Concepts of OWD

Organization-Wide Default is also known as OWD. This is the base-level sharing and setting of objects in your organization. By using this, you can secure your data so that other users can't access data that they don't have access to. The following diagram shows the basic database security in Salesforce. In this, OWD plays a key role.

It's a base-level object setting in the organization, and you can't go below this. So here, we will discuss OWD in Salesforce.

Let's start with an example. Sagar Pareek is the system administrator in Appiuss. His manager Sara Barellies told him that the user who has created or owns the account records as well as the users that are higher in the role hierarchy can access the records.

Here, you have to think first about OWD because it is the basic thing to restrict object-level access in Salesforce. To achieve this, Sagar Pareek has to set Organization-Wide Default for the account object to private.

Setting up OWD

To change or update OWD for your organization...