Chat and share files with clients on board items in your Client Portal
Want to easily chat and share files with clients in your client portal? This guide covers everything you need to know about how to configure and make use of item comments in your client portal.

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Introduction
Say goodbye to emails: Start to collaborate and share files on board items with your clients via Item Comments
Collaborate with clients just like you would do via monday.com updates, but right from your client portal to your monday.com workspace, and vice versa. Chat on board items and easily exchange files and documents with your clients securely. Watch the video guide below to get a quick overview.
Configuration
How to enable Item Comments in your portal
It's super easy to get item comments rolling. First open the Client Portal Builder app and enable Item comments in the designated Board section where you would like collaborate with clients. You can always disable the feature with a click, in case you need to revoke access for your client.

Then open the monday.com board that's associated with the Board section from above. Click on one of the board items to exand its item view. Then click the + button to add the Client comments view. You might first need to click Explore more views, before you can search for it. Once added, it should look like in the following screenshot.

Comments to clients
How to write comments from monday.com
Now that you have successfuly added the Client comments item view to your board, you can start collaborating with your client right from your monday.com workspace. Head over to the board item of your choice and open the view. First, choose the target client portal from the left dropdown – usually you only have one. Then choose the target client from the right dropdown you want to communicate with. If you wonder why you have to choose the client here is due to the fact, that one board can be shared across multiple clients. This specific selection ensures that no communication is exposed to other clients. Everything else is pretty straight forward: Write your comment, add emojis if you like to, and optionally attach one or multiple files.

When your comment has been created, you or your client can reply to it. In the following screenshot, we replied to ourselves a couple of minutes later. Now lets see how all of this looks from a clients perspective in their client portal, proceed to Comments from clients further below.

Comments from clients
How to write comments in the client portal
Once Item comments are activated on one or multiple Board sections, your clients will have access to them in their client portal on the related boards. Further, they will get an Activity button displayed, listing all recent comments and activities from each board item. Everything works pretty much like for you in your monday.com workspace.

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