Client portal guide
Your client portal, explained.
Practical guidance for getting set up, keeping work moving, and finding the right place for every part of your Sun Locke workspace.
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Section 01
Onboarding.
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9 guides
Choosing Your Declared Function and Activities
Explains the onboarding step where you declare your job function and activities, how the portal recommends a role, and how to request changes later.
Getting Started as an Account Admin
Combined walkthrough for new Account Admins covering inviting team members, the role and capability system, approving access requests, the security dashboard, enabling MFA, and accessing billing.
Inviting Team Members to Your Organization
How to send portal invitations, what the invitee experience looks like, and how admins approve new users.
Multi-Organization Access
For users belonging to multiple Sun Locke client organizations: how to switch between orgs and complete onboarding for each.
Navigating the Client Dashboard
Overview of the dashboard layout: stat cards, project widgets, upcoming deadlines, announcements, and how to customize widgets.
Setting Up Your Account During Onboarding
Walks through the onboarding wizard step-by-step: completing your profile, selecting your role/function, and what happens while your access is pending approval.
Understanding Roles and Permissions
Explains client roles (Super Admin, Admin, Project Manager, Marketing, Communications, Contributor, Finance, Legal, Viewer), what each can access, and how capability packs extend permissions.
Welcome to the Sun Locke Client Portal
A first-look orientation covering how to log in, what each section of the portal does, and where to go for help.
What Is Pending Approval Status?
Why a new user may see a Pending Approval screen, who approves access, and what to do if approval takes too long.
Section 02
Projects & Work.
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12 guides
Due Soon and Overdue Tasks
Use the Due Soon view to stay on top of approaching deadlines and manage overdue items.
Reviewing and Approving Deliverables
Step through the deliverable review process, provide feedback, request changes, and give final approval.
Task Approvals and Reviews
Navigate the approval workflow for tasks requiring sign-off and provide feedback or approval decisions.
The Sun Locke Timeline View
Use the Sun Locke timeline view to see only agency-managed milestones and deliverables without personal calendar noise.
Understanding Deliverable Statuses
Reference guide to the nine deliverable statuses and the action needed at each stage.
Understanding Project Details and Campaigns
Learn how to navigate project details, view campaigns, and understand the relationship between projects and their initiatives.
Understanding Task Statuses
Reference guide explaining each task status and what action you should take at each stage.
Using the Project Timeline
Navigate the calendar view to see milestones, deliverable due dates, and campaign launches across all your projects.
Viewing Your Approvals Queue
Access your approvals queue to review pending items, track approval history, and submit approval decisions.
Viewing Your Projects
Find and browse your active projects, understand status indicators, and navigate to project details.
Working with Tasks
Access your task list, understand task statuses, and use filters to organize your work by due date or status.
Your Personal Marketing Calendar
Create and manage your own marketing events alongside Sun Locke work to keep all your initiatives in one place.
Section 03
Handbook & Resources.
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11 guides
Behavioral Gaps and Capacity Context
Understand behavioral gaps between strategy and execution, and how team capacity informs your improvement roadmap.
Brand Rules and Guidelines
Review your organization's brand rules, including logo usage, color standards, tone, and design guidelines.
How We Work Together
Learn the collaboration guidelines, communication preferences, and working agreements between your team and Sun Locke.
Key Context and Current Strategy Tabs
Understand your Key Context and Current Strategy tabs and how to use them for stakeholder alignment.
Reading Your Channel and Methods Analysis
Interpret your channel intelligence, methods evaluation, media mix allocation, and identify leaky funnels in your marketing.
Retaking the Marketing Assessment
Learn when and why to retake the assessment, how reassessment works, and how to track progress over time.
Taking the Marketing Assessment
Launch the marketing assessment, understand what it measures, and discover how results feed into your Marketing Intelligence dashboard.
Understanding Your Marketing Intelligence Dashboard
Learn how to read your health score, confidence-adjusted ratings, cohort benchmarking, and capability radar chart.
Viewing Your Company Profile
Access your company profile from the Handbook, review your organizational details, and learn how to request updates.
What the Marketing Assessment Measures
Understand the six capability dimensions measured by the assessment and why each one matters to your marketing success.
Your Account Handbook Overview
Learn what the Handbook page contains and how to use it as your brand source of truth.
Section 04
Content & Assets.
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7 guides
Browsing Your PIB Library
Learn what PIBs (Promotion Informational Bulletin) are and how to navigate your assigned playbooks, including multi-page documents and status labels.
Requesting Documentation from Your Team
Use the handbook request feature to ask your account team for specific documents and materials you need.
Understanding Document Security Scanning
Learn what happens when you upload a document, how to interpret scanning statuses, and what to do if a file is quarantined.
Understanding PIB Statuses
Learn what Draft, Published, and Archived PIB statuses mean and which versions you should use for guidance.
Uploading Documents to Your Handbook
Upload brand guidelines, marketing assets, legal documents, and other materials to your handbook. Learn how the automatic security scanning process works.
Using the Resources Page
Access external links and resources shared by your account team, including personalized recommendations from Marketing Intelligence.
Working with the Toolkit and Downloadable Assets
Browse your purchased toolkit products, expand product cards, and download individual assets with format and file size information.
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