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title: Related record access
description: Related record access enable consistent control over what records users are able to access between related tables.
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product: Access Control
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Configure an ACL, Access Control Lists \(ACLs\), Access Management]
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# Related record access

Related record access enable consistent control over what records users are able to access between related tables.

## Related record access details

Related record access enables you to configure access to related record, determining whether the related parent table's ACL should be enforced on data that is allowed access from the ACL. Consider the following use-case, a user has access to a record via ACL, then related record access enables the users' access to all other records related to it, via either reference or bidirectional relationship.