The SmartAdvocate Client Portal is a website that permits your firm to collaborate with your clients without requiring direct interaction with your staff. You can make documents, notes, and other information from SmartAdvocate available to clients, while clients can also upload information directly into their SmartAdvocate case file. No information from SmartAdvocate is automatically made available on the Client Portal; specific action is required by your or a staff member (for example, clicking on a checkbox marked "Share in Client Portal") in order for anything to be shared. (The only exceptions are appointments in which the client is a participant; these will automatically be visible to the client on the Portal.) Access to the Client Portal, what information is available, and how it appears, are governed by the Client Portal Administration page.
The Client Portal is an additional feature available to all SmartAdvocate clients, for more information on getting your Client Portal set up for your firm please reach out to your salesperson or support@smartadvocate.assist.com

The Structure of This Page

The Client Portal Administration page is divided into six tabs. All six tabs are visible at all times, however you can only view the content of one tab at a time; clicking the heading of the tab you want to access will bring up that tab’s information. The available tabs are Registration Token Management, Password Reset Token Management, User Management, Case Statuses, Look & Feel and Feature Management. There is also a date range field (with an Apply button), which filters the results in the active tab based on the date an action was taken.

Registration Token Management

Invitations to clients for accessing the Client Portal, including the generation of tokens, are accomplished in this tab.

Generate New Token button: Used to generate a token, which allows a client access to the Client Portal. Select the client to whom you would like to send an invitation. The contact must have their SSN number listed on their contact card, as the last 4 digits are required to complete their registration.

Registration Email: The client's email address, taken from their contact card. The registration invitation will be sent to this address.
Registration Token: The registration token automatically created for this. The token is automatically created by SmartAdvocate and cannot be edited.
Token Issued: The date this client's registration token was issued.
Token Used: The date this client's registration token was used to register for the client portal.
Name: The client's name.
User Name: The client's user name for access to the Client Portal (usually the client's email address).
#: The Action column. Until a client activates his or her token by clicking the link in the invitation email they receive, a Delete button will be available to delete the token and remove that client's access to the Client Portal. Once the token has been activated, the token can no longer be deleted and this column is empty.

Password Reset Token Management

In the event a client has forgotten his or her password for the Client Portal, a new token must be issued to that client. The process is identical to creating an original Registration Token, except the email sent to the client is for a password reset, rather than an invitation.

User Management

A client's current status on the Client Portal can be viewed and edited in this tab.

Name: The client's name.
User Name: The client's user name for access to the Client Portal (usually the client's email address).
Last Login: The date on which the client last logged into the Client Portal.
Bad Login Attempts: The number of unsuccessful attempts the client has made to log into the Client Portal. After a set number of unsuccessful attempts, the client will be locked out of the Portal.
Is Locked: Whether the client is locked out of the Client Portal.
Is Enabled: Whether the client's login to the Client Portal is currently enabled.
Is Activated: Whether the client has activated his or her token to access the Client Portal.
#: The Action column. An Edit button allows the client's profile to be edited.

Editing the Client's Profile

The client's profile can be accessed by clicking on the Edit button on that client's row in the table.

Contact Card: The contact card to which this client is attached.
User Name: The client's user name for access to the Client Portal (usually the client's email address).
Bad Login Attempts: The number of unsuccessful attempts the client has made to log into the Client Portal. After a set number of unsuccessful attempts, the client will be locked out of the Portal.
Is Locked: Whether the client is locked out of the Client Portal. In the event the client has been locked out of the Portal, uncheck the Is Locked checkbox and click on Update to unlock the client's access. If the cause of the client being locked out of the Portal was having repeated unsuccessful attempts to access the Portal, it may be necessary to issue the client a new token for a password reset. See Password Reset Token Management for details.
Is Enabled: Whether the client's login to the Client Portal is currently enabled. Uncheck this checkbox to remove the client's access to the Portal.
Is Activated: Whether the client has activated his or her token to access the Client Portal.
Update: Button to save any changes made.

Case Statuses

The Case Status feature is more-or-less a timeline that shows the progression of the client's case. Although similar to the "regular" SmartAdvocate Case Statuses that are adjusted by the staff as the case moves forward, the status "Timeline" visible to the client in the Client Portal is different. Case Status in the Client Portal MUST be configured independently. Although you can configure the Case Timeline in Client Portal to correspond with the regular Case Statuses, it is generally more advisable to create "Statuses" for the Timeline that may be somewhat broader and more meaningful to the client. So, for example, we suggest you create Timeline Statuses such as "Initial Investigation," "Client Still Treating," "Submitted Insurance Demand," "Initial Court Conference Held," "Case Scheduled for Trial," etc. Furthermore, you generally do not need to create a corresponding "Timeline" status for the Client Portal for every "regular" status in SmartAdvocate. Multiple SmartAdvocate statuses can be combined and assigned to a single Client Portal status.

