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description: Manage settings that apply to all sites built on Experience Cloud.
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# Configure Digital Experiences Settings

Manage settings that apply to all sites built on Experience Cloud.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Applies to: <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_basics_glossary.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">LWR, Aura, and Visualforce sites</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d69240e82">User Permissions
              Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e82 ">To change digital experience settings:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e82 ">Customize Application</td>

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1. From Setup, enter Digital Experiences in the Quick Find box, then click **Digital Experiences** | **Settings**.
2. Make your changes and save.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d69240e140">Setting</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d69240e143">Description</th>
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              <strong>Experience Management</strong>
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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Enable Experience Workspaces</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Use Experience Workspaces to manage your sites. This setting is on by default,
              but you can disable it. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Assign new records created by guest users to the default owner</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">When enabled, all new records created by guest users are assigned to a default
              record owner. If no default record owner is chosen, the default record owner is the
              site’s owner.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Display warning for unsupported browsers</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">When enabled, users are asked to update or switch browsers when they access an
              Aura site with an unsupported browser. Display warnings are available by default in
              Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) sites.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Enable ExperienceBundle Metadata API</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Provides access to the ExperienceBundle Metadata API, which allows text-based
              programmatic migration and creation of Aura sites. LWR sites use ExperienceBundle by
              default.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Role and User Settings</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Number of customer roles</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">You can have up to three roles. If you specify one customer role and then
              decide to increase the number of roles later, the increased number of roles isn’t
              applied to existing customer accounts.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Number of partner roles</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">
              <p>When you enable the first external user on a partner account, a user role
                hierarchy is created for that account. The three roles are Partner User, Partner
                Manager, and Partner Executive. The role hierarchy rolls up to the account owner
                (typically, the channel manager). When you create contacts on the partner account
                and convert them to external users, assign one of these roles to them. </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">If you specify one partner role and then decide to increase the number of roles
                later, the increased number of roles isn’t applied to existing partner
                accounts.</p>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Allow editing of the Partner Account field on opportunities and leads</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Select to allow partner users to edit the Partner Account field.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Enable Partner Super User Access</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Granting super user access to users with Partner Community licenses lets them
              access more data and records, regardless of sharing rules and org-wide defaults.
              Super users can access data owned by other site users who have the same role or a
              role below them. Super user access applies only to cases, leads, custom objects, and
              opportunities. External users have access to these objects only if you expose them
              using profiles or sharing and add the tabs to the portal.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 "> Enable report options for external users</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Select this option to give external users with Partner Community or Customer
              Community Plus licenses and the “Run Reports” permission, access to report options
              on the run report page. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Let customer users access notes and attachments</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Select to let customer users access notes and attachments on accounts and
              contacts. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Allow customer users to change case statuses </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Let users with Customer Community Plus licenses change their case status in
              Visualforce sites.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Allow users to see contacts that haven’t been enabled for partner or customer
              accounts</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Let users see contacts from private accounts that they have read access to when
              the contact is associated with the parent record of their own contact
              record.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.exp_cloud_partner_create_considerations.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Require unique usernames for partners in this
                org</a>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Orgs created after Winter ’19 automatically contain username uniqueness at the
              org level. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Allow using standard external profiles for self-registration, user creation,
              and login</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Each external license type is associated with a default profile in the org.
              Enable this setting to let external users self-register and log in with the default
              external profile. Salesforce best practice is to clone the default profile and add
              all the permissions needed to the cloned profile. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Hide first and last name fields in SOAP API for site users, when making API
              calls from within a site with nicknames enabled</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">This setting applies to SOAP API when used in an Aura controller that is
              invoked from a Lightning component on an Experience Cloud site.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Hide badges from guest users in Experience Builder sites</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Hide badges used in gamification from guest users in Aura sites.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Moderation Rule Settings</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Moderation applies to all feed posts regardless of where they are
              visible</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Apply moderation flags and rules to all feed posts, including those visible
              across multiple sites. When this setting is disabled, moderation applies only to
              site-specific feed posts. </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Moderation rules can be configured for internal users’ feed posts on
              records</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Apply moderation rules to internal users’ feed posts on records that might be
              visible across multiple sites.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Salesforce Mobile Settings for
                Experiences</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Support links to Visualforce pages from site pages made using Visualforce in
              the mobile app</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Keep the Apex prefix in Experience Cloud site URLs so links between Visualforce
              pages resolve in Salesforce. Enabling this setting keeps the Apex prefix in all of
              your Experience Cloud site URLs.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>New User Email Settings</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Link expires in [x] days</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Select how many days you’d like an activation email to remain active.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Account Relationship Settings</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Enable Account Relationships</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Enable to show Account Relationship objects and their associated sharing rules.
              After you enable this option, you can't disable it in your org.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>External Account Hierarchy Settings</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Enable External Account Hierarchy</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Enable to show External Account Hierarchy objects. After you enable this
              option, you can't disable it in your org.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Embedded Login</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Apply Login Page Type to Embedded Login </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">Applies the site’s login page type (default, Login Discovery, Experience
              Builder, or Visualforce) to its Embedded Login implementations.</td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">Block Redirect to Unknown URL</td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">For the site’s Embedded Login implementations, blocks redirects to unknown URLs
              that are provided in the state parameter of the OAuth response. Redirects are
              allowed only when the URL is in the same host or domain as the site or is
              allow-listed in the Embedded Login salesforce-allowed-domains meta tag.</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Sharing Sets</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.networks_setting_light_users.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Create a sharing set</a>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">&nbsp;</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 d69240e143 ">
              <strong>Convert Site Member Access</strong>
            </td>

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            <td data-label="Setting" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e140 ">
              <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.customer_portal_access_wizard.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Convert Site Member Access</a>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d69240e143 ">&nbsp;</td>

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        </tbody>
      </table>