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Implicit Sharing

Built-in sharing between parent accounts and their child contacts, opportunities and cases that cannot be configured.

Definition

Users with access to a child record such as an opportunity get read-only access to the parent account (parent implicit sharing). The account owner gets access to child records based on role settings (child implicit sharing).

Exam tip

Explains why a user can see an Account they were never explicitly shared: they own a child record.

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