OWD, often referred to in Salesforce CRM as OWD sharing settings, are used to specify the level of access that applies to the data that resides in an organization. For most data and its containing objects, the OWD sharing settings can be set to one of the following:
- Public Full Access
- Public Read/Write/Transfer
- Public Read/Write
- Public Read Only
- Private
- Price Book-sharing settings
OWD sharing settings specify the default level of access to records and can be configured specifically for most of the objects in Salesforce, such as accounts, contacts, leads, and activities.
When setting up the OWD sharing settings, you can set the access level for internal users using the Default Internal Access settings and use the Default External Access settings to apply different default access levels for external users. Here, external users are part of the community...
