo (samples)

• Simple security settings file with the audit fields setting enabled
• Permission set that allows "set audit fields upon creation"