Lightning Communities Developer Guide

Get Up to Speed with Lightning Communities
Before You Begin
What Is Salesforce Lightning?
Which Lightning Template Do I Use?
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 CSP
Analyze and Improve Community Performance
Use a CMS with Your Community
Report on Deflections: The Deflection Signals Framework
Deploy a Community from Sandbox to Production
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Which Lightning Template Do I Use?

All Lightning community templates support custom Lightning components.
Customer Account Portal
A private and secure place for customers to access and update their account information. Improve customer relationships and decrease service costs by letting customers work in the portal. Customers can see and pay invoices, update their account information, and search your knowledge base for answers to their most frequent questions.
Partner Central
A flexible, responsive template designed for channel sales workflows. Recruit, build, and grow your partner network to drive channel sales and marketing together in a branded online space. Easily configure lead distribution, deal registration, and marketing campaigns. Share training materials and sales collateral in a central space, and use reports to track your pipeline.
Customer Service
A powerful, responsive self-service template with multiple prebuilt theme options. The Customer Service template lets users post questions to the community, search for and view articles, collaborate, and contact support agents by creating cases. Supports Knowledge, Chatter Questions, and cases.
Help Center
A public-access, self-service community that exposes the articles that you make available from your knowledge base. You reduce the load on your customer support team, and your users get the satisfaction of finding their own solutions.
Build Your Own
Provides the basic pages every community needs: Home, Create Record, Error, Record Detail, Record List, Related Record List, Search, Check Password, Forgot Password, Login, Login Error, and Register. Add more pages and components as needed for the experience you’re building. To refine the look of your community, customize your branding and themes.