Instance Deployment: To Specify the Tenant Available for Customer Portal Users

In this activity, you will learn how to specify the tenant that will be available for the Customer Portal users in a multitenant MYOB Acumatica configuration.

Story

Suppose that you are the system administrator of your company, and you need to specify the tenant to which the Customer Portal users will have access.

Process Overview

In this activity, you will configure the available tenant for the Customer Portal users.

System Preparation

Before you begin configuring the tenant, perform the following prerequisite activity: Instance Deployment: To Deploy a Customer Portal Instance.

Step: Configuring the Tenant Available to Customer Portal Users

To configure the tenant available to Customer Portal users, do the following:

Open the web.config file for the Customer Portal instance. This file is usually located in %Program Files%\Acumatica ERP\<instance name>, where <instance name> is the name of the Customer Portal instance.
In the file, find the providers section, which has the following settings.
```
<add name="PXSqlDatabaseProvider" ... companyID="" .../>
```
Change the following key value.
```
companyID="x" 
```
x is the ID of the tenant that you want to make available to Customer Portal users.
Save the web.config file; this automatically restarts the website.