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We’ve received a lot of recent demand regarding the ability to customize the Customer Portal, so naturally, we listened to our customers and come up with a solution.
We recently rolled out the first phase of these changes.
You can now select from a range of beautiful shiny customer portal templates. Due to popular demand, we’ve toned down our Beetil branding. You can change the name of your portal. And you can even customise the contact details that appear in the footer.
So how do you get started with all this? First off, you need to be a Beetil administrator. If not, you might want to shout your administrator a coffee, or some jellybeans, or whatever makes him/her happy!
If you go into your customer portal administration page (/admin/portal) click “Edit Details” you’ll be presented with a screen much like this:
Selecting a template will update the preview on the right. Admin users now have control over the Customer Portal name, as well as the added ability to provide contact information which appears in the footer of your Customer Portal.
Uploading a logo will also update the preview, this logo is displayed on the login page of your customer portal as well as on the header of the portal itself. Remember that for the best effect, use a transparent logo of a size that fits within our template designs.
Once you’re comfortable with how your customer portal looks, hit save, and log onto your portal with your customer account, and viola~ doesn’t it look beautiful!
Coming Soon to a Beetil Near You
Watch this space for when we’ll be releasing the next exciting installment of customer portal style goodness, where you’ll be able to upload your own CSS and images to gain even more control over your customer portal!
Need more help?
As ever, you can always contact us on email at support@beetil.com, or catch us around the Campfire.
Tags: customisation, portal
February 2nd, 2010
Good work guys. Like the sound of the coming ability to inject our own CSS - what about enabling us to hack further with our own JavaScript as well?
February 3rd, 2010
The ability to upload your own templates will allow admins to upload their main custom stylesheet and IE stylesheets as well as any number of images.
The ability to add custom javascript files poses as a security risk and will be ignored when users upload their own templates.