As a Salesforce Admin, our Sales Manager requests the addition of a new field on the Account record page. As I open Account record, and click the gear icon to customize the page.
Usually, you expect to see the Edit Page option, which allows you to open the Lightning App Builder. But this time, the Edit Page option is missing. You try refreshing the page and even logging out and back in, but the option is still not there.
In this article, we will discuss how to resolve the issue where the edit page option is missing in Salesforce Lightning.
After trying multiple solutions, we found a few that helped address some of the common reasons for the issue. And in this tutorial, we will cover all these solutions step by step.
Edit Page Option Missing in Salesforce Lightning- Reasons
Before jumping to the solutions, let us discuss the common reasons why the Edit page option is missing in Salesforce Lightning.
In this section, we will discuss some of the common reasons why the Edit page option is missing in Salesforce Lightning.
Reason 1: Lack of User Permissions
The Edit page option in Salesforce is utilized to modify the Lightning page in Salesforce Lightning. However, for this task, we need proper permission to edit the page. Generally, in Salesforce Lightning, we require the Customize Application permission.
Therefore, if the user does not have the Customize Application permission, the Edit page option will not appear for that user.
Reason 2: Incorrect Page Type
In Salesforce Lightning, the Edit Page option is available for community and standard record pages. However, we try to access this option for some other sort of page, the Edit Page option will not appear.
Reason 3: Lack of Lightning App Builder Access
Usually, whenever we click on the Edit Page option, it opens the Lightning App Builder page, which is utilized to modify the page layout. However, if the user does not have proper access to the Lightning App Builder, they will not be granted access to the Edit Page option.
As a result, the Edit Page option will not be visible in