In how many ways we can share a record in Salesforce? Explain briefly.

Hello Shradha,

Following are the ways we can share a record:

Role Hierarchy:
If we add a user to a role, the user is above in the role hierarchy will have read access.
Setup -> manage users -> roles -> setup roles -> click on ‘add role’ -> provide name and save.

OWD:
Defines the base line setting for the organization.
Defines the level of access to the user can see the other user’s record
OWD can be Private, Public Read Only, Public Read and Write.
Setup -> Security Controls -> sharing settings -> Click on ‘Edit’

Manual Sharing:
Manual Sharing is sharing a single record to single user or group of users.
We can see this button detail page of the record and this is visible only when OWD setting is private.

Criteria Based Sharing rules:
If we want to share records based on condition like share records to group of users
Whose criteria are country is India.
Setup -> security controls -> sharing settings -> select the object and provide name and
Conditions and save

Apex sharing:
Share object is available for every object (For Account object share object is AccountShare). If we want to share the records using apex we have to create a record to the share object.

Thanks.