Salesforce Winter 20 Release has lot of enhancement for lighting communities. Now we can build highly customized pages with flexible layouts. We can use role-based access to control who can do what as team builds and customizes communities. We can create multiple navigation menus, and use and reuse them in any navigation menu component, including tile menus.

Flexible Layouts for Pages

Now we can experience the freedom of flexible layouts and use them to build highly customized pages.  We can make fancy with adjustable columns and easy-to-add sections. Excellent background images and color can make community better.

How we can change layout:

To change a column size, grab and drag the handles between the columns. Use the Section Style options to customize your images, color, section height, and content width. Add sections using the + icon to stack them and build out the page.

 New Page Creation:

In Community Builder, open the Pages menu in the top toolbar. Select New Page | Standard Page. Then select Flexible Layout, and begin building your page. To use a flexible layout with an existing page, create a page variation.

Manage Contributors and Their Roles in Builder

Experience admin

Experience admin contributors can do everything in an assigned community. They have access to Community Builder, can manage contributors, and publish the site.

Publisher

Publisher will help in building and publishing and they have access to Community Builder. They can publish the site in an assigned community. Publisher can’t manage contributors. They have read-only access to the Community Workspaces Administration| Contributors tab.

Builder

Builder can help building the assigned community. They have access to Community Builder. They can’t publish the site or manage contributors. They have read-only access to the Community Workspaces Administration | Contributors tab.

Viewer

Viewers have read-only access to Community Builder in an assigned community. They can’t publish the site or manage contributors. They have read-only access to the Community Workspaces Administration | Contributors tab.

How to add these roles:

Salesforce admin or an experience admin can add contributors in that community. In community, go to Community Workspaces, and select the Administration tile. Then select Contributors | Add Contributor, and assign roles as required.

Reference for community member : Add Members to Your Community

Set Up Navigation Menu Variations

Now we can create multiple navigation menus and use and reuse them in any navigation menu and tile menu components. We can have different navigation menus on different theme layouts and create custom navigation menu components that are based on existing menus.

Clearer Character Limits on Questions

Community feeds have character limit of 255 characters on a Question field. We can find out character limit after you clicked Ask. Now the limit is clearly noted on the Question field, and application stops us when you reach 255 characters.

Make Files on Records Visible to Customers

Broaden Horizons with More Width Control

All default theme layouts in Lightning theme templates now include the option to set the maximum page width. Let pages boldly span to the edges of the browser window, or set specific pixel size boundaries to control the width of the content across the page.

How to do this: 

In Community Builder, select Theme Panel | Theme Settings. Select Set max page width and use the slider to set the width. If we deselect Set max page width, the page width fills the page. This setting doesn’t affect the header, hero or footer, custom overrides, and existing theme layouts.

Improve Tracking with the New Google Analytics™ Standard

Google Analytics is integrated using global site tag (gtag.js) standard, so we now have access to the latest tracking features and integrations from Google.

How to do this: New communities are automatically using the gtag standard. Communities created before Winter ’20 must manually update to the newest community template to take advantage of this capability.