Administration, Setup, and Configuration25% of the exam
Enabling Digital Experiences and site statuses
Turning on Digital Experiences (one way, with a My Domain-based site domain), creating a site, the Preview, Active, Inactive and Archived statuses, why activating is not the same as publishing, and the basics of site URLs, custom domains and SEO.
Describe how to enable and activate an Experience.
~8 min read · 8 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Enable Digital Experiences as the first step, knowing it can't be disabled and which access settings to review afterwards.
- Create a site from a template and know what the wizard sets up: the URL path, Preview status, default login pages and your own profile as a member.
- Move a site between Preview, Active, Inactive and Archived, and say what each status allows for members, admins, welcome emails and the 100-site limit.
- Share a Preview site with testers without sending welcome emails.
- Tell activation from publishing for Aura and LWR sites versus Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce sites, and plan a site URL change.
- Describe what enhanced domains and custom domains can and can't do for site URLs, and the basic steps that make public pages indexable.
Key terms: Digital Experiences, the org setting that enables sites; Preview, never yet activated; Inactive, deactivated but open to admins; Archived, offline and outside the limit; custom URL, a custom domain plus path that serves a site.
Key facts
Enable Digital Experiences
- Detail
- First step for any site; needs Customize Application; can't be disabled
Creating a site
- Detail
- Create and Set Up Experiences and View Setup and Configuration; starts in Preview
Site limit
- Detail
- 100 per org; Preview, Active and Inactive count; Archived don't
Archiving
- Detail
- Inactive sites only; Preview sites must be activated then deactivated first
Preview welcome emails
- Detail
- None, even if Send welcome email is selected
URL change
- Detail
- Allowed after activation; users aren't redirected
Aura/LWR activation
- Detail
- Sends welcome emails; required for SEO; publishing makes the URL live
Custom domain
- Detail
- Salesforce CDN recommended; it can't serve a registrable domain
SEO orgs
- Detail
- Production only; not sandbox, Developer Edition or trial
Sources for this section (6)
- Enable Digital Experienceshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Create a Sitehelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Site Statuseshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Activate Your Sitehelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Custom Domain Prerequisiteshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- SEO for Experience Builder Siteshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why should a team explore Experience Cloud templates in a sandbox before enabling Digital Experiences in production?
- When does an admin choose Inactive rather than Archived for a temporary outage?
- Which statuses count against the 100-site limit?
- Why must members be told before a site URL change?
The questions are free to read. Answers with their sources and self-grading are included with the pack.
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