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Create a Site.com Community
Each community has one associated Site.com site that lets you add custom, branded pages to your community. By default, Site.com pages are publicly available and don’t require login, but you can also create private pages that only community members can access.
Note As of Spring ’15, the Community Template is no longer available for creating communities.
If you already have a Site.com community that’s based on the Community Template, it will
continue to work. For information on creating a community with a new Lightning Community
template, see Create an Experience Cloud Site.
Before You Begin
Communities users with the Create and Set Up Communities permission automatically have full site administrator access to a community’s Site.com site. To let users who don’t have the permission edit the site, you must purchase and assign a Site.com Publisher or a Site.com Contributor feature license. And then you must assign a user role at the site level.
Tips and Considerations
- Users with the Create and Set Up Experiences permission are assigned the role of site administrator in a community’s Site.com site. However, they don’t appear in the User Roles section on the Overview tab of Site.com Studio.
- You can’t create, delete, or duplicate community sites in Site.com.
- When working with data-bound components, such as data repeaters and forms, keep in mind that the objects listed may not be available to site visitors. For authenticated visitors, their user profiles control object access on public and private pages. For unauthenticated visitors, the site’s guest user profile controls object access on public pages.
- When adding forms to authenticated community pages in Site.com, set the current user for Salesforce objects that require the Owner ID field. Setting the current user (as opposed to the default guest user) lets you identify the authenticated user when the form is submitted. To set the current user for the Owner ID field, select the field in the form, and click Configure. Under Field Properties in the Properties pane, select Global Property as the source, and select Current userID as the value.
- The home page, 404 page, login page, and self-registration page that you specify for Site.com Community sites in Site Configuration set the default pages for the Site.com Community site. These default URLs are used unless you specify different URLs in Community Management under and . Community error pages are specified in Lightning Platform Setup, under Error Pages.
- When your Site.com Community site is inactive, users are redirected to the Service Not Available page defined in Community Management under Pages.
- The contributor’s view is not available by default for Site.com Community sites.
However, you can use a Site.com Contributor license to grant contributor access to a
specific user. See About Feature Licenses in the Site.com help for details.
Alternatively, a user can preview the Site.com Community site as a contributor by
appending
?iscontribto the site’s URL. For example:MyDomainName.builder.salesforce-experience.com/?iscontrib
- Use Site.com to Customize Your Community
Communities users can use Site.com to build custom, branded pages for a community. There are many approaches to building custom pages for your community, but these actions are some of the typical stages involved. - Create Branded Pages Overview
When you create a Community site, Salesforce automatically creates a Site.com site and associates it with your community. - Site.com Authorization Overview
As part of your site design, you might want to control what content is public and private to your site visitors. New sites are initially set so that all site resources, such as folders and pages, are public. You can change the default setting from the Authorization view found under Site Configuration. - Display Current Community User Information
Site.com designers creating authenticated pages for a community site can display the current user's information by accessingCurrentUsernamespace expressions. - Expressions Available for Displaying Current User Information
Use theseCurrentUsernamespace expressions to display authenticated user information on a Site.com community page. - Determine the URL of a Site.com Page
Determine a Site.com page’s URL to let your users access it directly, make it the home page for your community, and more. - Add Authenticated Site.com Pages to Community Tabs
After you create a private Site.com page, you can add the page to a tab in your community. - Add Chatter News or Group Feeds to Community Site.com Pages
Use the Chatter News Feed to display a Chatter feed on your site pages, or display the feeds of a particular group using the Chatter Group Feed. - Improve Performance with HTML Page Caching for Communities in Site.com
HTML caching lets you improve the performance and page rendering of your community’s Site.com site by controlling how often the generated markup of the page is reloaded.
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