Protecting Force.com Custom Sharing Code

The Force.com platform includes a large set of powerful tools for configuring users’ access to application data.

• Organization-wide default sharing models
• Role hierarchy
• Public groups
• Ownership- and criteria-based sharing rules
• The Salesforce Territory Management feature

These platform features can handle almost any security use case you have, but sometimes your requirements are so unique and specific that you have to write custom code to manage them. Unfortunately, when you do this, you have to play a little defense to protect the shares that you write against some of the automatic sharing behavior of the platform. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some advanced sharing features and coding strategies you can use to keep Force.com from messing with your sharing code.

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Related Resources

• Dynamic Data Sharing on Force.com
• Designing Record Access for Enterprise Scale
• Understanding Apex Managed Sharing
• Using Apex Managed Sharing to Create Custom Record Sharing Logic
• An Overview of Force.com Security
• Architect Core Resources