[SalesForce] Lightning Community – Landing Page/Home Page

Requirement We have created a Lightning Community with a Lightning Template Napili. However, we would like to setup a landing page once you open up the community. The landing page is different from the Home page as it's a page showing a disclaimer. After which the user can login as a guest or login as a community member. After logging in as guest or logging in as community user, you should be redirected towards the actual community Home Page.

Configuration
Thus looking at the Site from the Lightning Community, you can setup an 'Active Site Home Page'. For which we have created a custom page which basically should redirect you towards the VF containing the disclaimer.

Issue
However, this is not working. When entering the URL of community, you are always redirected towards the Lightning Home Page. It seems like the site option 'Active Site Home Page' is being skipped. Is that true? Is there any other way to achieve the above?

Best Answer

Here is what I did in my developer edition sandbox based on what you provided in the comments and question:

Created a community and selected template as Napili.
When you create community, It creates a site also go to site(Settings->Develop->Sites)
Here add the custom VF page you built(Site Visualforce Pages section).
Active Site Homepage should be "CommunitiesLanding"
Add a URL redirect for the site as something like below(replace 'SimplePage' with your Disclaimer page):
On your disclaimer page, wherever you want to display community login url, use something like this:
```
<apex:outputLink value="/CommunitiesLogin"> Community Login</apex:outputLink>
```

so with all this what will happen is :

User enters url for the site in the browser.
User is shown the SimplePage because we set the URL redirect for the site to this page in the above screenshot.
This page shows a hyperlink and clicking on it will take user to community login page.
Entering credentials will take user to Community home page(Because Active Site Home page is set to "CommunitiesLanding").

Here on step 2, looks like you want to show disclaimer info and other stuff.

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[SalesForce] Lightning component for Community & Navigate to Record Detail page

The beauty of component framework is events .You can make two components talk to each other via events .All you need to do is handle the event when the case record is created in another component and use Navigation to redirect to needed page

Here is sample component you need to create for that

Create a component like below

<aura:component implements="forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes">
  <aura:handler event="force:navigateToSObject" action="{!c.navigate}"/>
</aura:component>

The handler controller logic for same is as below

({
 navigate: function(component, event, helper) {
  var sobjectId = event.getParam("recordId");
    console.log(sobjectId);
    if (sobjectId.indexOf("500") >-1) { //Note 500 is prefix for Case Record
        var urlEvent = $A.get("e.force:navigateToURL");
        urlEvent.setParams({
            "url": '/case/'+sobjectId,
            "isredirect" :false
        });
        urlEvent.fire();
    }
  }
})

Drag this component on the case creation screen using community builder .

[SalesForce] Without Login page, home page is coming up

Could you check your visibility options in the "Community Builder" to make sure that your community isn't exposed to the public?

1) Login to the Community Builder 2) Click on Settings > General 3) Make sure that "Public Access" is unchecked

Next, check the visibility settings on your page variations

4) Click on "Page Manager" 5) Click on Home 6) Select "Page Variations" and check what the visibility is set to - you can modify the visibility options from the checkbox on the far right-hand side.

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[SalesForce] Lightning component for Community & Navigate to Record Detail page

[SalesForce] Without Login page, home page is coming up

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