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MSPortal distinguishes between your MSP team (tenant users) and your client contacts (company users). Most records are visible to both, but some items are for internal MSP use only, such as a planner item tracking an internal discussion about a client, a draft compliance check, or a goal meant for your team’s eyes. The Hide from company users toggle keeps individual records behind the scenes. When turned on, the item is filtered out of every surface a company user can see, including their dashboard widgets, list pages, detail panels, and the client onboarding portal.

Where the Toggle Appears

The same toggle is available on the following record types:
Record typeWhere to find the toggle
Planner itemsPlanner item edit dialog, in the footer next to Save
GoalsGoal edit dialog, next to the action buttons
Compliance itemsCompliance check detail dialog footer
Custom field definitionsSettings > Custom Fields, in the Visibility column on each row
Onboarding template itemsTemplate editor, labeled Visible to client portal
Onboarding portal itemsActive portal task editor, labeled Visible to client portal
DashboardsDashboard create/edit dialog, via the Visibility dropdown
The toggle is only shown to MSP tenant users. Company users never see it.

Default Behavior

All items default to visible to clients. You must explicitly turn on “Hide from company users” for a record to become internal.

What Company Users See

When an item is hidden:
  • It is excluded from every list, search, count, widget, and export that a company user can access
  • In the client onboarding portal, the task, document, or phase is filtered out entirely
  • Custom field values are not returned for the owning record
Items you hide still appear normally for your MSP team.

Onboarding: Template vs Portal

Onboarding items expose the toggle at two levels:
  • Template sets the default for any portal launched from that template
  • Portal lets you override the template default on a per-portal basis, so the same template can behave differently for different clients

Custom Fields

In Settings > Custom Fields, each field row has a Visibility column. Edit a field to flip the “Hide from company users” toggle. When hidden, company users still see the owning record but not the field itself or its value.

Dashboards

Dashboards use a slightly different control, a Visibility dropdown with two options:
  • Internal and External (clients can see) is the default and shows the dashboard to both MSP and company users
  • Internal only (MSP team) hides the dashboard entirely from company users
See Dashboards for more detail.

Use Cases

  • Draft compliance checks you are still writing
  • Planner items tracking internal MSP discussion about a client
  • Goals for MSP team alignment that should not be shared externally
  • Onboarding tasks that only your team performs in the background
  • Dashboards exposing internal metrics or margin data
  • Custom fields storing private notes or MSP-only flags