Administration, Setup, and Configuration25% of the exam
Public sites: guest access and record ownership
How to open an Experience Builder site or a single page to guests, harden the per-site guest user profile (Read and Create only, API, flows and self-registration pages off), share records through guest user sharing rules, and handle guest-created records with a default owner.
Determine the steps to build a public Experience.
~8 min read · 10 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Make a whole site public, or open one page while the rest stays behind login.
- Show components such as the Navigation Menu to guests.
- Harden the guest user profile: object and system permissions, API, default Visualforce pages.
- Share records through guest user sharing rules, one guest user per site.
- Plan for guest records going to a default owner: routing, and flows or pages that assumed guest ownership.
Key terms:
- Guest user: the single user record that every unauthenticated visitor to one site shares.
- Page access: the Site Default Setting, Public or Requires Login choice in a page's Page Properties.
- Guest user sharing rule: a criteria-based sharing rule type that grants guests Read Only access.
- Secure guest user record access: the always-on setting that locks guest org-wide defaults to Private.
- Guest record default owner: the active, non-guest user who owns records guests create.
Key facts
Site public access
- Detail
- Builder Settings, General: Guest users can see and interact with the site without logging in
Page access options
- Detail
- Site Default Setting, Public, Requires Login
Always public / always private
- Detail
- Login-related pages / Messages page
Guest users
- Detail
- One guest profile and guest user per site, shared by all visitors
Guest OWD
- Detail
- Private for all objects, unchangeable
Guest sharing rules
- Detail
- Read Only; count toward 50 criteria-based rules per object
Guest object permissions
- Detail
- Only Read and Create allowed; recommend no access, or maximum Read where possible; never View All or Modify All
Default owner
- Detail
- Any active non-guest user with Read; prefer queues plus routing
Automation
- Detail
- Replace OwnerId = guest user with CreatedById
- Why do pages left at Site Default Setting stay private on a login-required site?
- Which object permissions can a guest user profile have?
- When does a guest lose access to a record they created?
- Why doesn't a guest sharing rule for one site help guests on another site?
The questions are free to read. Answers with their sources and self-grading are included with the pack.
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