Experience Cloud Overview

Experience CloudExperience Cloud OverviewWhat Experience Cloud sites are and how they're built: the Network/Site/Domain model, Aura vs LWR templates, external user licenses, user provisioning, login and identity options, Experience Builder, and the metadata you deploy.Beginner · about 75 minutesWhat you will learn

Explain what an Experience Cloud site is and map common use cases (customer portal, PRM, help center, storefront) to templates

Describe the data model behind a site: Network, NetworkMember, Site/CustomSite, guest user and domains

Choose between Aura and LWR templates using concrete trade-offs (publishing, caching, components, theming, metadata)

Compare external user licenses and the member-based vs login-based licensing models

Provision external users with self-registration, Apex (Site.createExternalUser), and just-in-time SSO handlers

Retrieve, deploy and publish sites with the correct metadata types (Network, CustomSite, ExperienceBundle, DigitalExperienceBundle)

Contents

What an Experience Cloud site is

The building blocks: Network, Site, domains and members

Templates: Aura vs LWR

External user licenses

Provisioning external users

A tour of Experience Builder

Metadata: how sites live in source control

Multiple sites and domains

Worked example: standing up a support site from the CLI

Best practices

Common pitfalls

Hands-on exercises

Key takeaways