Sharing rules allow you to open up access to records based on record ownership (which is based on ownership) or specific criteria ( which is based on criteria) on a record such as a specific field value.
Using sharing rules
A business use case
As the Salesforce admin for XYZ Widgets, you need to open up view access to accounts owned by a specific user with a specified team leader. You decide to use an account-sharing rule.
Applying sharing rules
Let's take a look at how we can access these settings. As the following screenshot shows, we can access this setting from...
