Customer Portal JSM

Question

Hi, I just want to know if there are better ways for the JSM portal to better display information. From an admins perspective, it is great.

I want to see what the customer sees on their side through the portal (please can you tell me how I do this)

I want to know if there is a better way for them to see the message and upload attachments as the layout is very minimal and unclear for our customer's usage.

They just want to view all tickets clearly and update them as needed and I want to see what they see on their side, please.

Shaz Begum · Answer

this link does not work unfortunately

Paul Wiggers · Answer

Hello @Shaz Begum

If you want to see the portal as a customer, I suggest you add a portal-only account with a private email address and use that account in another browser or incognito/inPrivate tab.

You can create a portal-only account by opening your service management project > Go to Customers > Add Customers

The default view is minimal, but you can modify the request types so that the customer can enter additional information. If you want, you can also attach a form that the customer can fill in.

It might help to add labels, make some fields required (just be sure you aren't also using the request type for your email channel), or add additional fields to help the customer provide the information you need to help the customer.

Using a third party like Refined or K15t allows you to customize the portal a lot more. However, you will lose the integration with JSM (no more linking of KB articles from the issue view), you cannot use forms, and customers that need to sign up for your portal need to jump through hoops to enter the correct portal.

Dan Breyen · Answer

With your Atlassian account, you can get to the portal. I use it all the time to see what my changes look like from the customer's perspective.  I also created an external account that uses the Portal Authentication for the same purpose.  You can assign your login as a customer for multiple organizations if you want to see specific issues for that Organization.

My Portal page is setup so they can add attachments to issues directly from the portal.

I'm trying to avoid using Third Party apps with our JSM system to avoid the extra cost.