True or False: An application owns its tables and determines whether other applications can access resources from them.

True or False: An application owns its tables and determines whether other applications can access resources from them.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Depends on configuration
• D. Not applicable

Answer: (A)

Ownership and access boundaries in the Now Platform are defined by application scope. Each app has its own set of tables inside its scope, and the app controls who can access those tables by configuring access controls. Other applications don’t automatically get to read or modify data from a different app’s tables; access across apps is determined by the owning app’s ACLs and any cross-scope access rules that have been enabled. If the ACLs grant read (or write) access to a user or to another app’s role, that access is allowed; if not, it’s denied. So the statement is true because the application can enforce and determine access to its resources through ACLs and cross-scope settings, subject to the platform’s security model. For example, you can expose a table to another app by adding appropriate ACLs or enabling cross-scope access, otherwise the data remains inaccessible to other apps.

Ownership and access boundaries in the Now Platform are defined by application scope. Each app has its own set of tables inside its scope, and the app controls who can access those tables by configuring access controls. Other applications don’t automatically get to read or modify data from a different app’s tables; access across apps is determined by the owning app’s ACLs and any cross-scope access rules that have been enabled. If the ACLs grant read (or write) access to a user or to another app’s role, that access is allowed; if not, it’s denied. So the statement is true because the application can enforce and determine access to its resources through ACLs and cross-scope settings, subject to the platform’s security model. For example, you can expose a table to another app by adding appropriate ACLs or enabling cross-scope access, otherwise the data remains inaccessible to other apps.