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Multiple Users/Owners on Accounts

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hello,

I'm looking for recommendations on the best way to handle the following...

In our case we have Accounts that have two overlapping but competing Business units that can work with them. They often have the same contacts (not necessarily all of them) and may provide competing quotes to the same firm.

I'm wondering how to handle the ownership of the Accounts and Contacts while reducing duplicates and maintaining security on notes and phone calls etc. 

A few options I've considered are:

1. Creating a separate Account and Contacts per person, allowing them to keep their own records separate.

Linking these together through a Parent Account. 

2. Creating Teams and assigning the owner as the team.

My concern with this approach is that the security will be more difficult to restrict between members on the same team.

There would also be many teams as the combinations of Users working together on an Account isn't consistent. 

3. Sharing the Accounts with each other.

I have the same concerns as with Teams in terms of security. 

Any other recommendations? 

Thank you,

Brianna

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  • Tim Dutcher Profile Picture
    Tim Dutcher 2,100 on at
    RE: Multiple Users/Owners on Accounts

    I was just on a project where the requirement was to provide complex record access like you've described. We ended up needing to build plug-ins (workflow activity plug-ins) to handle sharing and revoking team access to the records. I'm not saying that your scenario requires plug-ins, but in our case the out of box security mechanisms didn't quite meet the needs.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Multiple Users/Owners on Accounts

    Hi Mark and Neil,

    I'm still not quite convinced that teams would work.

    We have about 30-50 users in 3 different business units that could overlap on records. There would usually be anywhere from 1-3 or 4 users assigned to an Account at a time and this would differ for each Account. The users also shouldn't be able to see the other users records on the Accounts.

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    Neil Parkhurst Profile Picture
    Neil Parkhurst 10,725 User Group Leader on at
    RE: Multiple Users/Owners on Accounts

    Have you considered access teams? They are useful when ownership is fluid as you assign team members based on specific records.

    That would avoid having to create loads of teams. Although someone does need to add users into the access teams on the account!

    neilparkhurst.com/.../mb2-712-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2016-customization-and-configuration-teams

    With (or without teams), you should still be able to control access on related entities such as notes / activities. As in your security roles you can ensure that users can only amend or delete their own notes. (etc.)

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    TheMarkChristie Profile Picture
    TheMarkChristie 10,328 on at
    RE: Multiple Users/Owners on Accounts

    Hi Brianna.

    I would usually in this instance say Teams would be the best way forward. But sharing account could work if it is only on a user by user basis.

    Is there a requirement to not have people in a team see the record

    So if

    Company A is owned by Person 1 Who is in Team Red

    Should anyone in Team Red be able to See Company A? If this is ok then Teams would work.

    If it should be locked down and they shouldnt see it then you would need to share it on a user by user basis

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