vocabulary:
  name: Salesforce Experience Cloud Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Operational vocabulary for Salesforce Experience Cloud covering digital
    experience sites, CMS content management, communities, feeds, and
    Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) development.
  version: "1.0"
  created: "2026-05-02"
  modified: "2026-05-02"
  tags:
    - CMS
    - Communities
    - CRM
    - Digital Experience
    - Experience Cloud
    - Salesforce

  domains:
    - name: Digital Experience Sites
      description: "Core concepts for Experience Cloud site creation and management."
      terms:
        - term: Experience Cloud Site
          definition: >-
            A branded digital portal built on the Salesforce platform for customer
            self-service, partner collaboration, or employee productivity.
          aliases: [Community, Portal, Experience]
          related: [LWR Site, Aura Site, Template]

        - term: Lightning Web Runtime (LWR)
          definition: >-
            Salesforce's next-generation JavaScript framework for building high-performance
            Experience Cloud sites with improved rendering and scalability.
          aliases: [LWR, Lightning Web Runtime Site]
          related: [Experience Cloud Site, Lightning Web Components]

        - term: ExperienceBundle
          definition: >-
            A Salesforce Metadata API type representing the configuration and
            content of an Experience Cloud site for deployment via SFDX/CI-CD.
          related: [Metadata API, Deployment, Network]

        - term: Network
          definition: >-
            The Salesforce object (Network__c) that represents an Experience Cloud
            community or portal and its configuration settings.
          related: [Experience Cloud Site, ExperienceBundle]

        - term: Guest User
          definition: >-
            An unauthenticated visitor to a public-facing Experience Cloud site.
            Guest users have limited access controlled by guest user profiles.
          aliases: [Unauthenticated User, Public User]
          related: [Experience Cloud Site, Profile]

    - name: CMS & Content
      description: "Salesforce CMS and content delivery concepts."
      terms:
        - term: CMS Content
          definition: >-
            Structured content items (news articles, FAQs, knowledge articles)
            managed in Salesforce CMS and published to Experience Cloud sites
            or headless frontends.
          aliases: [Managed Content, CMS Item]
          related: [Content Type, CMS Channel, Publishing]

        - term: CMS Channel
          definition: >-
            A delivery endpoint for Salesforce CMS content. Channels can be
            Experience Cloud sites (for on-platform delivery) or headless channels
            (for decoupled/API-first delivery).
          aliases: [Content Channel, Delivery Channel]
          related: [CMS Content, Headless CMS, Delivery API]

        - term: Content Type
          definition: >-
            A schema definition that specifies the fields available for a type
            of CMS content (e.g., a News article has Title, Body, Image fields).
          aliases: [Schema, Template]
          related: [CMS Content, CMS Channel]

        - term: Headless CMS
          definition: >-
            An architecture where CMS content is delivered via REST API to any
            frontend, decoupled from the Salesforce platform UI rendering.
          aliases: [API-first CMS, Decoupled CMS]
          related: [CMS Delivery API, CMS Channel]

    - name: Communities & Engagement
      description: "Chatter and community engagement concepts."
      terms:
        - term: Community
          definition: >-
            A group of users in an Experience Cloud site with access to shared
            feeds, topics, and collaboration tools.
          aliases: [Experience Community, Chatter Group]
          related: [Feed, Topic, Member]

        - term: Feed
          definition: >-
            A chronological stream of posts, questions, and links shared within
            a community. Each feed element can receive likes and comments.
          aliases: [News Feed, Chatter Feed]
          related: [Feed Element, Comment, Like]

        - term: Feed Element
          definition: >-
            An individual post in a community feed (text post, link post,
            question post, or file share).
          aliases: [Post, Feed Post]
          related: [Feed, Comment, Like]

        - term: Topic
          definition: >-
            A keyword-based category organizing community discussions.
            Users follow topics to see relevant content in their feeds.
          related: [Feed, Community, Knowledge]

    - name: Developer & Integration
      description: "Vocabulary for developers building on Experience Cloud."
      terms:
        - term: Salesforce Instance URL
          definition: >-
            The base URL for a Salesforce org (e.g., https://myorg.salesforce.com).
            Used as the base URI for all Experience Cloud API requests.
          aliases: [Instance, Org URL]
          related: [OAuth2, API]

        - term: Connected App
          definition: >-
            A Salesforce metadata component enabling OAuth2 authentication for
            external applications integrating with the Salesforce platform.
          aliases: [OAuth App, Integration App]
          related: [OAuth2, API, Authentication]

        - term: Lightning Web Components (LWC)
          definition: >-
            A Salesforce JavaScript framework for building UI components used
            in Experience Cloud sites, providing declarative data binding and
            access to Salesforce data.
          aliases: [LWC, Web Components]
          related: [LWR, Experience Cloud Site]