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description: Give stakeholders access to alignments and specific areas within alignments in Territory Planning. To give access to all alignments within a dataset, add teammates to the dataset. Or limit access to specific alignments or alignment areas when you select them for each teammate along with their access level.
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# Control Access to Alignments

Give stakeholders access to alignments and specific areas within alignments in Territory Planning. To give access to all alignments within a dataset, add teammates to the dataset. Or limit access to specific alignments or alignment areas when you select them for each teammate along with their access level.

### 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 (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_api_access.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Web Services API enabled</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d10504e77">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d10504e77 ">To share alignments:</td>

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              <p>Sales Planning Ops Analyst permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p>Query for Datapipelines User for Sales Planning permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">SF Maps Territory Planning for Sales Planning permission set</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d10504e77 ">To open alignments that were shared with you:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d10504e77 ">Read on users</td>

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![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/images/icon_note.png)

Note Sharing an alignment or area also shares a snapshot of your current legend and layer configuration. Users who you shared the alignment or area with can modify their legend and layer configuration without affecting your legend and layer configuration.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/images/icon_note.png)

Note Users need read access to the User object in order to open alignments that were shared with them.

1. Navigate to the alignment that you want to grant access to. Then select **Share**. Or, find your area in the map legend or the territory model editor and click **Share**.
    
    ![Share an alignment](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_territory_planning_sharing_alignments_1.png)
2. To share an alignment or its areas, add a user, select the areas that you want them to have access to, and then click **Apply**.
    
    ![Share areas and access levels](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_territory_planning_sharing_3.png)
    
    ![Select areas that users can access](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_territory_planning_sharing_5.png)
3. Select the level of access that you want the user to have, and then save your changes.
    
    ![Select access levels for users](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_territory_planning_sharing_4.png)
4. To turn link sharing on and share an alignment or its areas with all Territory Planning users, select **Sharing** and an access level.
    
    ![Share alignments to all users](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_territory_planning_sharing_6.png)
5. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Control Access to Datasets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_sharing_data_sets.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Give stakeholders access to datasets and all the alignments within them in Territory Planning. Add teammates to a dataset and select their level of access.")