Hello,

Today we will focus on Salesforce Experience Cloud.
I would like to show you how we can create a custom logout button, which allows you to use it in custom navigation or custom components.
To achieve this goal, we will use the existing salesforce event listener, and we will create simple Aura and LWC components.
Let’s get started!

Solution Background

In your community, you can find a js file called logoutHandler.js.
You can open it using chrome dev tools.
As you can see on the screens below, when the community is rendered, there is an event listener on force:logout event.
What we need to do is only fire that event on your own component!
Based on those assumptions we can develop our code.

Code

Aura will be used as a wrapper and a place to fire our event.
$A.get(e.force:logout).fire();
Unfortunately, we cannot fire it directly from Lightning Web Component.
LWC will contain only the logout appearance.

Lightning Web Component

customLogoutButton.html

<template>
  <lightning-button
    label=Logout
    title=Logout
    icon-position=right
    icon-name=utility:logout
    onclick={handleLogout}
  ></lightning-button>
</template>

customLogoutButton.js

import { LightningElement } from 'lwc';

export default class CustomLogoutButton extends LightningElement {

    handleLogout() {
        this.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('logout'));
    }
}

Aura Wrapper

customLogoutButtonWrapper.cmp

<aura:component implements=forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes access=global>
    <c:customLogoutButton onlogout={!c.handleLogout}/>
</aura:component>

customLogoutButtonWrapperController.js

({
    handleLogout : function(component, event, helper) {
        $A.get(e.force:logout).fire();
    }
})

That’s all that I have for you today!
Enjoy!

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References

• Salesforce Events