# Patient Portal Access

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/patient-portal-access/16648>\
**Category:** OpenEMR Development\
**Tags:** feature\
**Created:** [May 24, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/patient-portal-access/16648 "2021-05-24T15:27:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![htuck](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/htuck/32/15185_2.png) [@htuck](https://community.open-emr.org/u/htuck)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/patient-portal-access/16648/5 "2021-06-30T16:31:49Z")

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you’re very welcome.  
And in the time since my last post, a lot of updates have been happening in this forum thread- you might want to see if any of it is useful to you.

> [@Patient Documents for portal and staff rework](https://community.open-emr.org/t/patient-documents-for-portal-and-staff-rework/16303/):
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> I’ve reworked the portal documents workflow to be easier to use and added a canned help/instruction template. The new Help.tpl is available as a global or per patient help and is used in the same way normal templates are used except, there is no disposal action available. What this means is that one can markup the help and brand to their needs. Also possible to send individualized help to individual patients that may explain particular forms or form category(coming soon, categories of forms). …

Best- Harley

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