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icemft1976icemft1976 

Proper way to test if user has Field Level 'edit' permission

Can someone point me to the documentation of the proper way to query if a user (or the user's profile) has edit permission at an Object's field level?

 

example  -  "If  the user's $Profile has permission to edit a Contact's email field, display this apex:outputText message on the visualforce page" 

 

pseudocode -  <apex:outputText render="$Profile.hasPermission(Contact.email, 'Edit')"> Important Message about Emails! </apex:outputText>
 

 I know I could hard code permission checks based on Profile Names/Ids (but I would like to avoid this practice - if I can). 
 
I tried using getDescribe to traverse the Profile->Permissions relationships but I couldn't do it.
 
Thanks for any pointers! 
Message Edited by icemft1976 on  03-16-2010 10:09 AM
Message Edited by icemft1976 on  03-16-2010 10:55 AM


Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
icemft1976icemft1976
For anyone who didn't take to time to read the docs - ahem - here it is: 
 
SF DEV wiki article