---
title: Enable external customers to create requests
description: Enable your external customers to create and track requests from the Customer and Consumer Service Portals.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Setting up CSM integration with IT Service Management, Integrate with IT Service Management, Integrate, Customer Service Management]
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# Enable external customers to create requests

Enable your external customers to create and track requests from the Customer and Consumer Service Portals.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

Each submitted request generates a case, with the request record associated to that case. Customer service agents can also create requests on behalf of contacts and consumers.

**Note:** This feature requires activation of the Customer Service with Request Management plugin \(com.sn\_cs\_sm\_request\).

## Procedure

-   Configure the Case form to display the **Initiated as request** field.

    When a request is created from the portal, the system creates a case for the request and sets this field to true.

    **Note:** The **Initiated as request** field is read-only for all users.


**Related topics**  


[Create a request on behalf of a customer or consumer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/agent-create-request-for-customer.md)

[Request an item or service from the Customer Service Portal](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/customer-request-from-portal.md)