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title: How to Set Permissions in Kintone Apps
description: Kintone's permission settings in allow you to easily determine who can manage, view, edit, and delete an app, record or field.
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# How to Set Permissions in Kintone Apps

May 17, 2018   |   by [Larissa Suguitan](https://blog.kintone.com/company-news/author/larissa-squires)

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Kintone's permission settings in app allow you to easily determine who can manage, view, edit, and delete an app, record or field.

There are three levels of permissions you can set. 

1. **App Level**
2. **Record Level**
3. **Field Level**

This very powerful feature can sometimes take practice to understand. When in doubt, remembering that App Level takes priority over Record Level, and Record Level takes priority over Field Level. To learn more about how different levels interact with each other (and which you should use when setting permissions, watch the video below.

Have further questions? Please email [support@kintone.com](mailto:support@kintone.com) or explore the [Kintone Help Center](https://get.kintone.help/hc/en-us).

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