Question

A company tracks 'Warranty Claim' records as a custom object. Each Warranty Claim is a child in a master-detail relationship with the standard Account object. An administrator notices that Warranty Claim records do not have their own Owner field, and users complain they cannot create sharing rules directly on the Warranty Claim object. What is the correct explanation for this behavior?

Accepted Answer

The detail (child) record in a master-detail relationship inherits its owner and sharing settings from the master record and therefore has no separate Owner field or sharing rules.

Answer

Sharing rules were disabled on the object; the administrator should enable 'Allow Sharing' in the object's settings to restore the Owner field.

Answer

The Owner field is hidden by field-level security and can be exposed to users by editing the profile field permissions.

Answer

Master-detail child objects require a lookup relationship to be added before an Owner field is generated automatically.