Force.com Sites technology is used to build public facing websites that run on the Force.com platform. The pages of a Force.com Site are built with Visualforce. Force.com Sites is one of the two Salesforce technologies, Site.com being the other, for constructing public facing websites.
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Overage Authenticated Website User Profile has no custom object permission section
I was going through the Overage Authenticated Website User Profile and found that it doesnt have any section for Custom Object Permission. So tried to clone the same but still I cant see the section ...
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Issue with Request time Limit governor exception on force.com sites
We are currently working on a UAT phase for a force.com site implementation where we have custom visual force forms running upto 70 steps. We are currently facing request time governor limit exceeded ...
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Debugging force.com site visual force pages
We have a force.com site where we have a lot of visual force pages which are under authenticated force.com site license. The issue is that we are getting errors which i assume are runtime where the ...
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Can Robots.txt settings be edited so that google can index the website which is hosted in salesforce?
Is there anyway to edit the robots.txt settings in salesforce developer edition?? I have purchased a domain through a private vendor and hosted my website through salesforce developer edition, but the ...
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Force.com Site - Custom Forgot Password page not working, throwing unauthorized page error
We have a Force.com site where we enabled login options and for the forgot Password link on the login page settings we have added a custom Forgot Password page.
When I try to navigate to this Forgot ...
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How can I develop on Salesforce quickly when using Static Resources?
Are there any good tricks for debugging/developing on Salesforce when I have multiple external Javascript files that have to be saved and uploaded as Static Resources every time I make a change? It's ...
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Site.createPersonAccountPortalUser returning null on a force.com site
We have a force.com site where we use person accounts. I am building a registration page where i create a person account on the first step and then call the site.createpersonaccountportal user to ...
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Is it possible to set a SFDC proxy for a force.com sites page?
Has anybody ever called an external server from a Force.com site using jQuery.ajax()? The following code works on a normal visualforce page (via apex pages) but not on a visualforce page running on my ...
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Filenot found error when i run with site guest user license on the debug log
We have a force.com site which we are in the build process. When i run the home page of the force.com site and click on a button to go to my visual force pages, i am getting a file not found error on ...
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VF login page to customer portal login returns to login page
I have a very similar setup to this question:
How do I use a custom URL for the Customer Portal
I first access my site through a custom url. I see the login page because that is the active page I set ...
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accessing the Streaming API from a public-facing Force.com Site
I've got a telemetry application for which the Streaming API would be extremely useful. However I want the subscriptions to be publicly accessible. (So that anyone with the client can waltz up and ...
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Lifecycle of Controllers
I am just wondering about the life cycle of page controllers? How often are than instantiated and is there any configurations which can change this?
Is there a method guaranteed to be invoked every ...
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Rebranding Customer Portal: Sites or VF Pages? [closed]
What is more preferrable? If I'm not mistaken the Sites has the advantage of allowing a branded URL - is that correct?
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How to shorten salesforce site URL? If not can i host my visualforce & apex code if i purchase a new domain?
I have created & registered a new domain through sites(by using developer edition), the URL is http://texmax-developer-edition.ap1.force.com
Is there any way to shorten the URL??
If not, can i ...
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How to customize the force.com site pages?
How can I customize my templates for the force.com site pages?
Suppose I have 2 pages in the sites.com, i need to package this and install it in various orgs(customers).
How can I customize the ...
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How many force.com sites can an organisation have?
We're working with a potential customer who is using force.com's sites feature to host public facing websites. From what I can find, there seems to be a limit of 25 sites for the Unlimited account ...
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apex method for logout from force.com site
I'm using a force.com site and it has a login method that allows you to redirect them to different landing pages from within apex via Site.login(username,password,url). However it appears there is no ...
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What counts as a login for login-limited licenses (Authenticated Sites / High Volume Customer Portal)?
We're re-building a webservice that previously had it's own authentication and security model baked in. Instead of having the webservice handle this we're looking at switching to using Authenticated ...
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How to build an authenticated webservice without requiring full licenses for each user?
I'm in the process of re-architecting an old webservice. To keep licensing costs down the webservice is exposed publicly through Sites and a custom authentication and security model was baked into ...
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How to resolve a inputfile rerender problem?
I have a VF page to create the cases and to insert the attachments to case.On Changing the picklist values i have to rerender the entire page to enter new values. But I have a inputfile tag in the VF ...
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Inserting a task from a Force.com Site
I have a Force.com Site with a controller inserting a new Task. I noticed that I receive no error on the page, but the Task is not created. When I access to the same page internally (from ...
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Loading existing users to force.com sites from External application
We are building a force.com sites with authenticated user license. We currently want to load from an existing application around 500,000 users in a csv format with username, password to force.com site ...
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Can we insert Attachments on a Case using Force.com Sites?
I have a Force.com site to create cases for partner portal users. I want to add the attachment functionality to this page. I am getting the filenotfound exception as soon as i hit this page on sites.
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How to change the Logo in Force.com sites?
I was wondering how to change the logo in a force.com site. After doing some research found that there is a visualforce component named site header that can be customized.
Here is the link : ...
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Do I always need to create a customer portal to leverage authenticated sites functionaliy?
