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title: Determine If Sharing Inheritance Will Work for You
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description: To understand how well sharing inheritance can work for your dataset row-level sharing needs, review these supported objects, maximum number of sharing descriptors, and considerations. Use the Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment tool to evaluate and understand your object and user eligibility.
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# Determine If Sharing Inheritance Will Work for You

To understand how well sharing inheritance can work for your dataset row-level sharing needs, review these supported objects, maximum number of sharing descriptors, and considerations. Use the Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment tool to evaluate and understand your object and user eligibility.

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_important.png)

Important Sharing inheritance only works for Salesforce users. It isn’t available for Experience Cloud Sites users and logins. To provide security in Experience Cloud Sites, you must use security predicates.

## Supported Objects for Sharing Inheritance

Which Salesforce object does your dataset inherit sharing from? Each dataset can inherit sharing settings from one object, regardless of how many source objects are used to create it. Supported objects for sharing inheritance are:

- Account
- Case
- Contact
- Lead
- Opportunity

## Sharing Settings Change Frequency

How often do the sharing settings change for the source object (object selected to inherit sharing from), and how long can you wait for sharing inheritance to catch the change? Each full data sync captures sharing setting changes, so evaluate [your sync settings](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=bi_extract_data_incrementally_in_replication.htm&type=5&language=en_US). For more information, see [Security Metadata Drift](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=bi_security_datasets_sharing_drift.htm&type=5&language=en_US).

## Run the Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment Report

Does your object have any records or users with more than your org’s maximum sharing descriptors? And what is your org’s maximum sharing descriptors?

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_note.png)

Note A sharing descriptor is the ID of any user or group that has access to a record. Sharing descriptors, tracked by Salesforce in the Object Sharing Table, ensure that only the listed users and groups can access the correct records. IDs are added to the sharing table for many reasons including record ownership, sharing rules, and manual sharing.

After you turn on sharing inheritance, run the Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment report on an object. Then view the assessment’s user coverage to investigate how well sharing inheritance will work for you.

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_important.png)

Important The Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment only evaluates active users assigned the “Use CRM Analytics” permission.

1. In the Salesforce Setup menu, under Analytics, select **Sharing Inheritance Coverage Assessment**.
    
    ![The Sharing Inheritance Coverage option appears under Analytics in setup.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_integrate_setup_sharingInheritanceCoverageOption.png)
2. In the Salesforce Objects tab, choose the object to evaluate (1).
    
    ![Sharing Inheritance coverage assessment tool with the Object selector, View Assessment option, and the number of descriptors.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_sharing_inher_report.png)
3. Select **View Assessment** (2). Records from the evaluated object with more than your org’s maximum descriptors (3) are found. The top records with too many descriptors are listed along with their descriptor count.
    
    If records exceed the limit, depending on your org’s sharing strategy flexibility, choose to reduce the number of descriptors per record or contact Salesforce Support to evaluate whether higher limits are an option.
4. Select **View User Coverage** to see which users have more than the max descriptors on the selected object. The users not covered by sharing inheritance, who need a security predicate to manage their row-level access, are listed.