Communities: Lightning Upgrade, Extensible Templates, Insights, Moderation Rules, and Much More

Winter ’16 is packed with changes that make templates more customizable. You can show more Salesforce data, create and use custom Lightning components, and support multiple languages. Plus, you can now create moderation criteria and act on community reports directly from Community Management. These features are available in Salesforce Classic only. Communities is not supported in Lightning Experience.

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Why You Must Get the Winter ’16 Templates with Lightning Components
Update your Koa, Kokua, and Napili templates to make them compatible with the Lightning platform and Lightning components. Lightning technology is more performant and delivers a richer visual experience on both desktop and mobile devices. The Winter ’16 version of community templates is a prerequisite for many powerful Community Builder and template features in Winter ’16 and later releases.
Check Your Community’s Template Version
The Community Builder General settings now includes information about your current template version for Koa, Kokua, and Napili templates. Previously, you could only see the template name. The template version determines which components are available in your template.
Extensible Community Templates—Yes, for Real
Extend your community beyond the preconfigured template functionality to expose more Salesforce object data, provide navigation, create custom components, and create pages to customize the display of object data. What’s more, you no longer need to switch to Site.com Studio to edit your page and template configuration—you can do all of this in Community Builder. You must update your community’s template to the Winter ’16 version to use this functionality.
Other Template Improvements
Aside from extensibility, templates now support multiple languages, voting on knowledge articles, and more case detail page options.
Community Management
We’re making it easier to monitor and protect your community with moderation rules, Insights, and the ability to report spam messages. We’ve also enhanced topics in your community and provided a new menu in the global header to access customization tools.
Search Improvements for Communities
Users performing a search in communities now see similar questions and articles as they type. We’ve also changed a few properties in the search publisher.
Work Better with Files in Communities
Access external files, manage file visibility by community, and get notified when someone shares a file.
Other Changes in Communities
Other important changes to Communities include a new login look and feel, more detailed password reset emails, and updates for partner users who work with accounts, contacts, and leads.

Communities: Lightning Upgrade, Extensible Templates, Insights, Moderation Rules, and Much More

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