[SalesForce] How to get the URL of a community builder page

I have created a page in community builder and configured an URL for this page. (see image)

When I use this URL to make a redirection I get a page not found error.

The Url I end up with is this: https://sandboxname-customername.cs83.force.com/communityname/choose-current-dealer

What I did now is add an "s" in the url because this seems to be there for all URLs.

The Url I end up with now is this: https://sandboxname-customername.cs83.force.com/communityname/s/choose-current-dealer

And this works.

Now the question is if it is safe to hardcode an url like this or if it is likely to change in the future?

Best Answer

URL's are subject to change in lightning communities, however, this does not happen overnight.

These update(s) usually happen with Lightning Community Template Updates:

So, as long as you don't update your template, if you hardcoded a url, it should not break.

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[SalesForce] Home page for community users

There's a special one-to-one relationship between a Community and a Force.com Site. It's actually the associated Site entry that holds the Home Page and enabled Visualforce Pages.

The public home page needs to be accessible by "[Your Community Name] Guest":

go to Setup > Develop > Sites
click "[Your Community Name] Guest"
hit the Edit button,
in 'Active Site Home Page' choose your Visualforce home page,

The logged in home page needs to be accessible by "[Your Community Name] Partner User":

create a Visualforce Page,
go to Setup > Develop > Pages and click Security next to your page
move the relevant Login User profile into the Enabled Profiles

Then when you direct visitors to your login page, you must include the ?startURL=/apex/PageName URL parameter.

[SalesForce] How to add CSS framework to template using Community Builder

You can add CSS frameworks to the template by editing the HTML Head Markup of the template in the community builder. Shown below.

Go to Community Builder -> Settings -> Advanced -> Edit Head Markup

Once You Click the Edit Head Markup Button, you will get a popup like shown in the image below where you can add CSS frameworks and other libraries just like you do in HTML.

NOTE:

Doing the above will add the CSS framework to each and every page of your community which might effect the standard CSS of the template. If you don't want that to happen, you can use lightning components with its <ltng:require> attribute. Something Like Below

<aura:component implements="forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes" access="global">

  <ltng:require
   styles="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" 
   scripts='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js,
   https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js'/>

  <button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Success</button>

</aura:component>

I hope this helps :)

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[SalesForce] Home page for community users

[SalesForce] How to add CSS framework to template using Community Builder

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