Controlling Access to Records

By setting object- and field-level access rules for each of our three user profiles, we have effectively defined all of the objects and fields that any one of our Recruiting app users can access. In this section, we’ll focus on setting permissions for the actual records themselves—should our users have open access to every record, or just a subset? If it’s a subset, what rules should determine whether the user can access them? We’ll use a variety of platform security and sharing tools to address these questions and make sure we get it right.

Introducing Organization-Wide Defaults

When dealing with record-level access settings, the first thing we need to do is to determine the organization-wide defaults (commonly ...

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