You are here:
Activate Your Site
Activate your site to make it accessible to members. The result of activation differs depending on whether you have a Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce site or a Lightning site.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| Applies to: LWR and Aura sites |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create an Experience Cloud site: | Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration |
| To customize or publish an Experience Cloud site: |
|
- Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce: Activating the site makes the site URL active and enables login access for members. If welcome emails are enabled when you activate, a welcome email is sent to all members. If any of those users are new users, their welcome email includes their username and password.
- Aura and LWR sites: Activating the site sends out a welcome email to all members. Activation is also required to successfully set up SEO for Lightning sites. To make the URL active and enable login access for members, publish the site.
Note If your organization has enabled enhanced domains, site traffic is routed through one of
Salesforce’s content delivery network (CDN) partners. Contact Salesforce Customer Support to
opt out of the Salesforce CDN.
To activate a site:
- From Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the global search box. Select Sites.
- Open Experience Workspaces.
- Select Administration | Administration.
- Select Activate.
-
Select OK.
Note To ensure your contributors can access Experience Builder and Workspaces in an inactive community, enable the “Modify All Data” permission.
Did this article solve your issue?
Let us know so we can improve!
