Customer Community URL stripped of Community Name

Question

In my customer community I am using a web tab to display a VisualForce page that is a custom list view. I am using a web tab instead of a VisualForce tab because I am also passing through a parameter on the URL.

I have added the Visualforce page to the Community User profile and added it to the Community. The tab functions fine within Salesforce. In the Community, though, when the tab is clicked, I receive a site under construction page and the url no longer has the community name in it. If I add back in the Community name, it displays fine.

For example, say community address is:
www.domain.force.com/communityname

the web tab url is

/apex/VisualForcePage?viewid=00BE0000004UYvl

so the url of the tab within the Community should be:

www.domain.force.com/communityname/apex/VisualForcePage?viewid=00BE0000004UYvl

But instead, when the tab is clicked, I get:

www.domain.force.com/apex/VisualForcePage?viewid=00BE0000004UYvl

Any ideas? The ultimate goal is to show a custom list view in the Community. Any other workaround suggestions are welcome!

Answer 1

You don't need /apex/ when you want to expose the page in the community.

First, make sure your page is available for the community (Setup -> Develop -> Sites -> Your Community -> Site Visualforce pages) as well as for the user profile.

Then your URL should look something like this:

`{!URLFOR($Site.BaseCustomUrl+'/'+SUBSTITUTE($Site.Prefix, '/', '')+'/VisualForcePage?viewid='+OBJECT__c.Id)}

You need to replace the first forward slash, SF is doing weird things by adding extra ones when you build relative URL paths...