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I'm not even sure if you need a customer portal user if you're also a partner portal user but the documentation doesn't seem to be be particularly clear about this so I guess I have two questions:

 

 

  1. Do I need to have a customer portal user if I already have a partner portal user?
  2. If you need to have both a customer and partner portal user, is there any way to associate both types of user with a single contact? 

 

Is there any way to create a customer or partner portal user without an associated contact record either through setup or via the API?

 

From what I can see the only way to do it is via the contacts record. 

Is there a way, from an API standpoint, to determine whether a user has the ability to update/edit a particular instance of an object?  As the documentation describes, you can enable security at the object level but also at the instance level using territory management and/or sharing rules.  We tried using the MayEdit field but discovered later that this is not a standard field found on all Salesforce orgs (some of our older customers do not have this field exposed at all).  I tried reverse engineering the process by querying the respective "Share" table, if it existed, and the Group, UserTerritory tables.  Unfortunately there are some pieces of information I could not retrieve that would aid in my search.  For instance, I couldn't find a way, via API, to determine what sharing model (Private, Public Read/Write, Public Read Only) a customer applied to an object.  Is this information queryable/retrievable  somewhere?  DescribeSObject only gives object level permissions.  Anyways, if anyone has some insight on this topic, I would like to hear from you.

- Ed