Why do we use Apex sharing?

Why do we use Apex sharing?

Creating Apex Managed Sharing Apex managed sharing is maintained across record owner changes. Apex managed sharing must use an Apex sharing reason . Apex sharing reasons are a way for developers to track why they shared a record with a user or group of users.

When should I use programmatic sharing?

Programmatic Sharing Capabilities

  1. Allows the record owner or any user with Full Access to a record to share the record with a user or group of users.
  2. Only the record owner and users above the owner in the role hierarchy are granted Full Access to the record.

What are apex sharing rules?

Sharing is the act of granting a user or group of users permission to perform a set of actions on a record or set of records. Sharing access can be granted using the Salesforce user interface and Lightning Platform, or programmatically using Apex.

What does it mean to use apex managed sharing?

Apex managed sharing allows developers to programmatically share custom objects. When you use Apex managed sharing to share the custom object, only users with the “Modify All Data” permission can add or change the sharing on the custom object’s record, and the sharing access is maintained across record owner changes.

What does it mean to share a record in apex?

Apex managed sharing enables developers to programmatically manipulate sharing to support their application’s behavior through Apex or the SOAP API. This type of sharing is similar to managed sharing. Only users with “Modify All Data” permission can add or change Apex managed sharing on a record.

How to create apex based sharing for standard objects?

As Apex Sharing Reason not available for Standard objects only way to create Apex based sharing for Standard objects are using row cause Manual As row cause is Manual for Standard objects, Apex based sharing would be lost once owner is changed [Because its behavior of Manual Sharing]

Which is the default access level for apex?

The object’s organization-wide default access level must not be set to the most permissive access level. For custom objects, this level is Public Read/Write. For more information, see Understanding Sharing.