What are public sites?

Public sites are customer-facing websites configured on your BeyondTrust Appliance B Series. They serve as entry points where customers can initiate support sessions, and all session traffic is routed through these sites.

How are public sites useful?

Public sites enable customers to easily access support by initiating sessions online, while ensuring session traffic is efficiently directed and securely managed through the BeyondTrust Appliance B Series.

How do I access the Public Portals page?

Use a Chromium-based browser to sign in to your Remote Support URL.
This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by /login.
From the left menu, click Public Portals.
The Public Sites page opens and displays by default.

Configure a public site

Add new site, edit, delete

Create a new site, modify an existing site, or remove an existing site.

Add or edit public site

Name

Create a unique name to help identify this site. This name helps you determine the public portal through which a customer entered. The default site name cannot be changed.

Site addresses

Each site must have at least one DNS that resolves to your BeyondTrust Appliance B Series. Multiple hostnames can direct to one site, but one hostname cannot be used for multiple sites.

Default Support Button profile

Choose which Support Button profile to use for this public site, either the default profile or a customized profile. The button profiles are configured from the Configuration > Support Buttons page.

Public template

Configure the page design and layout by selecting a public web template, configured from the Public Portals > HTML Templates page.

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For more information, please see Public site HTML template.

Require SAML authentication

If SAML For Public Portals is configured on the Users & Security > Security Providers page, this option is available. If checked, customers must authenticate with an identity provider before a session is initiated using the public support portal.

Display customer notices

You can opt to display customer notices on the public site. If this option is checked, the notices are displayed on the public portal, warning customers of potential problems they may be experiencing and for which no support may be needed at this time. This way customers may never enter the support queue, thus allowing representatives to dedicate their attention to customers who need assistance. Customer notices are configured on the Public Portals > Customer Notices page.

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The same customer notice can be used across several sites, or on a custom portal. The XML for the public portal contains a section where all current notifications are shown. This ensures that messages are always in sync across several sites.

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For more information, please see Connection options.

Attempt to launch sessions from installed Jump Clients

If this option is checked, and there is already a Jump Client installed on the user's system, an elevated session launches from the existing Jump Client. This applies to both the portal and the session generation API.

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For the elevated session to start, a similar permission must be granted for the Jump Client. Please see Allow ad-hoc sessions to be started from existing Jump Clients.

Representative list

Use representative list

The representative list displays the names of all logged-in representatives, sorted according to display number. When a customer clicks a name and runs the customer client, a session immediately appears in that representative’s personal queue.

Choose if this session initiation option should be available for this support portal. Select if this option should be enabled for the public site and the API, enabled for the API but hidden on the public site, or disabled.

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A representative giving a presentation will by default be removed from the representative list, although this exclusion from the representative list can be overridden by selecting Showing on Representative List from the representative console.

Display help text

Choose if you would like to display help text for this option on the public site. You may customize the text displayed. To revert to the default text, delete the text from the field and then save the blank field.

Start session using click-to-chat

Uncheck to start sessions with the full customer client rather than web-based chats. Starting sessions with web-based chats is the recommended way to start sessions.

Presentation list

Use presentation list

The presentation list displays active presentations. For a presentation to be listed here, the representative must have started the presentation and selected to show the presentation on the public site.

Display help text

Choose if you would like to display help text for this option on the public site. You may customize the text displayed. To revert to the default text, delete the text from the field and then save the blank field.

Session keys

Use session keys

You can generate a session key for a support session or presentation and give it to your customer beforehand, requesting them to submit it on your public site. Running the customer client from a session key places the customer in the queue with the representative who generated the key.

Choose if this session initiation option should be available for this support portal. Select if this option should be enabled for the public site and the API, enabled for the API but hidden on the public site, or disabled.

Display help text

Choose if you would like to display help text for this option on the public site. You may customize the text displayed. To revert to the default text, delete the text from the field and then save the blank field.

Start session using click-to-chat

Uncheck to start sessions with the full customer client rather than web-based chats. Starting sessions with web-based chats is the recommended way to start sessions.

Prompt before downloading the Remote Support customer client

Checking the option to prompt the customer requires the remote user to confirm that they would like to start a support session or join a presentation before beginning the BeyondTrust client download. If this option is unchecked, the client download begins as soon as the customer submits the session key or follows the session key link.

Issue submission survey

Use issue submission survey

Your customer can fill out an issue submission survey to request support.

Choose if this session initiation option should be available for this support portal. Select if this option should be enabled for the public site and the API, enabled for the API but hidden on the public site, or disabled.

Session queue selection

If you set the survey to display common issues, your customer can select the type of problem they are experiencing. Then they will be placed in queue for the team that owns the selected issue.

If you set the survey to list available representatives, your customer will be placed in the selected representative’s personal queue. Note that all representatives are displayed, regardless of team membership.

Display issues for all teams

Select Display Issues for All Teams to list all configured issues, or select the teams whose issues you want to display on this site.

Available/displayed fields

From the available fields, select which information fields should display on this site. Go to Configuration > Custom Fields to create and manage these fields.

Display help text

Choose if you would like to display help text for this option on the public site. You may customize the text displayed. To revert to the default text, delete the text from the field and then save the blank field.

Start session using click-to-chat

Uncheck to start sessions with the full customer client rather than web-based chats. Starting sessions with web-based chats is the recommended way to start sessions.

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For more information, please see the API guide.

Post-session landing page

Enable post-session landing page

Choose per site whether to display a customer exit survey on the BeyondTrust landing page, to redirect your customer to an external URL, or not to send your customer to any landing page

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For more information, please see Uninstall message and exit surveys.

Available/displayed questions

If you enable the BeyondTrust landing page, select which questions should appear in this site's survey. Questions are configured on the Public Portals > Exit Surveys page.

Enable customers to download chat transcript and/or session recording

If you enable the BeyondTrust landing page, you also may choose to provide the customer with a link to download the chat transcript and/or the video recording of the session.

External landing URL

If you enable a custom landing page, set the external landing URL to which customers should be directed after a support session.

Representative survey

Enable representative survey

You can choose to display a representative survey. The survey will display when a session is completed. It is also possible to allow the representative access to the survey during a session. This option allows administrators to use the survey to create detailed workflows containing external web links with resources, as well as to ensure that representatives record specific information or follow a preset number of support steps. The option to display the survey during a session is configured on the Public Portals > Exit Surveys page.

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For more information, please see Representative survey.

Available/displayed questions

If you enable a representative survey, select which questions to display. Questions are configured on the Public Portals > Exit Surveys page.