Lightning Communities Developer Guide

Get Up to Speed with Lightning Communities
Develop Lightning Communities: The Basics
Customize the Look and Feel of a Lightning Template
Example: Build a Condensed Theme Layout Component
Develop Secure Code: Lightning Locker and Stricter CSP
Analyze and Improve Community Performance
Connect Your Community to Your Content Management System
Before Using CMS Connect
Create a CMS Connection
Build a CMS Connect Root Path and Component Paths
Set Up Language Mapping in Your CMS Connection
Reuse Content with CMS Connect JSON
Set Up a Connection for Your JSON CMS
Edit a CMS Connection
Manage CMS Connections
Add CMS Content to Your Community Pages
Personalize Your CMS Content
CMS Connect Recommendations for Optimal Usage
CMS Connect Examples
Report on Deflections: The Deflection Signals Framework
Deploy a Community from Sandbox to Production
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Build a CMS Connect Root Path and Component Paths

Entering a root path when configuring a CMS connection saves time when adding CMS Connect components to your pages in Community Builder. A root path uses placeholders for the common parts of content URLs. Root paths from Adobe Experience Manager, for example, start with /content. Instead of entering the full path for each component, you only need to enter the component-specific part of the path.

Example

The full path to a banner component is:
Enter content/capricorn/{language} for the root path, and /banner.html for the component path in the Builder.

You don’t have to enter a root path when setting up a connection. If you leave it blank, you’ll just need to enter full paths for your header, footer, and components (content fragments).

You can include placeholders for language and component in your root path. If you don’t include them, we add them in invisibly.

Example

This root path:
is read as
If you include the {language} placeholder explicitly, you’ll be required to enable language mapping and enter at least one language in order to save your connection. If you don’t include the placeholder, you can still enable language mapping and add languages.

Root paths can point only to HTML. They can’t point to JPG files.