Data Access Concepts

Before we get started implementing our security and sharing rules, let’s quickly take a look at all the ways that we can control data on the platform:

Object-Level Security
 The bluntest way that we can control data is by preventing a user from seeing, creating, editing, and/or deleting any instance of a particular type of object, like a position or review. Object-level access allows us to hide whole tabs and objects from particular users, so that they don’t even know that type of data exists. On the platform, we set object-level access rules with object permissions on user profiles. We’ll learn more about profiles in a little bit.
Field-Level Security
 A variation on object-level access is field-level access, in which a user ...

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