Category: Data Architecture and Management Certification

In Lightning Platform, Salesforce provides multiple options to administrators so that they can grant data access to different users, groups, teams. But there is something which is implemented and maintained by Salesforce which will also give relational data access to users based on their’s access to other records. In Lightning Platform, it is known as Implicit Sharing. Administrator cannot change the way implicit sharing works. So it is very important to understand the different types of implicit sharing we have in the platform.Nice to check out: Salesforce Spring 21 Release FeatureSalesforce Certification NotesSalesforce Release Video TutorialsSalesforce Lightning Flow Video TutorialsIn this blog post, I am going to explain different types of Implicit Sharing and how it works.To understand, let’s first consider the Account and Contact object. These two objects are linked with each other. So let’s say the Organization Wide Default for both Account and Contact are mentioned as Private, i.e. the record owner can see the records they created or owned.With the above assumptions, here are the different Implicit Sharing we have -Parent Implicit Sharing: This sharing provides read only access to parent record if the user is having access to the child record. Example – Refer the picture below. Here Bob is getting read-only access to Account because he is having access to the Contact (bcoz: Jimmy manually shared the contact with Bob). The level of Account access...