About Portals

For portal owners.

For portal owners:
A portal sits above sites and lets one organisation administer many of them.
With a portal, you can apply your own branding and colours, serve Cloud from your own domain, add sites and users as you need them, and manage notifications across the whole estate.
A portal also enables multi-sites, which drive several sites from a single Control Panel and schedule. That suits an organisation where individual site owners keep day-to-day control but a central team — a city authority, a campus estates department, a head office — needs to operate everything at once.
Capability Topic
Several sites, one Control Panel and schedule Multi-sites
Adding sites, employees and end users Administration
Every site, user and device in one list Portal-wide lists
Where the portal has portal-wide file uploads:
On portals with Designer LPC Family, Designer MSC Family, Designer VLC Family, Designer Atlas Family, Express, Animate, or Perform:
One file can also be sent to many devices of the same model across every site — see My files.
Per-portal features
Not every feature is switched on for every portal. These are the ones that are decided portal by portal rather than shipped to everybody, so a topic describing one may cover something your portal does not have. Ask your portal's support contact to have any of them enabled.
Feature What it adds
API keys Lets an external system make requests to a site without a person signing in
Authentication options Sign-in methods beyond email and password — single sign-on, passkeys, and a two-factor policy
Fixture status Polls the luminaires attached to a device over RDM, and reports their status per fixture and per site
My files Transfers one file to many devices of the same model, across sites
Notifications Emails users when devices, fixtures or subscriptions change state
On Device Schedules Puts a schedule on the device itself, so it keeps running while the site is offline
User Roles Named sets of permissions, assigned to a user at portal, multi-site or site level
Vouchers Lets a site's subscription be renewed by redeeming a voucher, bought and paid for without involving you

Capability	Topic
Several sites, one Control Panel and schedule	Multi-sites
Adding sites, employees and end users	Administration
Every site, user and device in one list	Portal-wide lists

Feature	What it adds
API keys	Lets an external system make requests to a site without a person signing in
Authentication options	Sign-in methods beyond email and password — single sign-on, passkeys, and a two-factor policy
Fixture status	Polls the luminaires attached to a device over RDM, and reports their status per fixture and per site
My files	Transfers one file to many devices of the same model, across sites
Notifications	Emails users when devices, fixtures or subscriptions change state
On Device Schedules	Puts a schedule on the device itself, so it keeps running while the site is offline
User Roles	Named sets of permissions, assigned to a user at portal, multi-site or site level
Vouchers	Lets a site's subscription be renewed by redeeming a voucher, bought and paid for without involving you