Share Contacts

Share contacts with other users to make it easier to collaborate within your sales team.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

To share contact records with other users, those users must have Read permission for Contacts. When you share a contact record that has an associated account, the account is also shared only if you have permission to share account records.

  1. On a contact’s detail page, click Sharing. The sharing detail page lists the users, groups, roles, and territories that have sharing access to the contact.
  2. On the sharing detail page, do any of the following.
    • To show a filtered list of items, select a predefined list from the View dropdown list, or click Create New View to define your own custom views.
    • To edit or delete any view you created, select it from the View dropdown list and click Edit.
    • To edit or delete any view you created, select it from the View dropdown list and click Edit.Click Expand List to view all users that have access to the record.
    • To grant access to the record to other users, groups, roles, or territories, click Add.
    • For manual sharing rules that you created, click Edit or Del next to an item in the list to edit or delete the access level.
  3. Save your changes.