Portal for external users
As a BMC Digital Workplace administrator, you can create an external portal as a subtenant of your regular BMC Digital Workplace application. By using this option, you achieve the following goals:
- Manage internal and external business processes separately.
- Configure and customize regular and external BMC Digital Workplace tenants separately.
An external portal is used by end users who are not internal to your organization (referred to as external users) and is primarily managed by a BMC Digital Workplace administrator of an external portal (referred to as an external administrator).
As a BMC Digital Workplace administrator, you can assign an external administrator to configure, manage, and expose an external portal to external users. External users have limited access to the BMC Digital Workplace features and can use the external portal to request simple services.
Note
We recommend that you review the data privacy regulations that apply to your end users, and leverage the privacy notice feature to share the required details.
You cannot enable this feature if you have a BMC Digital Workplace deployment where the managed service provider (MSP) mode is enabled.
External users cannot view or request services from the regular BMC Digital Workplace application unless the Global permission is set for services and articles.
The following video (3:19) explains the benefits of using an external BMC Digital Workplace portal and provides an overview of the features that are available to external users:
Scenarios for using an external portal
The following scenarios explain how external users can use an external BMC Digital Workplace portal.
How external users register and login
External users register in an external BMC Digital Workplace portal by completing a short web registration form.
Then, external users confirm their registration by using an auto-generated confirmation email, as shown in the following example:
If users do not receive the auto-generated confirmation email and hence cannot confirm their registration, these users can use the option of re-sending the confirmation code.
Note
If external users confirm their registration successfully, and the accounts are approved either automatically or manually by an external administrator, the users are automatically registered in BMC Remedy ITSM and BMC Digital Workplace Catalog. For more information about managing registered external users, see Managing access for external users.
Registered external users log in to an external portal by providing their email addresses and passwords in a short login form.
Note
If an external user attempts to log in by using an incorrect password more than two times, the user's account is locked for 10 minutes. The user can request password reset instructions by clicking Forgot password and providing a valid email address.
Features available to external users
The following table lists the BMC Digital Workplace features that are available to external users in an external portal:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Catalog |
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| Global search | External users can search for services and knowledge articles. Additionally, they can provide feedback about articles. |
| My Activity | The My Activity page displays active and past events of a user. This allows the user to track the statuses of the submitted requests. |
| Cart | External users can add enhanced catalog items to a cart to request all items at the same time, instead of submitting individual service requests one at a time. For more information, see Requesting more than one enhanced catalog item with a cart. |
| Preferences | On the Preferences page of an external BMC Digital Workplace portal, external users can view their profile information, edit notification settings, and change passwords to their accounts. |
| Notifications |
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The following illustration shows the Application Features section in the Admin console of an external portal and a limited set of features that an external administrator can enable for external users.
Other regular BMC Digital Workplace features are not available in an external portal and cannot be configured for external users. For more information about configuring an external portal, see Configuring an external portal for external users.
Comments
How we can customize the dwp login page in 20.02? we need to add link on dwp login page to register new user. please provide the steps.
Hi Arun,
Thanks for your comment. We need more information to be able to answer you fully. We have forwarded your request to BMC Customer Support, and someone from Support will be contacting you shortly.
Regards,
John
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