Hello,
I've completed almost the entire Admin Certification prep trailmix, but have been thrown off by something. I've been reading the official help documentation for Organization Wide Defaults and for Sharing Rules, but I still am still confused by one of the questions I encountered.
I was asked what OWD permissions must be set on the Opportunity object for the owner of an Opportunity to be able to create a sharing rule on it. I don't understand why the answer was "Public Read/Write".
I know that sharing rules are used to expand the visibility of objects to particular people that may not be able to see them. For example, you'd make a sharing rule dependent on a field, so if an Opportunity is in a particular stage, someone specific can see it.
So, I told myself that maybe "Public Read/Write" would make sense if someone was somehow unable to see Opportunity objects. But if the OWD for Opportunities is "Public R/W", then shouldn't everyone already have the ability to read and write all opportunities? Even if I put a permission set on someone to try to restrict their visibility of opportunities, I know that permission sets can only add visibility, not remove it. So if the OWD is already publicly visible, a permission set wouldn't be able to revoke that visibility from anyone, right??
Can anyone please help shine light on this for me? Is this a particular Opportunity-based quirk (maybe because having access to an Opportunity grants access to it's Account)?
Lastly I'd just like to post what is written as the explanation for "Public Read/Write" on the help page:
For example, if Tom is the owner of Trident Inc., all other users can view, edit, and report on the Trident account. However, only Tom can alter the sharing settings or delete the Trident account.
So if everyone can already read/write to the record, what good does having the ability to change the Sharing Settings do? Does that simply mean Tom is the only person that can change ownership of the record?
Thank you so much in advance!!
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Hi @Michael Brown, thank you for responding!!
The question was actually in the final "Admin Super Set" superbadge quiz. It's one of the quizes you can't retake, so I can't go back to show you, but it was one of the final questions in the whole trailmix which made it even more confusing. I may have slightly butchered the exact wording of the question, but I'm honestly confident that that is what it said.
I appreciate your answer, I am still a little lost though and really wish I could just go back and see the question :( Everything you said makes perfect sense to me, but it still doesn't feel like it exactly matches what the question was asking me. I was/am still really confused by this question because it just seems backwards!
