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how to share a record in salesforce

by Rafaela Hauck Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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How can we share records in Salesforce?

  • Click Sharing on the record you want to share.
  • Click Add.
  • From the drop-down list, select the type of group, user, role, or territory to add.
  • Choose the specific groups, users, roles, or territories requiring access by adding the names to the New Sharing list.

Click Sharing on the record you want to share. Click Add. From the drop-down list, select the type of group, user, role, or territory to add. Choose the specific groups, users, roles, or territories requiring access by adding the names to the New Sharing list.

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How do I share a record programmatically in Salesforce?

Sharing a Record Using Apex To access sharing programmatically, you must use the share object associated with the standard or custom object for which you want to share. For example, AccountShare is the sharing object for the Account object, ContactShare is the sharing object for the Contact object.

How do I share a Salesforce object?

Salesforce administrators are able to share any Salesforce object. However, most Salesforce users can only share objects that are owned by themselves or their subordinates. If you want to stop sharing an object, click “Stop Sharing” in the object’s External Sharing related list.

What happens to manual share records in Salesforce Lightning?

When this occurs on an account then any manual share records created by the original owner on child opportunities and cases will also be removed. Salesforce introduced manual sharing for Lightning in Spring 21. This will help many organizations more easily make the leap from classic to Lightning.

How are manual share records removed from an account in Salesforce?

When a user updates the owner on a record, Salesforce will automatically remove any manual share records that were created by the original owner. When this occurs on an account then any manual share records created by the original owner on child opportunities and cases will also be removed.

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How to create an Apex sharing reason?

To create an Apex sharing reason: From the management settings for the custom object, click New in the Apex Sharing Reasons related list. Enter a label for the Apex sharing reason. The label displays in the Reason column when viewing the sharing for a record in the user interface.

Why use multiple Apex reasons?

Using multiple Apex sharing reasons simplifies the coding required to make updates and deletions of sharing records. They also enable developers to share with the same user or group multiple times using different reasons. Apex sharing reasons are defined on an object's detail page.

What is Apex shared?

Apex managed sharing must use an Apex sharing reason. Apex sharing reasons are a way for developers to track why they shared a record with a user or group of users.

Why can I access my account?

Users can access an account because they can access its child records (contact, case, opportunity, and so on). If an account sharing rule is created, the sharing rule row cause (which is a higher access level) replaces the parent implicit share row cause, indicating the higher level of access. Important.

Can you grant access to unauthenticated users in Apex?

You can't grant access to unauthenticated guest users using Apex. You can share a standard or custom object with users or groups. For more information about the types of users and groups you can share an object with, see User and Group in the Object Reference for Salesforce.

What is Salesforce?

Before diving into the benefits of Salesforce and Salesforce to Salesforce connections, let’s take a better look at what the Salesforce platform is all about. Looking at the history of Salesforce, the company was founded by Marc Benioff shortly after Netsuite was created.

Why Share Data from Salesforce to Salesforce?

There are a variety of reasons why Salesforce customers use Salesforce as either a data source or destination.

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For starters, you’ll need to configure Salesforce to accept Salesforce to Salesforce (S2S) connections. To do so, follow these steps:

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Setting up S2S data integrations is one issue—but how do you do so in the most efficient and effective manner? In this section, we’ll discuss 3 best practices you need to know about sharing Salesforce to Salesforce data.

Salesforce to Salesforce with Integrate.io

You have multiple options at hand for performing Salesforce to Salesforce integrations, including both third-party data integration software tools and Salesforce internal tools. In most cases, choosing a third-party data integration tool such as Integrate.io is simpler and more cost-effective than doing Salesforce integrations yourself.

How Integrate.io Can Help

Ultimately, Salesforce to Salesforce integrations can offer many benefits to organizations. However, setting up these configurations on your own can prove quite timely. Luckily, Integrate.io is here to help you with all of your Salesforce to Salesforce integration needs, helping you get everything set up in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

How to Transfer and Share a Record in Salesforce

In Salesforce, most records have an owner who is responsible for them. That person has the highest level of access to those records. They can assign them to someone else or edit them as much as they want.

Share an Account

Depending on how your Salesforce is configured, other users may not be able to see the Accounts that you own. You can give other users permissions to view your Accounts by sharing them.

What is manual sharing in Salesforce?

In organizations using a private sharing model, there may be some situations where automated sharing rules will not give the required level of flexibility. Sometimes there might be a one-off occasion where a user needs to allow another user to view or edit a record they own. This is where manual sharing comes in handy.

Who can share a record manually in Salesforce?

There are some limitations around who can share a record using the manual sharing button in Salesforce.

Enable manual sharing in Salesforce Lightning

Salesforce introduced manual sharing for Lightning in Spring 21. This will help many organizations more easily make the leap from classic to Lightning.

Enable manual sharing in Salesforce Classic

The steps for enabling manual sharing in Salesforce classic are identical to the steps for Lightning. We just need to make a small change in the page layout.

Salesforce Lighting Manual Sharing - how to use it?

Now that we’ve set up manual sharing in Lightning let’s look at how we can use it. Navigate to a record that will show you the page layout you have modified.

View who has access to a record in Salesforce Lightning

We can view who has access to a record in Salesforce Lightning by using the sharing button. See above for instructions on adding the manual share button to a lighting record page.

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