Dynamics 365 Sales uses the Opportunity Sales Access Team template to provide access to the opportunity record to all the users connected under the Sales team connection role category. A salesperson who might not have access to a given opportunity record by their assigned security role privileges can still get access when added as a sales team member from this subgrid. This allows the sales team member users to access and work with the opportunity record in Dynamics 365 on a per-record basis. Similarly, when an existing sales team member is deleted from the subgrid, the access to the opportunity record granted via the access team template is also removed.

Note: Use access teams and owner teams to collaborate and share information

When to use access teams

The teams are dynamically formed and dissolved. This typically happens if the clear criteria for defining the teams, such as established territory, product, or volume aren’t provided.

The team members require different access rights on the records. You can share a record with several access teams, each team providing different access rights on the record. For example, one team is granted the Read access right on the account and another team, the Read, Write and Share access rights on the same account.

A unique set of users requires access to a single record without having an ownership of the record.