Error encountered while deploying Community

Question

While deploying community I am getting an error

Network community_name- unknown exception has occurred

I have verified that name of the community is same in both the environments. Any solution?

Answer 1

This is a known issue in Salesforce Community Deployment, by default, the Network API name of the community is set to the Community API name followed by 1. So if your community API name is My_Community then the network name for the same community will be My_Community1.

But when you rename any community, that Network name format changes and _C is appended to the community name instead of 1.

For eg., if you rename My_Community to New_Community, the network name will be changed to New_Community_C. That is why you can't find it while deploying.

The solution is to Rename your community in destination org to something else. Then rename it back to your desired name. Now you will be able to deploy it.

Refer this.