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Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

By : Mohit Shrivatsava
Book Image

Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

By: Mohit Shrivatsava

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Salesforce Essentials for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Organization-wide sharing defaults


Before we dive deep and understand OWD in detail, it's important to recall the profile that provided us with the ability to perform Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations such as create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) access for the user. This chapter will discuss how we can control record-level access across users. OWD defines the base level security for an object across the organization. It is the default level of access as well. Let's first define the various types of OWD settings that can be configured for an object.

The following table summarizes the various values that can be set for OWD for an object:

OWD settings (for an object)

Description

Private

The records, by default, will be visible only to the owner. For a standard object, we will see that the Grant Access Using Hierarchies option is checked, which implies that the record will be visible to all users who are higher in the role hierarchy than the current user. We will soon define...