Community Cloud Overview

Salesforce Community

At its most basic level, a community is a group of people who share a common mission or goal.

In Terms of Business a community can include Customers, Partners and Employees. To Build a platform that increases the collaberation among people Salesforce have provided Community Cloud.

Community Cloud Advantage

• Create multiple communities for specific needs.
• Extend business processes to employees, partners, and customers.
• Integrate data (such as orders or financial information) from third-party providers.

Enabling Salesforce Community

 USER to create a community must have Permission - Customize Application.

 SETUP → Community Settings :

 Select  ENABLE COMMUNITIES

 Provide a Domain Name for your community, Verify it .

 Save.

with this you are ready to create a community in your salesforce Org.

Creating New Community

GO TO → SETUP → All Communities → Click on  "New Community" Button.

Clicking  New Community Button will take you to Choose a Template Select one  as per your need. The template will be discussed in a different post.

  

Choose a Template and the screen shows a little overview of the same → 

CLICK "GET STARTED"

You will lend on this page enter you community name and a reference url for youe community, the first part or the default value in URL field is your domain name which you have configured while enabling Communities.

NOW you are ready with a community and to explore all the features around.

Hope to see you on the next posts, as you heist for Community as just begin now........