# Enabling a Content Portal

## Enabling a portal

Before you enable a portal be sure to choose which standards the external users may dispatch in. Then after a portal is enabled, make sure to add your approved user(s). 

1. Navigate to **Accounts** 
2. Click on your desired account you wish to add an external user to that portal
3. Go to the **Content** **Portal** tab 
4. Under **General** **Settings** look for the **Standards** section and choose all that apply
5. Then under the **Activation** section, click the checkbox for **Enable** **Content** **Portal** and hit **Save**.

From here make sure to add your [approved-users](https://guide.contentcontroller.com/content-portal/approved-users "mention") in order to grant them access the portal. 

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