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Change Entity Ownership without loosing Data

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Posted on by Jigar Bhatt 535

Hello All,

Today we are at stage where we need to create 2 Business Unit in our existing System. Also we need to segregate Data like Product, Competitor, Email etc based on Business Unit. We have created 2 Business Unit in our existing System and we are able to segregate Data like Account, Quote , Order etc based on Business Unit. But we also need to segregate Product, Competitor based on Business Unit. We have tried various ways to achieve this without loosing our existing data but haven't achieve this.  

We have also identified that Ownership at Entity level is need to be set as "User or Team" to segregate data based on Business Unit. We have tried to change Ownership for Product, Competitor but it's Read-Only so we can't change from UI as well as from Back end.

Please suggest me a way to achieve this without loosing our existing Data.

Thanks & Regards,

Jigar

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    ashlega 34,475 on at
    RE: Change Entity Ownership without loosing Data

    Hi Jigar,

     adding to Guido's answer.. You can't make those two entities user-owned, but, normally, there are only two reasons to segregate data that way:

    - Security

    - Filtering

     From the security standpoint, I'm not sure if you are concerned about the visibility of that data (not sure why would those two entities be so important from that perspective), or if you are more concerned about the protection of that data (which would make sense if you did not want users in one business unit to update records in another business unit). You can still implement that kind of "protection" using a plugin, for example (deploy an "onupdate" plugin.. or a real-time workflow.. that will check if current user is allowed to update the product).

     Then, you might work on the visibility and filtering: create different views, and, if it's not enough, create a pre-RetrieveMultiple plugin to automatically add some filter condition based on the business unit of the user queries products/competitors

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    Guido Preite Profile Picture
    Guido Preite 54,081 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Change Entity Ownership without loosing Data

    Product and Competitor as system entities and they cannot be changed to be "User Owned". Your only way is to create custom entities for Product and Competitor and use them inside your processes. Keep in mind that Product is connected practically everywhere on the sales pipeline, so you need to check if you really need to have "User Owned" products or not.

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