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Share User Records

Your administrator defines your organization’s sharing model and default access levels for user records. If the organization-wide default access is set to Private or Public Read Only, you can extend sharing privileges for your own user record. However, you can’t restrict access below your organization’s default access levels.
Available in: Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

User Permissions Needed
To view user records: Read on user records

You can share external user records, such as external community users and customer portal or partner portal users. You can also share an internal user record with an external user. To view and manage sharing details, click Sharing on the user detail page. The Sharing Detail page lists the users, groups, roles, and territories that have sharing access to the user record. On this page, you can perform these tasks.

  • To show a filtered list of items, select a predefined list from the View drop-down list, or click Create New View to define your own custom views. To edit or delete any view you created, select it from the View drop-down list and click Edit.
  • Grant access to the record for other users, groups, roles, or territories by clicking Add. This method of granting access is also known as manual sharing of your user records.
  • Edit or delete the manual share by clicking Edit or Del next to the rule.

An administrator can disable or enable manual user record sharing for all users.