--- schema_version: "1" id: 50e4e330d8f67a6e30139e5274a32b367170914e946b30716f00809d2d986722 title: "Lightning Bolt for Salesforce: Build Once, Then Distribute and Reuse" collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/experience/264-0-0/community_builder_export_overview.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: d129885715df94670565c48078f4045cd15d6023749257441f020cba9614c46e description: Lightning Bolt for Salesforce lets you quickly build and distribute industry-specific Lightning Bolt Solutions to jump-start new org capabilities. Save time by building once and then reusing. Whether it’s for your own org or you’re a consulting partner or ISV, you can reduce the time required to implement solutions and cut development costs. products: - Experiences release: "264" --- # Lightning Bolt for Salesforce: Build Once, Then Distribute and Reuse Lightning Bolt for Salesforce lets you quickly build and distribute industry-specific Lightning Bolt Solutions to jump-start new org capabilities. Save time by building once and then reusing. Whether it’s for your own org or you’re a consulting partner or ISV, you can reduce the time required to implement solutions and cut development costs. ### Required Editions
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
![Time equals money](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_timemoney.png) A Lightning Bolt Solution is a portable package that’s packed with power. It can combine custom Lightning apps, business process flows, and Experience Builder templates and pages in an easy-to-build and distributable form. Use a Lightning Bolt Solution to share or sell a solution on AppExchange, implement an Experience Builder site with a turnkey solution or new look, or configure automation. You can publish apps or flows without an Experience Builder template or include one when you want to apply your brand. A Lightning Bolt Solution combines one or more of the following: - Customized Experience Builder templates—A template includes a theme layout and CSS, along with pages, content layouts, and Lightning components. Alternatively, instead of a full template, you can also export a single Experience Builder page with its content layout and components. - Flow categories—A flow category contains one or more flows, making it easy to group flows for related business processes. - Custom apps—Adding customized apps lets you create solutions tailored to your industry. Lightning Bolt Solutions are flexible, so you can take advantage of them in many ways. Here are just a few examples. ![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_example.png) Example You’ve customized the Partner Central template to create an Experience Builder site with features that meet your particular business needs. You want to create several similar partner sites, but you don’t want to build each one from scratch. By exporting your customized template, you can reuse it and build as many branded sites as you need. ![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_example.png) Example You’re a consulting partner who specializes in creating solutions for the real estate industry. Your solutions feature a unique look, custom apps for finding mortgages, and automation that alerts sales people of properties with active prospects. With a Lightning Bolt Solution, you can create and export your solution in a way that’s easy to use. After you install your Lightning Bolt Solution in the customer’s org, you can further customize it to suit their needs. By building the bulk of the solution in your org and then distributing it to your customers, you can rapidly launch new solutions. ![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_example.png) Example You’re an ISV who builds a custom insurance agent app. The app includes automation to create coverage estimates and automatically notify customers of the results. Using a Lightning Bolt Solution, you can easily bundle your app and business process flows into a single package. Distribute the package to your customers to install in their Salesforce orgs, or market the solution on AppExchange. ## Package and Distribute Your Solution You can package and distribute solutions to use in other orgs and sites. After you create and upload a package, share the link privately with your clients, customers, or partners. Alternatively, publish your custom Lightning Bolt Solution as a managed package in AppExchange. Market your solution with an AppExchange listing in the same way that you list any other app, component, or consulting service. Describe your solution, pricing, support, and other details so that customers can determine whether your offering is right for them. ![Add a Lightning Bolt Solution to a package](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_export2.png) ## Reuse Your Own Solution When you create a solution, it appears in the list of Lightning Bolt Solutions in your org. You can use it to build new Experience Builder sites or enhance an existing one. ![New solutions appear in the list of Lightning Bolt Solutions.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/community_builder_lex_bolt_sol_example.png) - **[Create a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Have at least one Experience Builder template, custom app, or flow category that you want to distribute? Then you’re ready to create a Lightning Bolt Solution. With Lightning Bolt Solutions, you can combine custom Lightning apps, business process flows, and Experience Builder templates and pages in easy-to-build, distributable packages. - **[Export a Customized Experience Builder Template for a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_template.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** You can customize and export an Experience Builder template to use as a base for creating Experience Builder sites. Create custom pages, layouts, and components. Export and package the template on its own or distribute it for others to use as a part of a Lightning Bolt Solution. - **[Export a Customized Experience Builder Theme for a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_theme.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Export themes that you’ve customized and use them in your own Experience Builder sites, or package and distribute them for others to use. - **[Export a Customized Experience Builder Page for a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_page.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Export pages that you’ve customized in an Experience Builder site. Use them as a base for new pages, or package and distribute them for others to use in their sites. - **[Add Flows to a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_flow_category.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** When you want to add flows to a Lightning Bolt Solution, group them into a flow category. Then add one or more flow categories to your solution. - **[Export and Packaging Considerations for Lightning Bolt Solutions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Before you export and package a Lightning Bolt Solution, keep the following considerations and limitations in mind. - **[Requirements for Distributing Lightning Bolt Solutions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_guidelines.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Before Salesforce can recognize a Lightning Bolt Solution that’s ready for distribution on AppExchange, your solution must meet certain requirements. - **[Package and Distribute a Lightning Bolt Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.community_builder_export_package.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** After you create a Lightning Bolt Solution, package the solution to distribute it to other users or orgs. You can upload the package to AppExchange to share or sell your solution. #### See Also - [_Salesforce Partner Community_: Lightning Bolt for Partners](https://partners.salesforce.com/s/education/general/Lightning_Bolt) - [Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.lightning.meta/lightning/intro_framework.htm) - [_Experience Cloud Developer Guide_](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.communities_dev.meta/communities_dev/communities_dev_intro_before.htm) - [_Security Developer Center_](https://developer.salesforce.com/devcenter/security) - [_Second-Generation Managed Packaging Developer Guide_: Second-Generation Managed Packages](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pkg2_dev.meta/pkg2_dev/sfdx_dev_dev2gp.htm)