Understanding record ownership

Record ownership is central to the access capabilities built into the Salesforce platform. This ownership allows you to specify which users should be able to access specific records. Every record created in Salesforce has an owner. An owner is a user in the system (such as the user we created in the previous section). At a minimum, the record owner would have access to the record they own. This access can then be expanded to other users using various sharing and visibility features that were covered in Chapter 10, An Overview of Sharing and Visibility. All organizations have some level of independent work, ad hoc collaboration, and structured collaboration. These use cases are all covered by record ownership and sharing features built into the Salesforce platform. Figure 11.5 below shows the record owner field, in this case, Account Owner. The owner field on all objects determines who the owner of the record is.

The only exception to this...