On March 1, 2020, the official start of Spring ’20 in our world, comes needed security improvements regarding sharing data with external users. However, you can uncheck the Secure guest user record access checkbox and test out these changes until Summer ’20. Phew. If you’re using any Site Guest Users, and are ready to try out the new settings you’ll need to create new sharing rules. Hint: Salesforce sites are used in Volunteers for Salesforce and frequently in Communities.
What’s a Salesforce Site? “Salesforce sites enables you to create public websites and applications that are directly integrated with your Salesforce.com organization—without requiring users to log in with a username and password. You can publicly expose any information stored in your organization through pages that match the look and feel of your company’s brand. Use sites to create public community sites to gather customer feedback, branded login and registration pages for your portals, Web forms for capturing leads, and so on.” — the Site setup page in Salesforce. Continue reading Secure guest user record access in Spring ’20