Question

Difficulty: MediumSelf-Service Portals and Experience Cloud for Support

An automotive fleet management company uses an Experience Cloud site with Customer Community licenses to allow client fleet managers to log and view support requests. The external Organization-Wide Default (OWD) for Cases is set to Private. The administrator must ensure that external community users can view and edit all Cases associated with their specific Account record, while preventing visibility into Cases belonging to other companies.

Which configuration should the administrator implement to meet this requirement?

  1. Create a Sharing Set that maps the User Contact Account to the Case Account.Answer
  2. B
    Create a custom profile for external users that grants the 'Modify All' permission on the Case object.
  3. C
    Enable 'Grant Access Using Hierarchies' on the Case object within external sharing settings.
  4. D
    Configure Knowledge Data Category visibility to automatically expose account-linked Case records.

Answer

The administrator should create a Sharing Set that maps the user's Contact Account to the Case Account.
Creating a Sharing Set is the correct method to grant record-level access to users with Customer Community licenses. Since these users do not have Salesforce roles and cannot participate in standard sharing rules, Sharing Sets allow administrators to grant access to records (like Cases) based on matching fields between the user's Contact record and the target record.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze license capabilities and sharing limitations
Customer Community licenses use high-volume portal access controls and do not support standard role-based sharing rules.
Standard sharing rules require Salesforce roles, which Customer Community users lack.
2
Evaluate record access requirements
The requirement is to grant access to Case records linked to the user's account under a Private OWD setting.
Private OWD restricts record visibility unless explicit sharing mechanism is applied.
3
Select appropriate Experience Cloud access mechanism
Configure a Sharing Set mapping User:Contact.Account = Case:Account with Read/Write permissions.
Sharing Sets are specifically designed to extend record access to high-volume community users based on account or contact relationships.

Key Concept

Experience Cloud Sharing Sets for High-Volume Portal Licenses
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