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Control Manual Sharing for User Records
Enable or prevent users from sharing their own user records with other users across the organization.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To enable or disable manual user record sharing: | Manage Users |
You can control whether the Sharing button is displayed on user detail pages. This button enables a user to grant others access to the user’s own user record. You can hide or display this button for all users by following these steps.
- From Setup, in the Quick find box, enter Sharing Settings, then select Sharing Settings.
- Click Edit in the Organization-Wide Defaults area.
- Select the Manual User Record Sharing checkbox to display the Sharing button on user detail pages, which enables users to share their records with others. Or deselect the checkbox to hide the button, which prevents users from sharing their user records with others.
- Click Save.
When the organization-wide default for users is set to Public Read Only, users get read access to all other user records, can see those users in search and list views, and can interact with those users on Chatter and Experience Builder sites.
Example For example, a partner user wants to collaborate with the sales
representative in a community or forum. If you’ve disabled the Site User
Visibility checkbox in the Sharing Settings page, site users can
only be seen by themselves and their superiors in the role hierarchy. You can use
manual sharing to grant the partner user read access to the sales representative
by using the Sharing button on the sales representative’s user detail page.
This access enables both parties to interact and collaborate in sites.
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