We are planning to create a force.com site for multiple languages. We are planning to use authenticated sites user license for the users to login and do some features. In my understanding to do this, ...
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Debug ViewState Problems in Force.com Sites VF Pages
We're implementing a complex web application based on force.com Sites and ran into problems with the ViewState size of one of our pages. Now on the platform I would activate Development Mode and the ...
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Build custom authentication for site
I am scoping out a custom solution which encompasses a multi-step workflow built on Visualforce. I want to expose this solution to external customers.
The most natural way is to use customer portal, ...
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Why am I always logging in with Guest user profile on sites even though I enter partner credentials?
I have a custom page Create ticket and I want to host it on Sites. I am using partner credentials to log into sites. Once I enter partner credentials, it's always logging in with Guest User. How would ...
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How to get force.com site URL? [duplicate]
I have created one site page. I send a link to this page to some users in an email. Currently, the site page is in a sandbox and I have hard coded this link in email. This means when I move this to ...
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block ip address or domain from force.com site
How would I got about blocking users from seeing a public site (ie, the guest user profile)?
Could you allow all ranges of ip except theirs?
Is there a way to block by domain?
For ...
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How to make all contacts visible to the sites guest user?
I'm building a basic sites page that displays a bunch of widgets based on a contacts address. It references code in a managed package, so I don't have the ability to use without sharing in the ...
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Get Site URL from apex
Is there a way to get the URL of a salesforce site from apex
I need this to send the url in an email message, so the apex is run outside of the site context. I basically want to expose a link to my ...
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Enabling Single Sign-On for Sites using Salesforce as the Identity Provider
I was wondering if anyone has had success in trying to enabling single sign-on for sites using salesforce as the Identity Provider.
https://login.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/sso_sites.htm
I have used ...
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Salesforce sites license and oauth
I could answer this question by spending a day doing it, but has anyone tried using oAuth to log in a sites user?
My concern is that since usernames are not globally unique, but only unique to that ...
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VF controller system context versus Sites Guest User object permissions
I'm trying to clarify VF controller context versus Sites Guest User permissions on Contact record.
From everything I've read, a VF controller using "without sharing" operates in the system context. ...
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custom sites domain name redirecting to salesforce login screen?
I set up salesforce sites to work with our customer portal and added a custom domain name to it but for some reason in any browser that I am logged in to salesforce the domain name just redirects to ...
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Login not Allowed in Force.com Sites
I am trying to enable the Login for the site, but i can't see the option to enable it.
i am having following screen when i click on login settings button from sites detail page.
How to enable Login ...
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Permission problem in sales forece
My URL :- http://myurl.com/homepage2
This is a site URL...
I am showing a page if user will fire this URL..
While running this URL i am getting some permission problem --
What i have tried --
Try to ...
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Permission Sets for Site Guest User
Managing permissions on a force.com site is one of my least favorite things to do. If you got it right in dev, then move to QA, you have to write down all the permissions because you can't deploy ...
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Site sometimes incredibly slow - Apex code execution sleeps for several seconds - any chance to fix?
We sometimes experience a very slow response of a Sites page. Usually the page renders in less than a second but sometimes it takes 8 or more seconds.
When digging into the debug logs I recognized ...
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Custom Labels In Force.com Site
I have enabled Translations, with languages English and Russian. I have made one Custom Label and added a Russian translation. I have added that Custom Label to my Force.com Site. What do I need to ...
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Where is the Force.com Flex Zip file referred to in a link in Flex developers guide Nov 9 2012?
I have been searching the web for 2 days and I cannot find the Flex Toolkit for Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 Premium. The link referred to in the Force.com Flex Developer`s Guide dated Nov 9 2012 is non ...
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Whats's the best way to “package” a Site that comes with a managed package?
I am looking for the best way to include a Salesforce Site within a managed package, my current plan is to include the Site Active visualforce page i.e. the landing page and all of the other metadata ...
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Site.UrlRewriter Interface implementation problem with more than 2 parameters
Sites provides built-in logic that helps you display user-friendly URLs and links to site visitors. For that we need to implement Site.UrlRewriter interface and create our own class to map ...
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Is this a good mix: Authenticated Site - Customer Portal License - Opportunities
I have:
Parent__c object which parents the opportunity object.
Authenticated site for customers to login. Authentication comes via Customer Portal license.
One of the pages in the site details ...
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how to use apex:inputField (lookup type) on public site
I want to use apex:inputField on public site. I have given read/edit permission on both object but when i on lookup, it open standard page as popup but say "Authorization Required".
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Use Salesforce to store product Documentation?
I have been asked if we can store our documentation as knowledge base articles. This sounds doable if you think of every document page as an individual article.
The problem I see is that, if the ...
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Force.com Sites Page to template to component relationship
I am looking for the best way to set dynamic attributes for a component that is included on a Force.com site template page, but varies from page to page.
For example, let's say I have a Home Page, a ...
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Development with the Force platform
I have some questions with respect to getting started with developing a website for our customer's customers on the Force platform. This site will need to read/update from/into Salesforce backend as ...
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VisualForce: Conditionally render HTML elements like <li>
I have a Force.com site portal written completely with custom Visualforce, HTML and CSS.
I have a component which is used to display the navigation links at the top of the page.
This navigation is ...
