The concept for Linchpin Touch supports large screens in quasi-public areas (for example: social rooms, entrance areas, factory floors). 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 the board user 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.
for news, events and similar content Examples: Daily updates
Contents for this area are usually specifically edited because there is not much room.
The sidebar on the right
for the bulk of the information you want to make available Examples: Access to older news and static contents, information from HR like job opportunities, image galleries, presentations from different departments, security information & your company vision
TIPThink 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
for a handful of pages that contain information that are most important for users of your touch device: Examples: What's for lunch, where to find meeting rooms & a bus timetable
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.