Add Case Status: Button to add a new Case Status for the Client Portal.
Case Status Order: The order in which the case statuses will be listed in the Client Portal.
Case Status: The name of the Case Status for the Client Portal.
SA Status(es): The SmartAdvocate status(es) that correspond to the Client Portal case status.
Case Group(s): The specific Case Groups for which the configured status settings will be displayed for.
Show Start Date: Whether the date the case went into the Client Portal case status will be shown.
Show Finished Date: Whether the date the Client Portal case status ended will be shown.
Show In Progress Message: Whether a message will be shown in the Client Portal indicating that the case is currently in the case status.
Show Completed Message: Whether a message will be shown in the Client Portal indicating that the case has completed the case status.
Description: A brief message (only 75 characters or less will be displayed) describing the status.
#: The Action column. An Edit and Delete button.

Add/Edit Case Status

Click on the Edit button in the Action column to edit an existing Case Status, or the Add Case Status button to add a new Case Status.

Case Status: The name of the Case Status for the Client Portal.
SA Case Status(es): A dropdown with multi-select checkboxes that allow you to choose multiple SmartAdvocate statuses to correspond to a single Client Portal case status.
SA Case Group(s): A dropdown with multi-select checkboxes that allow you to choose multiple Case Groups for which the configured status will be applied.
Case Status Order: The order in which the case statuses will be listed in the Client Portal.
Show Start Date: Whether the date the case went into the Client Portal case status will be shown.
Show Finished Date: Whether the date the Client Portal case status ended will be shown.
Show Completed Message: Whether a message will be shown in the Client Portal indicating that the case has completed the case status.
Description: A text box allowing you to enter a brief description (no more than 75 characters) of the status.
Show In Progress Message: Whether a message will be shown in the Client Portal indicating that the case is currently in the case status.

Look & Feel

The Look & Feel tab allows you to customize the Client Portal for your firm, as well as your clients' user experience when accessing the Client Portal. A dropdown allows you to choose which resource you wish to alter. The available options are:
CSS File: This option is not currently available in SmartAdvocate, but may be utilized in a future release.
Sign In Logo Image: Allows you to add your firm's logo to the sign-in page of the Client Portal. Click on the File image to locate and upload your logo.
Dashboard Header Logo Image: Allows you to add your firm's logo to the dashboard of the Client Portal. Click on the File image to locate and upload your logo.
Spinner Image: Allows you to change the spinner image used in the Client Portal while pages are loading. Click on the File image to locate and upload your logo.

Button Primary: Changes the color of the browse button when uploading documents to the Client Portal.

Calendar Activities Button: Changes the color of the Calendar Activities banner on the home page of the Client Portal.

Card Title: Changes the color of the title banner on the home screen of the Client Portal.

Collapse Menu Link Hover (3 strips on top): Changes the color of the Collapse menu button.

Dashboard Logo: Allows you to change the logo image that appears in the top left corner of the Client Portal.

Documents Information Cart Button: Changes the color of the Documents banner on the Client Portal homepage.

Unread Document Name Color: Changes the text color assigned to the Document name of any unread document.

Upload Table Field End Icon: Changes the color of the pencil icon to the right of the file name when uploading documents to the portal, indicating that the file name can be edited.

Included Cards Title: Changes the color of the title banners in the case information table on the Client Portal homepage.

Left Menu: Changes the color of the left navigation menu.

Left Menu Hover Item: Changes the text color assigned to the left menu items when you hover over them.

Left Menu List Link: Changes the text color assigned to the left menu items when displayed normally.

Left Menu Selected Item Background: Changes the color that displays in the background of the left menu item that is selected.

Link Hover: Changes the text color assigned to links when you hover over them.

Links: Changes the text color assigned to links.

Calendar Selected: Changes the color of the circle which appears on the calendar when an appointment is scheduled for that day.

Modal Window Focused Form Field Label:

Message Button: Changes the color of the Messages banner that appears on the homepage of the Client Portal homepage.

Password Change Info Message: Changes the background color of the password change box.

Page Top: Changes the color of the banner at the top of the Client Portal page.

Preloader Cube Box Shadow: Changes the color of the shadow that appears under the loading image.

Preloader Image: Changes the image that appears while loading.

Sign in and Password Change Pages Background Color: Changes the background color of the sign in and password change screen backgrounds.

Sign In Logo: The image that appears during sign in.

Progress Gauge Completed: Changes the background color of the completed steps of the progress gauge that is displayed on the Client Portal homepage.

Unread Document Icon: Changes the color of the page icon that appears to the left of unread documents.

Unread Message Icon: Changes the color of the message icon that appears in the top right of unread messages.

Upload Table Icon: Changes the color of the checkmark that appears next to a document that has been successfully uploaded to the Client Portal.

Upload Filename Hover Underline Color: Changes the color of the underline that appears when hovering over a document that is being uploaded to the Client Portal.

Your Case Timeline Cases List Bottom: Changes the color of the bottom section of the progress gauge.

Your Case Timeline Cases List Item: Changes the background color of unfinished progress gauge items.

Your Case Timeline Links: Changes the text color of the progress gauge labels.

Your Case Timeline Cases List Top: Changes the color of the top section of the progress gauge.

Feature Management

Feature Management allows you to choose whether certain features in Client Portal should be displayed or not.

Structure of this Page

Feature Name: The name of the feature to be displayed or hidden in the Client Portal. The options that can currently be hidden are Calendar/Activities, Client & Case Info, Contacts, Messages, Documents, Spare Time and Profile.
Hidden: A checkbox indicating whether or not that feature has been hidden.
#: An edit button allowing you to check a box to hide or display that feature.