You'll learn how to: Limit the Contacts table to only your records, only a teammate's records, or the whole team. Works the same way on Companies and Deals.
Time: 2 seconds.
Prereqs: You're in a multi-seat workspace. Solo workspaces don't show the Owner filter because there's only one possible owner.
Steps
- Open Contacts (or Companies, or Deals).
- On the toolbar, find the Owner filter dropdown (sits on the right side, after the View Options popover).
- Pick one:
- Mine: only records owned by you.
- All members: everyone's records.
- <Specific teammate>: only that person's records.
The table refreshes instantly. The filter is independent of saved views, so you can pair "Owner: Sarah" with any saved view to see Sarah's slice of that view.
Common patterns
- Daily personal work: set to Mine by default and forget it.
- Pipeline review of a teammate: switch to their name when prepping for a 1:1 or reviewing their performance.
- Workspace-wide reporting: switch to All members for end-of-quarter / end-of-month exports.
- Comparing two teammates' approach: switch back and forth between them to see how they each filter, rhythm, and engage their networks differently.
Owner-filter is not record permission
The Owner filter changes what you see, not what you have access to. In a Team-visible sharing policy (the default), you can still SEE records owned by teammates regardless of the filter; the filter just hides them. To genuinely restrict access, change the workspace sharing policy. See Team and workspace.
If something goes wrong
- Symptom: "Owner filter is missing." → Fix: You're in a solo workspace (only one user). The filter only appears when there are multiple members.
- Symptom: "I picked Mine but I see records I don't own." → Fix: Some records may have you as a collaborator rather than an owner. Mine = owner, not collaborator. To see what you're collaborating on, filter by collaborator separately (advanced filters).
- Symptom: "I can't see a teammate in the dropdown." → Fix: They're either not part of your workspace yet or they've been deactivated. Check the team roster in Settings → Team.
- Symptom: "Filter resets every time I refresh." → Fix: Owner filter is per-tab, not persistent. Save the view with the filter applied to make it sticky.
Related: Manage your contacts and companies | Save a custom view | Team and workspace.