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description: Salesforce offers many optional features that allow you additional control over what data your users can access. As you decide which features to configure for your Salesforce org’s data access strategy, review these features and their applications.
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# Additional Features that Control Data Access

Salesforce offers many optional features that allow you additional control over what data your users can access. As you decide which features to configure for your Salesforce org’s data access strategy, review these features and their applications.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">The available user and data management options vary according to which Salesforce Edition you have.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d71068e60">Feature</th>
          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d71068e63">Description</th>
          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d71068e66">Resources</th>
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      </thead>
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          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Account Teams</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">
            <p>Allow users to collaborate on account records more easily. An account owner, a user
              above the owner in the hierarchy, or an admin can add team members and specify the access
              level each team member has to the account record.</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Account teams can be more efficient than
              manually sharing an account record with individual team members or requiring the admin to
              set up public groups and sharing rules for the team’s access to the account.</p>
          </td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.accountteam.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Collaborate on Accounts by Using
              Teams</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Apex Sharing</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">
            <p>Build sophisticated custom logic to define record-level access.</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Apex sharing can be
              used when record access requirements can’t be met by other sharing features. For example,
              use for integrating existing external data access systems, very large sharing volumes, or
              for team functionality on custom objects. </p>
          </td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <p>
              <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.meta/apexcode/apex_bulk_sharing.htm" target="_blank">Understanding Apex Managed
                Sharing</a>
            </p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_apex_sharing_reasons.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Create Apex Sharing
                Reasons</a>
            </p>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Case Teams</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">Create case teams to help groups of people work together to solve cases. For
            example, a case team can include support agents, support managers, and product
            managers.</td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.caseteam_setup.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Case Teams</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Compliant Data Sharing</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">Only available in Financial Services Cloud. Configure advanced data sharing rules that
            are in compliance with regulations and company policies</td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.fsc_admin_cds.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Compliant Data Sharing</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Data Spaces</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">Only available in Salesforce Data Cloud. Organize your data for profile unification,
            insights, and marketing in Data Cloud. You can segregate your data, metadata, and processes
            into categories, such as brand, region, or department, and then enable users to see and work
            on data only in the context of their category.</td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_spaces.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Manage Data Spaces</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
        <tr class="">
          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Enterprise Territory Management</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">Define record access and ownership based on geographic territories. Use if your teams’
            account coverage is based on territories.</td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.tm2_intro.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Enterprise Territory
              Management</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
        <tr class="">
          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Folder Sharing</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">A folder is a place where you can store reports, dashboards, documents, files, or
            email templates. Folders can be private or shared with other users. You control who
            has access to its contents based on assigned permissions, roles, public groups, and
            territories. You can make a folder available to your entire organization, or make it
            private so that only the owner and users with certain permissions have access.</td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <p>
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.analytics_folder_access.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Access Levels for Report and
                Dashboard Folders</a>
            </p>
            <p>
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.template_select_users_folder_create_share.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Select Which Users Can Create
                and Share Email Template Folders</a>
            </p>
            <p>
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.classic_create_folder_email_templates.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Create and Edit Email Template
                Folders in Salesforce Classic</a>
            </p>
            <p>
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_files_upload_share.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">File Privacy and
                Sharing</a>
            </p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_files_document_folders.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Create and Edit Document
                Folders</a>
            </p>
          </td>

        </tr>
        <tr class="">
          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Opportunity Teams</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">
            <p>Allow users to collaborate on opportunity records more easily. An opportunity owner, a
              user above the owner in the hierarchy, or an admin can add team members and specify the
              access level each team member has to the opportunity record.</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Opportunity teams can be more
              efficient than manually sharing an opportunity record with individual team members or
              requiring the admin to set up public groups and sharing rules for the team’s access to the
              opportunity.</p>
          </td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.opp_team_manage.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Collaborate on Deals with Opportunity
              Teams</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
        <tr class="">
          <td data-label="Feature" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e60 ">Queues</td>

          <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e63 ">
            <p>Manage and assign records to teams who share workloads. Queue members and users higher
              in the role hierarchy can access queues from list views and take ownership of records in a
              queue.</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Queues are available for cases, contact requests, leads, orders, custom objects,
              service contracts, and knowledge article versions.</p>
          </td>

          <td data-label="Resources" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d71068e66 ">
            <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.queues_overview.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Set Up Queues</a>
          </td>

        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>