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# User Sharing and Visibility

User Sharing enables you to show or hide an internal or external user from another user in your organization.

### 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;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

Watch how you can control the visibility that users have to each other.

With User Sharing, you can:

- Assign the “View All Users” permission to users who need to see or interact with all users. This permission is automatically enabled for users who have the “Manage Users” permission.
- Set the organization-wide default for user records to Private or Public Read Only.
- Create user sharing rules based on group membership or other criteria.
- Create manual shares for user records to open up access to individual users or groups.
- Control the visibility of external users.
- Manage personal user information visibility for external users.

- **[Set the Org-Wide Sharing Defaults for User Records](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_owd_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Set the org-wide sharing defaults for the user object before opening up access.
- **[User Sharing Considerations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_users_concept.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Review these considerations before you implement user sharing.
- **[Control Which Users Experience Cloud Site Users Can See](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.networks_user_sharing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    With user sharing, you decide whether all users in an Experience Cloud site are visible to each other.
- **[Manage Personal User Information Visibility for External Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_manage_personal_info_visibility.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Protect your external users' data by concealing personal information fields from other external users. To meet your business's security needs, modify which user fields are classified as personal information and hidden from view on Experience Cloud sites.
- **[Report Types Support for User Sharing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_users_srt.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Reports based on standard report types might expose data of users to whom a user doesn’t have access.
- **[Differences Between User Sharing with Manual Sharing and Sharing Sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_sharing_users_manual_and_sets.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Manual sharing and sharing sets provide access to different groups of users.