Allow Users to Search Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce Sites

Sites using Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce have much of the same functionality as Experience Cloud sites using Aura templates.

Required Editions

Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

There are a few additional things to consider if you’re using a Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce site:

  • If Chatter is enabled, global search and contextual feed search are enabled by default in all sites.
  • With global search, members can search for records, files, people, groups, topics, feed posts, and comments.
  • Feed search () is helpful when members want to look for information in a specific feed context. Groups, user profiles, records, and the site feed support feed search.
  • If Chatter isn’t enabled, sidebar search is enabled in all Salesforce Tabs + Visualforce sites.
  • Sidebar search doesn’t support searches for items specific to Chatter, such as feeds, groups, files, topics, and user profiles.