experience-ui-bundle-site-generate

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name: experience-ui-bundle-site-generate
description: MUST activate when the project contains a uiBundles/*/src/ directory and the task involves creating or configuring site infrastructure. Use this skill when creating or configuring a Salesforce Digital Experience Site for hosting a UI bundle. Activate when files matching digitalExperiences/, networks/, customSite/, or DigitalExperienceBundle exist and need modification, or when the user wants to publish, host, or configure guest access for their app.
license: Apache-2.0
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# Digital Experience Site for React UI Bundles
Create and configure Digital Experience Sites that host React UI bundles on Salesforce. This skill generates the minimum necessary site infrastructure — Network, CustomSite, DigitalExperienceConfig, DigitalExperienceBundle, and the `sfdc_cms__site` content type — so a React app can be served from Salesforce.

React sites differ from standard LWR sites: they don't need routes, views, theme layouts, or branding sets. The site acts as a thin container (`appContainer: true`) that delegates rendering to the React UI bundle referenced by `appSpace`.

## Required Properties
Resolve all five properties before generating any metadata. Each has a fallback chain — work through each option in order until a value is found.

| Property | Format | How to Resolve |
|----------|--------|----------------|
| **siteName** | `UpperCamelCase` (e.g., `MyCommunity`) | Ask user or derive from context |
| **siteUrlPathPrefix** | `All lowercase` (e.g., `mycommunity`) | User-provided, or convert siteName to all lowercase with alphanumeric characters only |
| **appNamespace** | String | `namespace` in `sfdx-project.json` → `sf data query -q "SELECT NamespacePrefix FROM Organization" --target-org ${usernameOrAlias}` → default `c` |
| **appDevName** | String | `UIBundle` metadata in the project → `sf data query -q "SELECT DeveloperName FROM UIBundle" --target-org ${usernameOrAlias}` → default to siteName |
| **enableGuestAccess** | Boolean | Ask user whether unauthenticated guest users can access site APIs → default `false` |

The `appNamespace` and `appDevName` properties connect the site to the correct React application. Getting these wrong means the site deploys but shows a blank page, so take care to resolve them from real project data.

## Generation Workflow
### Step 1: Resolve All Required Properties
Determine values for all five properties before constructing anything. Use the resolution strategies in the table above, falling through each option until a value is found.

### Step 2: Create the Project Structure
Use available Salesforce metadata schema and field context for `Network`, `CustomSite`, `DigitalExperienceConfig`, and `DigitalExperienceBundle` to ensure each file uses valid structure.

Create any files and directories that don't already exist, using these paths:

| Metadata Type | Path |
|--------------|------|
| Network | `networks/{siteName}.network-meta.xml` |
| CustomSite | `sites/{siteName}.site-meta.xml` |
| DigitalExperienceConfig | `digitalExperienceConfigs/{siteName}1.digitalExperienceConfig-meta.xml` |
| DigitalExperienceBundle | `digitalExperiences/site/{siteName}1/{siteName}1.digitalExperience-meta.xml` |
| DigitalExperience (sfdc_cms__site) | `digitalExperiences/site/{siteName}1/sfdc_cms__site/{siteName}1/*` |

The DigitalExperience directory contains only `_meta.json` and `content.json`. Do not create any directories other than `sfdc_cms__site` inside the bundle.

### Step 3: Populate All Metadata Fields
Use the default templates in the docs below. Values in `{braces}` are resolved property references — substitute them with the actual values from Step 1.

| Metadata Type | Template Reference |
|--------------|-------------------|
| Network | [configure-metadata-network.md](references/configure-metadata-network.md) |
| CustomSite | [configure-metadata-custom-site.md](references/configure-metadata-custom-site.md) |
| DigitalExperienceConfig | [configure-metadata-digital-experience-config.md](references/configure-metadata-digital-experience-config.md) |
| DigitalExperienceBundle | [configure-metadata-digital-experience-bundle.md](references/configure-metadata-digital-experience-bundle.md) |
| DigitalExperience (sfdc_cms__site) | [configure-metadata-digital-experience.md](references/configure-metadata-digital-experience.md) |

For URL updates, see [update-site-urls.md](references/update-site-urls.md).

### Execution Note for Step 3: Load and use the docs
- Agents MUST read the full contents of each references/*.md file referenced in Step 3 before attempting to populate metadata fields.
- Use your platform's file-read tool (for example, `read_file`) to load these files in full, then perform placeholder substitution for values in `{braces}` using the resolved properties from Step 1.
- Files to load:
  - `references/configure-metadata-network.md`
  - `references/configure-metadata-custom-site.md`
  - `references/configure-metadata-digital-experience-config.md`
  - `references/configure-metadata-digital-experience-bundle.md`
  - `references/configure-metadata-digital-experience.md`
- Read entire file contents, replace placeholders (e.g. `{siteName}`) with the resolved values, then use the expanded templates to populate the metadata XML/JSON content.
  
### Step 4: Do Not Modify Non-Templated Properties
Do not modify any default property values for `Network`, `CustomSite`, `DigitalExperience`, `DigitalExperienceConfig`, or `DigitalExperienceBundle` metadata that are not expressed as variables wrapped in `{braces}`.

## Verification Checklist
Before deploying, confirm:

- [ ] All five required properties are resolved
- [ ] All metadata directories and files exist per the project structure
- [ ] All metadata fields match the Step 3 templates with `{braces}` substituted only; no other default property values were added or changed
- [ ] `appSpace` in `content.json` matches an existing `UIBundle` metadata record
- [ ] Deployment validates successfully:
```bash
sf project deploy validate --metadata Network CustomSite DigitalExperienceConfig DigitalExperienceBundle DigitalExperience --target-org ${usernameOrAlias}
```

## Common Workflows

### Updating Experience Site URLs

**Use when** user wants to update or change site URLs (urlPathPrefix).

**Steps**:
- [ ] Read [update-site-urls.md](references/update-site-urls.md) to understand the three-component architecture and URL update workflow
- [ ] Follow the step-by-step workflow in the doc to update URLs consistently across all three components (DigitalExperienceConfig, Network, CustomSite)