Winter’17 Communities Enhancements

Improved Default Group Icon
Updated default group icon helps keep even new groups looking modern. This feature is available in both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.

Link Between Visualforce Pages in Salesforce1
Easily link to Visualforce pages from other Visualforce pages in Salesforce1 by selecting the option under Salesforce1 Settings for Communities in Communities Settings. The setting keeps the Apex prefix in all your community URLs.

Only communities that use the Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce template are supported in all of the Salesforce1 apps.

Default Page Variation No Longer Required
Communities were previously required to have a default page. No more. We’ve removed that restriction, opening up the possibilities of making sure that, say, the marketing team’s landing page is visible only to those members who need access and not visible at all to the rest of the community.

Can’t Add Unpublished Pages to Navigation Menu
When editing the community navigation menu, you can only add published pages. Unpublished pages don’t appear in the page list, avoiding the issues that adding them before they were published created.

Fields Removed from Group Layout
Cleaned up the layout options for the Group Detail page. Not to fear, though: the field info still displays in the Group header and compact layout.

Removed some fields from the layout options for the Group Detail page to make the display cleaner and easier to read. This feature is available in both Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.
Removed fields:
- Name
- Allow Customers
- Broadcast Only
- Access Type
- Used as Activity Group
- Archiving

Page Visibility Setting No Longer Publishes Automatically
In days past, the page visibility setting you chose was live as you worked in your community, which led to some concern and confusion. Now, you can work away without your page visibility setting going live until you publish your community, giving you the chance to make all the changes you want and releasing them when you’re ready.
Improve Your Community’s Search Quality with Search Dashboards : Go to a customer community, look for a specific topic, can’t find it, and have to log a case with support to answer our question. So frustrating. You now have the power to make your customers bypass this exercise in frustration by improving your community’s search quality. With Search Dashboards, you can set up specific metrics based on searches done in a community. You can even filter results by the type of user: Was the person doing the search a logged-in member or a guest user just prowling the community? Or filter by how often members used autocomplete to search for terms.

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