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Difficulty: MediumOpportunity Teams and Team Selling Access

An enterprise company uses a Private Organization-Wide Default (OWD) sharing model for both Account and Opportunity objects. A sales representative adds a technical specialist to an Opportunity Team with Read/Write access to help close a complex deal. Prior to being added to the team, the technical specialist had no access to the parent Account record. Which level of access to the parent Account record is automatically granted to the technical specialist upon joining the Opportunity Team?

  1. Implicit Read-Only access to the parent Account record.Answer
  2. B
    Read/Write access to the parent Account record matching their Opportunity access level.
  3. C
    No access to the parent Account record unless a Permission Set granting Account access is assigned.
  4. D
    Full access to the parent Account record via Role Hierarchy propagation.

Answer

The technical specialist is automatically granted implicit Read-Only access to the parent Account record.
In Salesforce built-in sharing architecture, adding a user to an Opportunity Team automatically grants that user implicit Read-Only access to the associated parent Account record. This ensures team members can view the account details necessary to collaborate on the deal without gaining unauthorized edit permissions on the account.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the Organization-Wide Default (OWD) settings and initial sharing state.
Accounts and Opportunities are set to Private, meaning users only see records they own or records explicitly shared with them.
Establishing baseline visibility rules is necessary to determine what implicit access kicks in.
2
Evaluate the behavior of Opportunity Team sharing on related parent objects.
Adding a user to an Opportunity Team grants access to the Opportunity (Read-Only or Read/Write) and automatically grants implicit Read-Only access to the parent Account record if the user lacks access.
Salesforce architecture mandates implicit parent sharing so team members can view essential contextual account information.

Key Concept

Opportunity Team Implicit Sharing Behavior
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Opportunity Teams and Team Selling Access

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