Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform Developer User Group : First Meetup : Technical session : Force.com Sites

1. Force.com Sites Preview
Thushara M. Samaradiwakara
tmdiwakara@gmail.com

2. Agenda
Technical Overview
Functional Overview

3. Agenda
Technical Overview
Functional Overview

4. The R eal-Time C loud
Unlim ited Real- Program m abl Program m able Real-Tim e Real-Tim e
Tim e e User Cloud Logic Workflow Web Sit es
Cust om izat ion Int erface & Approvals
Real-Tim e
Web Sit es
Real-Tim e Int egrat ed Real-Tim e Granular 750+
Mobile Cont ent Library Analyt ics Securit y & Int egrat ed
Deploym ent Sharing Applicat ions
Real-Tim e Transparent
ISO 27001 Proven Proven, Real-Tim e Query
Syst em St at us
Cert ified Securit y Reliabilit y Real-Tim e Opt im izer
Scalabilit y
Real-Tim e Proven Real-Tim e Salesforce t o 3 Global Dat a
Upgrades Real-Tim e Sandbox Salesforce Cent ers
Int egrat ion Environm ent s & Disast er Recovery
Mult it enant Kernel

5. “ ”
Salesforce.com will change forever t he way t hat businesses
build websit es.

6. What K ind of Sites did they build?
E-com m erce Public Knowledge Base Public Web Apps
Marketing Sites Case Subm ission Com m unity Sites
Sales Sites Custom er Portals Custom Sites

7. How It Works
WWW
B uild D es ig n Name Us e
Your Data In Force.com The Perfect UI With With a CNAME
Any URL Alias
You r Site In Ou r Clou d

9. Agenda
Technical Overview
Functional Overview

10. Site Templates & Components
Using Components Using Templates
Page 1 Page 2
Component A Component A
 Assign a default template at the site level
 Reference that default template with expression:
{!$Site.Template}

11. Site Template Structure
<apex:page showHeader="false" id="SiteTemplate">
<apex:insert name="header”>
<c:SiteHeader />
</apex:insert>
<apex:page …>
<apex:insert name=””mainContent"/> ….
</apex:page>
<apex:insert name=”footer”>
<c:SiteFooter />
</apex:insert>
</apex:page>

12. Template Based Page
<apex:page title="Big Cloud Realty" showHeader="false” controller="NewsController">
<apex:composition template="{!$Site.template}">
<apex:define name="mainContent">
<apex:outputPanel layout=“block” styleclass="block”>
<apex:outputPanel layout=“block” styleclass="blockTitle">
<apex:outputPanel class="blue">Latest</apex:outputPanel> News
</apex:outputPanel >
<apex:outputPanel layout=“block” styleclass="blockBody" >
The following are our most recent news stories.<p/>
<apex:repeat value="{!newsItems}" var="newsItem">
<b>{!newsItem.Name}</b> - {!newsItem.DateText c}<br/>
{!newsItem.Body c}
</apex:repeat>
</apex:outputPanel >
</apex:outputPanel >
</apex:define>
</apex:composition>
</apex:page>

13. Security Model
 Each site has it’s own special security
profile Within this profile you can enable:
IP address filters to restrict access to site
Access to specific Visualforce pages and Apex classes
Read, Create, Edit, Delete permissions for each object
Visibility and read/write permissions for each field
 A boilerplate “unauthorized” error page is provided -
you can modify or override this

14. Customer Portal Support
Name:
Pass::
 A Site can be mapped to a Customer
Portal Self-registration is available
 Site visitors can login and execute Visualforce
pages under their individual user’s context
 Example registration/login pages are provided

15. Demo

16. Caching
 To increase end user performance, Sites uses a
content delivery network of 40,000 servers
distributed across the globe
 Content is served from servers closest to the
origin of the request
 What’s cached:
– Static resources with cache control set to public
– Visualforce pages with pages attribute:

17. Robots.txt and Favicon Support
 Robots.txt is used to control how robots crawl
your site
 Favicon is a website icon that most modern
browsers support
 Sites supports these types of files:
– Create Robots.txt as a Visualforce page
– Create Favicon.ico as a Static Resource

18. URL Mapping
 Sites fully supports custom domain names, eg:
http://www.mycompany.com *
 Steps to set this up:
Register your domain name with any registrar Enter a CNAME record into
the DNS that aliases www.mycompany.com to mycompany.force.com Tell
Sites what your custom domain name is
 SSL is supported via secure.force.com only
 Tip: Don’t use fully-qualified domain names in your
pages
* Supported in production only, not developer edition or sandbox

19. Live Examples of Sites
http://developer.force.com/sitesgallery

20. Get Started Today
 Sign up for a developer edition organization at
http://developer.force.com
 Start Building
 Leverage the community at developerforce

21. Reference
 http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Tech_Talk
:_Force.com_Sites

22. Thank You
Thushara M. Samaradiwakara
tmdiwakara@gmail.com