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Create a Client Portal User

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To allow a customer to access your Salesforce Customer Portal, you must enable the customer's contact as a Portal user.  You can either disable or deactivate Customer Portal users at any time.

Go to a Contact Record

Go to a Contact

Click the Work With Portal

Select Enable Customer Portal User

Complete the New User Form

Complete the New User form.
  • Verify the general information and locale settings, and enter any missing information.
    • Note that the customer's Username defaults to his or her Email. Change this if needed, as this does not have to match the users email - it only has to be formatted like an email address - it must be a unique username not used ion any other login to Advologix or other Salesforce instance.
    • All fields will normally be set to the best selection for default values.
  • Editas necessary.
    • Make sure you set the Profile field as shown in this screen shot
  • Click Save.
    • An email will be sent to the contact with log in and other information based on the Email Templates configured for the Client Portal.
  • To log in as the contact to see how the portal looks to a client:
To log in as the contact to see how the portal looks to a client:

To troubleshoot or confirm the portal configuration:

  1. Go back to the Contact.
  2. From the Work With Portal button
  3. Select Login As Portal User as shown in the screen shot here
  4. This opens a new browser window and logs you into the portal as the partner user.

Tips on Enabling the Portal for Contacts

Consider the following when enabling the Portal for contacts:

  • To view or edit an enabled contact's access to your Customer Portal, on the contact detail page, click Work with Portal and choose View Customer Portal User.
  • You cannot enable the contact for the Customer Portal unless the owner of the contact's account is associated with a role in your organization.
  • The first time you enable a contact for the Customer Portal on an account, you cannot assign the contact to a portal role.
  • The contact is automatically assigned to the Customer User role, which includes the name of the contact's account.
  • You can update contact's portal role later.

A contact can be either a partner or customer portal user, but not both. If a user is a partner user and a Customer Portal user, then you need to create two contact records for the user so that he or she can have a separate username and password for each portal.

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