Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

Public and personal groups

Groups are sets of users and can contain users, other groups, and all the users in a given role or territory hierarchy (or even the users below that given role/territory, that is, the so-called subordinates).

Your organization supports public groups, which are created by administrators and can be used by any user, and personal groups, which are created by any user and only accessible to them.

Groups can be created for the following reasons:

• For default sharing with sharing rules (only public)
• To share a record with other users (both public and personal)
• To share a Salesforce CRM Content library (only public)
• To assign users to a selected action on Salesforce Knowledge (only public)

Since public groups are involved ...