I have been following the salesforce Recruiting App tutorial, and reached the section on creating a public site:
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/fundamentals/Content/adg_composite_app_public_sites.htm
I have built a simple page to display open jobs as described here:
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/fundamentals/Content/adg_composite_app_create_public_jobs_try_it_out.htm
This is displaying the open jobs correctly when I view it through our “internal” URL: https://c.ap1.visual.force.com/apex/PublicJobs
But when I view this same page through our “external” URL: http://servian-developer-edition.ap1.force.com/careers, the page still renders, except that now the list of jobs is empty.
I don’t think this is a permissions error, as if so it would surely prompt me to log in. What do I need to do to make the data show on the “external” URL?
Make sure the “guest” user for the site has Read permission for the Positions object on its profile. You can’t access the profile for the guest user through the normal Profile list page in Setup; instead, click on the Public Access Settings button from your site’s detail page. On the profile, go all the way to the bottom of the page and make sure the Read permission is checked. If its still not working, ensure the Field Level Security settings also correct for that profile. The FLS settings are controlled about mid-way down on the same page.