Set up the public portal

The public portal is a web page for your product's feedback: a request board with votes and comments, each request with your team's public reasons, and a roadmap of what's planned, in progress and shipped.

Turn the portal on

The portal is off by default, because some teams keep requests private. To turn it on, an owner or admin opens the product's Keys page, goes to Public portal, switches it on and saves. Your portal's address is shown next to the switch, for example https://list79.com/p/your-product.

What visitors see

• Requests: Popular, New, Planned and Shipped tabs, plus search.
• A page for each request: its description, comments, and your public reason when you plan or decline it.
• Roadmap: Planned, In progress and Shipped columns.

Email addresses are never shown on the portal. Replies from your team are labelled as "Your product team".

Let people vote, comment and suggest

Anyone can read the portal. To vote, comment or suggest, people sign in through your app, so they use the account they already have:

1. In the portal settings, enter Sign-in page in your app, for example https://app.example.com/list79-sign-in.
2. When someone chooses Sign in on the portal, they're sent to that page with a return parameter.
3. Your page signs them in (if they aren't already), creates a user token the same way as for the widget, and redirects to https://list79.com/p/your-product/sso?token=…&return=….
4. The portal checks the token, signs them in to the portal, and takes them back to where they were.

Keep this token short-lived (a few minutes), because it travels in the address bar. Without a sign-in page, the portal is read-only.

Language

The portal is available in seven languages, and visitors can switch at the bottom of every page. See Languages.