Comments on: Deploy Community Builder Templates in 3 Simple Steps!

By: Kara Allen

Kara Allen — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:57:31 +0000

In reply to Om Prakash. Since the Summer '17 release came out with the ability to deploy the Network object, I have not tried deploying a new community between orgs using ANT. After deploying it via ANT, are you going into the builder and clicking publish? Even after a sandbox refresh, you have to republish the community inside of the builder, which is counter-intuitive.

By: Om Prakash

Om Prakash — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:26:30 +0000

I have created a salesforce lightning community using ‘Partner Central’ template and some lightning components in one of my developer org and need to deploy this community and components to another org.
I used ANT migration tool to deploy the meta-data (i.e lightning components and community configuration settings) between orgs.

While deploying the data to another org I changed the domain name in networks file to new domain name of the new org. I deployed the data successfully and all my community configuration settings are visible in the new org. When accessing the community through builder in the new org it seems fine and while preview all the components work well, but when I use the public URL to visit the community it shows
“An internal server error has occurred” with some different Error Id’s each time.

I also tried the site export feature from the Site.com studio and overwriting the site file in new community, but this also leads to same error.

This works well when I configure the community manually and publish it through builder, but that is not what I wanted. I want this process to be automated as I need to deploy this community to various orgs.

Please help me out in this.

By: Kara Allen

Kara Allen — Tue, 16 May 2017 16:35:07 +0000

In reply to Estela Solano. Hi Estela, Great question! Yes, this has now been replaced with the ability to migrate in between sandboxes using change sets.

By: Estela Solano

Estela Solano — Tue, 16 May 2017 00:17:39 +0000

Hi Kara, Site Export functionality is no longer working in Summer’17. Any idea if something new was released to move site templates between sandboxes.

By: Kara Allen

Kara Allen — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:13:22 +0000

In reply to Brent B. Brent, thanks for reminding me to update this. To get to Site.com Studio from the builder, you now need to go to Settings > Languages > Go to Site.com Studio Languages.

By: Brent B

Brent B — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:10:35 +0000

It appears this no longer works for Winter ’17. Any updates for new releases? Site Export functionality does not seem to work this way any more…

By: Kara Allen

Kara Allen — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:09:53 +0000

In reply to Jai. Hi Jai, I know this is a bit late, but that sounds a bit like a bug. If you deployed the lightning components to the new org and then uploaded the .site file to bring over your customization from the previous environment, the components should show up.

By: Kara Allen

Kara Allen — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:57:12 +0000

In reply to Ravi. Thanks for the feedback, Ravi! I am glad this was useful!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:27:46 +0000

This was so simple yet this knowledge is not very common or easily available. Salesforce documentation doesn’t provide any insights into deploying community templates either. This was very helpful. Thank you!

By: Kathy Dunne

Kathy Dunne — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:48:54 +0000

Hi! So glad to have found this article as this is not documented by Salesforce that I can find.

Once I’d created my community in production, I had to go to Site.com Studio, select ‘Overwrite this Site’ from the widget icon, and select the file I’d exported from the sandbox. That seemed to be the step that brought everything over.

Thanks – this saved me quite a bit of time!

By: Jai

Jai — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:46:35 +0000

I have followed the same steps for deploying the napili template community between 2 sandboxes with same version.

1. Exported from sandbox1.

2. Created the community with same template in sandbox2 and imported/overwritten site with Exported file(.site) from previous step. I am able to see my pages after overwriting the site.

3. publish the changes done in step 2.

4. When I open community builder I an see the community pages but nothing is loading in output pane. No lightning components are visible on left hand side bar. I can see the lightning components in sandbox, developer console etc. but they are not available in community builder (they are implementing forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes).

Any idea what might be the glitch or missing part here. Also when I create another community then those components are visible there for drag and drop.

Thanks
Jai