Linchpin Touch
Your intranet on the bulletin board - easy to maintain, intuitive and up-to-date
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Preparatory Steps
Define a User for Linchpin Touch
The concept for Linchpin Touch supports large screens in quasi-public areas (social rooms, entrance areas, factory floors, etc.). The displayed information is taken directly from Confluence. Therefore, a user must be logged into the device, who has read-permission for the relevant spaces to be shown on the screen. To do this, we recommend you create a dedicated "board user" and not use one of the existing real users.
What contents are available on your touch device depends mainly on the reading permissions of your board user. Any page he has no reading permissions for, will not be displayed, even if there's a link to it somewhere. The board user doesn't need any editing permissions at all, and we recommend not giving him any, just in case.
Linchpin Touch is not intended to work for anonymous, non-logged-in users.
If you want to use personalization features, you'll need to create several board users that have different profile information. Read more about that in the respective section of this documentation.
Decide on contents for Linchpin Touch
The main area is meant for news, events and similar content: lots of change here, daily updates, with a quick glance you'll know what's going on in your company. Contents for this area are usually specifically edited because there is not much room.
The sidebar on the right is meant for the bulk of the information you want to make available. Access to older news and static contents, information from HR like job opportunities, image galleries, presentations from different departments, security information, your company vision, etc. Think of the sidebar as a two-tiered navigation menu through all the contents you want to be easily accessible from the boards. Pages you include in your sidebar can be from anywhere within your Confluence. You don't have to set up this information separately.
The footer at the bottom is meant for a handful of pages that contain information that are most important for users of your touch device: What's for lunch, where to find meeting rooms, a bus timetable, etc. Here too, you don't have to offer special pages if the contents you want to show already exist in your intranet.
Of course you don't have to stick to this plan - feel free to put your contents wherever they seem to be at the right place for your specific use case.