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eswarsfeswarsf 

Difference between "Customer Portal" and SiteForce

Hi,

We are planning to build "Customer Portal" using VisualForce and Apex Code.Can we build the same with SiteForce?

 

Thanks,

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Ryan-GuestRyan-Guest

Siteforce currently doesn't support authentication (Customer Portal, Partner Portal). So you'd need to use Force.com Sites (VF, Apex, Customer Portal).

 

This may be supported in a future release.

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Ryan-GuestRyan-Guest

Siteforce currently doesn't support authentication (Customer Portal, Partner Portal). So you'd need to use Force.com Sites (VF, Apex, Customer Portal).

 

This may be supported in a future release.

This was selected as the best answer
eswarsfeswarsf

Thanks for the update Ryan.
Benjamin LauBenjamin Lau

Ryan,

 

   If site force do not support authenticated user directly, is it possible to use force.com site to expose a login page or a combination of jQuery Script to maintain a cookie ?

 

   Without Authentication to a High Volume Customer Portal user database is a deal breaker for what I hope to use SiteForce for.....

 

Thanks for your help !


Benjamin
Ryan-GuestRyan-Guest

Yes, we understand that authenticated sites opens up a lot of use cases for Siteforce.

 

You could juse an iframe with Force.com Sites or another technology in the meantime. You could also maintain the state yourself in a cookie, but that's not a supported practice.
QCmduffQCmduff

Is it possible to use Siteforce to customize the standard login page (maybe render the native login page within an iframe)?