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title: "What Is a Group in Salesforce?"  
description: "What Is a Group in Salesforce?"  
author: "Paul Wilson"  
published: 2018-02-02  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33953/what-is-a-group-in-salesforce  
category: "salesforce"  
tags: ["salesforce", "group"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What Is a Group in Salesforce?

What Is a [Group](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80883/entire-g7-group-intact-on-fighting-coronavirus) in [Salesforce](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12736/exploring-the-usage-and-benefits-of-salesforce-for-businesses)?

## Answers

### Answer by Tarun Gautam

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

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## Two types of Groups available in Salesforce:

- **Public groups**

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. \

- **Personal groups**

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.


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