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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › Explain Organization wide default (OWD) in Salesforce.

    Tagged: Manual Sharing, Organization Wide Default, OWD, Private Field, Read Only, Read Write, Record Sharing, Role Hierarchy, Salesforce Instance, Sharing Rules

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      Explain Organization wide default (OWD) in Salesforce.

      Posted by Anjali on August 31, 2018 at 12:50 PM

      Explain Organization wide default (OWD) in Salesforce.

      Parul replied 8 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
      • Manual Sharing
      • Organization Wide Default
      • OWD
      • Private Field
      • Read Only
      • Read Write
      • Record Sharing
      • Role Hierarchy
      • Salesforce Instance
      • Sharing Rules
    • 3 Replies
    • Avnish Yadav

      Member
      August 31, 2018 at 12:57 PM

      Hi Anjali,

      OWD stands for Organization-wide defaults. This setting is defined at object level. OWD defined the default record level sharing for objects. All profiles get at least the privileges defined in OWD. OWD takes three different values -

      A. Private
      B. Public Read-only
      C. Public Read-Write

      To find out what should be set as OWD for an object, first find out which user requires least access to an object. OWD is set based upon this users access requirements.
      Most restrictive record access is defined using OWD. Access to additional records is made available through Role hierarchy, Sharing rules, Manual sharing.

      Thanks.

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    • madhulika shah

      Member
      August 31, 2018 at 1:05 PM

      Hi Anjali,

      Organization-Wide Defaults, or OWDs, are the baseline security you for your Salesforce instance. Organizational Wide Defaultsare used to restrict access. You grant access through other means we will talk about later (sharing rules, Role Hierarchy, Sales Teams and Account teams, manual sharing, etc).

    • Parul

      Member
      September 24, 2018 at 12:10 AM

      There are four levels of access that can be set:
      Public Read/Write/Transfer (only available of Leads and Cases)
      Public Read/Write
      Public Read/Only
      Private

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