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title: Edit Sharing Rules
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description: You can edit the label, rule name, and sharing access level for all sharing rules. Depending on the rule type, you can also edit additional settings. If you must edit other fields in the sharing rule, like who is granted access, delete the rule and create a new one.
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# Edit Sharing Rules

You can edit the label, rule name, and sharing access level for all sharing rules. Depending on the rule type, you can also edit additional settings. If you must edit other fields in the sharing rule, like who is granted access, delete the rule and create a new one.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and
              Lightning Experience</td>

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              <p>Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>,
                <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions
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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">See <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_rule_considerations.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Review these considerations before using sharing rules.">Sharing Rule Considerations</a> for more information on availability.</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d61834e85 ">To create sharing rules:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d61834e85 ">Manage Sharing</td>

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1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Sharing Settings, then select **Sharing Settings**.
2. In the Sharing Rules related list for the object, click **Edit**.
3. Change the label and rule name if desired.
4. If you selected a rule that's based on owner or group membership, skip to the next step. If you selected a criteria-based or guest user sharing rule, specify the criteria that records must match to be included in the sharing rule. The fields available depend on the object selected, and the value must be a literal number or string. To change the AND relationship between filters, click **Add Filter Logic**.
    
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    Note You must create guest user sharing rules to open up record access to guest users. Keep in mind that the guest user sharing rule type grants access to users without login credentials. By creating a guest user sharing rule, you're allowing immediate and unlimited access to all records matching the sharing rule's criteria to anyone. To secure your Salesforce data and give your guest users access to what they need, consider all the use cases and implications of creating this type of sharing rule. Implement security controls that you think are appropriate for the sensitivity of your data. Salesforce is not responsible for any exposure of your data to unauthenticated users based on this change from default settings.
5. Select sharing access settings for users. Some access settings aren’t available for some objects or in some situations.
    
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__AccessSetting"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__AccessSetting"><!-- --></a>Access Setting</span>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__Description"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__Description"><!-- --></a>Description</span>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__Private"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__Private"><!-- --></a>Private</span>
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                    <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__PrivateDescription"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__PrivateDescription"><!-- --></a>Users can’t view or update records, unless access is
                      granted outside of this sharing rule.</span>
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                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available only for associated contacts,
                    opportunities, and cases.</p>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadOnly"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadOnly"><!-- --></a>Read Only</span>
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                    <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadOnlyDescription"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadOnlyDescription"><!-- --></a>Users can view, but not update, records.</span>
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                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Guest
                    user sharing rules can only grant Read Only access.</p>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadWrite"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadWrite"><!-- --></a>Read/Write</span>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadWriteDescription"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__ReadWriteDescription"><!-- --></a>Users can view and update records.</span>
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                  <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__FullAccess"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__FullAccess"><!-- --></a>Full Access</span>
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                    <span id="security_sharing_rules_edit__FullAccessDescription"><a name="security_sharing_rules_edit__FullAccessDescription"><!-- --></a>Users in the selected group, role, or territory can
                      view, edit, transfer, delete, and share the record, just like the record’s
                      owner.</span>
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                  <p>With a Full Access sharing rule, users can also view, edit, delete, and
                    close activities associated with the record if the org-wide sharing setting for
                    activities is Controlled by Parent.</p>
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available for campaigns only.</p>
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    Note Contact Access isn’t available when the organization-wide default for contacts is set to Controlled by Parent.
6. Click **Save**.

After updates to sharing rules, sharing rules are recalculated to add or remove access as needed. Depending on the nature of your updates and your org’s setup, these sharing calculations can take awhile to complete. If you experience sharing evaluations or timeouts, consider deferring sharing calculations before making large-scale updates, and then restart and recalculate sharing at a later time. For more information, see [Defer Sharing Calculations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_defer_sharing_calculations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Performing a large number of configuration changes can lead to very long sharing rule evaluations or timeouts. To avoid these issues, a Salesforce admin can suspend sharing calculations, specifically for sharing rules and group membership, then resume calculations during an organization's maintenance period.") in Salesforce Help.

#### See Also

- [Create Sharing Rules](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_rules_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can create sharing rules based on the record owner or other criteria, and sharing rules that grant record access to unauthenticated guest users. You can also create sharing rules based on group membership for the User object.")
- [Sharing Rules](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_about_sharing_rules.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use sharing rules to extend sharing access to users in public groups, roles, or territories. Sharing rules give particular users greater access by making automatic exceptions to your org-wide sharing settings.")