Tips & Hints for Sharing Data

Salesforce provides many flexible options for you to control how records are shared within your organization. To specify the objects and tabs that a user can access, assign a profile. To specify the individual records that a user can view and edit, set your organization-wide defaults, define a role hierarchy, and create sharing rules.

In this tip sheet you will learn about the following:

  • Granting Access to Objects with Profiles
  • Specifying Default Access to Records with Organization-Wide Defaults
  • Sharing Records with a Role Hierarchy
  • Sharing Records with Sharing Rules
  • The Big Picture for Sharing Records


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