It’s not common that you head to Google for a little Salesforce help and can’t find a shred of support. I mean Google not turning up something? It’s unheard of! What is this a 1994 version of AltaVista doing the crawling today? Jokes aside, that’s exactly what happened to me on a rather, it turned out, rudimentary problem. Seeing as altering the search didn’t help me I figured I’d best contribute to the world’s knowledge of Salesforce so to ensure that should this error come up again there’s an actual page to be discovered.
That’s probably exactly how you got here, isn’t it?
The task at hand was simple, look into designing a custom Communities page to alter the generic login procedure. The client had no intention of making some fancy splash page or complicated login process. It simply wanted some additional control beyond the basic and easy-to-do branding that’s enable on default Community pages. Off went the resident Salesforce newbie following this guide to create new a new controller class and visualforce page. Everything went smashingly until the custom controller – named CustomInternalLogin – was to be enabled.
*WHAM* You can only select pages that are accessible by the Community Guest User
My first thought was “Oh, simple permission error the likes which pervade salesforce deployments high and low.” And it was, only it required quite a bit of ferreting out due to the implementation and naming schemes. You see, there wasn’t an actual user named Community Guest User as reported in the error. Correct profile determined it was a simple task to enabled access to the new Visualforce page created for the Community.
So, future Google searcher, I hoped that helped you out a bit.
Thanks your article, but I still don’t understand where to enable it. May you point me to the correct profile/setting page?
So how do you fix it ? not sure what is meant by “Correct profile determined it was a simple task to enabled access to the new Visualforce page created for the Community” ? How do you enable a new visual force page ?
That’s the rub. You need to determine which of your community groups can’t access the given VF page. It could be referencing any group you have as they are (likely) all considered to be a Community Guest User.
This implementation had only a handful of profiles that come into the portal so it wasn’t a huge hunt.
Hi Josh,
1. From Setup, click Customize > Communities > All Communities, then click the Manage button next to the community name.
2. Under Advanced Customizations, click the Go to Force.com link.
3. In the Site Visualforce Pages, click Edit.
4. Select your custom Visualforce page from the Available Visualforce Pages and Add it to Enabled Visualforce Pages.
5. Click Save
This worked out for me!
Else follow the PDF file salesforce_communities_implementation.pdf
https://help.salesforce.com/help/pdfs/en/salesforce_communities_implementation.pdf
Go to Page 19(printed on the pdf), you can find additional details!
Thanks.