A
group consists of a set of
users and can contain
individual users,
other groups, or the users in a
particular role or territory. Groups can also contain the
users in a
particular role or territory plus all the users below that role or territory in the hierarchy.
NOTE:
- Groups are available in both the Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience.
- Groups are available in Professional, Performance, Enterprise, Developer, Unlimited, and Database.com Editions
Two types of Groups available in Salesforce:
Only Delegated Administrators and Administrators can create public groups. And everyone in the organization can use public groups like an Administrator created a group for an employee for carpool program and all employees are using this group to share records about the program.
For Personal use, each and every user can create groups, like users had to ensure that certain records are always shared within a specified workgroup.
Groups can be used using the following ways:
- By setting up the default sharing access via a sharing rule.
- By sharing the records with other users.
- By specifying to synchronize contact owned by other users.
- By adding multiple users into a Salesforce CRM Content library
.
- By assigning a user to specific actions in the Salesforce knowledge.