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I'm writing a small extension to Splendid at the moment. Right now, since I'm still evaluating, we're on the Community edition, which doesn't come with the Customer Portal. To ensure compatibility with the Professional and higher editions later, I want to make sure my data will be compatible, particularly in the area of username/password storage in the Contacts table (via webservice). Can someone advise if: a) The customer portal username is usually the email address, a non-email address, or it doesn't matter. b) If I can/should store the password in clear text in the database, or hash or encrypt it in some way? If so, how? I'm assuming that I should also set the PORTAL_ACTIVE field to true. I don't know what the PORTAL_APP field is for, but was not planning on using it, which hopefully should not conflict with the Splendid Customer Portal, unless of course, it's assuming that it will be preset to something. Thanks! Nich

Our customer portal app uses PORTAL_ACTIVE, PORTAL_NAME and PORTAL_PASSWORD fields in the Contacts table.  When a contact is marked as a portal user, we create a matching Users record to track changes that the portal user makes.