In Zoho Desk admins can create different portals to store and manage customer requests and business related information. Portals are particularly useful when there are different business verticals, products that are managed by one organization, sometimes region specific portals may also be created for businesses that have global presence.
By creating different portals in the Desk account admins can streamline data access, maintain data security, and manage business processes more efficiently.
For example, a manufacturing company that deals with different products and suppliers globally can manage product and vendor information more effectively by creating portals for individual products. It is possible that agents who handle tickets for one product may not be responsible for resolving the issues in another product. In such case, it makes sense to give the agents access to only those portals that they use routinely.
In order to maintain the streamlined data accessibility in both web and mobile platforms its necessary to replicate the same in the Desk mobile app as well. To facilitate this, Zoho Desk allows admins to select the profiles that should not have access a particular portal in the mobile app.
This will ensure that the data access and visibility in alike in both platforms.
Points to remember
- The permission to set mobile app access can be configured only in Desk's web application.
- Users who have admin access can set the access permissions.
Impact of the restriction to the portal
Once disabled, the agents cannot access the defined portal from their mobile app. It will restrict them to:
Login to the portal
Users will be unable to log into the restricted portal from the mobile app. An alert message will be displayed informing them about the access restriction and asking them to sign out.
Already logged in
If the user is logged into the portal prior to the restriction, an alert message will be displayed when the user attempts to perform any action on the ticket. This message will give them two options:
- Switch to another portal - This option will be shown only to those users who are part of more than one portal.
- Sign out.
To enable mobile app access
- Log into the Zoho Desk web application with administrative privilege.
- Go to Settings () > Users and Control > Permissions.
- Choose Profiles.
- Choose the desired profile you want to restrict from using the mobile app.
- Toggle Mobile App Access.