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Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP
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Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Paul Goodey, Paul Goodey GP

Overview of this book

Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook is the complete guide to implementing Salesforce CRM. Whether you are looking to enhance the core features or you have already started customizing your Salesforce CRM system and are looking for guidance on advanced features. This book will show you how to get maximum benefit from this exciting product.Salesforce CRM is a market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) application that is accessed over the Internet. The CRM application provides facilities to manage sales projections and orders, marketing plans, business process automation and collaboration, service and support, and data analytics. The application greatly enhances a company's sales performance, improves team work and collaboration, and provides a robust customer relationship management strategy for an organization.Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook has been updated for the Spring '13 release and gives you all the information you need to administer this powerful CRM application.The book begins with the setup of users and security settings and then progresses to configuration, data management, and data analytics. Finally, the book covers the ways in which the core platform can be further extended and enhanced.Focused on the needs of the enterprise, this book provides a solution-driven approach for both business and IT specialists to get the most from the Salesforce CRM application. It begins with setting up of organization-wide features that affect the look-and-feel of the application. We will then move on to data management, analytics, process automation and approval mechanisms are then covered, along with the functional areas of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Chatter. Finally, we will look into the methods used to further enhance the system and to improve the return on investment from the application.After reading Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook, you will feel comfortable with the administration features within Salesforce CRM and will have been presented with real-world scenarios to improve the setup and avoid some common pitfalls.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Data Analytics with Reports and Dashboards
Index

Organization-wide sharing defaults (OWD)


Organization-wide sharing settings are used to define the default sharing settings for an organization. For most objects, Organization-wide sharing settings can be set to Private, Public Read Only, or Public Read/Write.

Organization-wide sharing default settings, often referred to in Salesforce CRM as OWDs, specify the default level of access to records and can be set separately for most of the objects in Salesforce such as accounts, contacts, and activities.

As shown in the preceding diagram along with the user's profile, the OWD defines the baseline level of access to data records that users do not own. The diagram represents the visibility or data access which is increasing as the other features are incorporated to provide wider sharing settings.

To customize your OWD settings, navigate to Your Name | Setup | Administration Setup | Security Controls | Sharing Settings. Now click on Edit in the Organization-wide defaults area and then for each object...