Compare Employee Services Portal Templates

Compare the two Experience Cloud templates available for IT Service, Agentic Center and Agentforce Employee Center, to choose the right one for your Employee Services portal site.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions with Agentforce IT Service.
Note
Note You can't switch an Aura portal site to an LWR portal site after the site is created. Choose the template that fits your needs before you create the site.
Capability Agentic Center Agentforce Employee Center
Underlying template framework Aura Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) Enhanced
Default navigation menu Yes (Default items: Home, Knowledge Center, My Incidents, My Cases, My Approvals, Service Catalog) Yes (Default item: Home)
Alternative prebuilt navigation menu Yes (Includes Home, Knowledge Center, My Incidents, My Cases, My Approvals, and Contact Support) Yes (Includes Home, Catalogs, My Hub (My Tickets, My Assets, My Favorites), and HR (My Enablements))
Search bar Yes Yes
Search results page layout Combined results page across record types (Knowledge, Cases, Incidents, Products, and Service Requests on one page, sorted by relevance), plus per-record-type tabs Per-record-type tabs only (one record type at a time)
Quick-action tiles on the home page Yes Yes
Announcements widget on the home page No Yes
Policy Hub and Compliance Evidence Hub pages No Yes
Unified My Tickets page (incidents, service requests, and cases in one view) No (separate My Incidents and My Cases pages) Yes
My Assets page No Yes
Knowledge article favorites (with a dedicated Favorites page) No Yes
Dynamic Q&A (AI-generated answers) No Yes
Knowledge Summaries (AI-generated article overviews) No Yes
Ticket detail fields controlled by page layout Yes Yes (details section fields follow the object's assigned page layout)
Comment on tickets and read replies from the ticket feed No Yes
Attach files to incident tickets No Yes
Configurable global search settings Yes No
Service Catalog Yes Yes
Manager approvals Yes Yes
Embedded Messaging Yes Yes