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Linchpin Pings

Create reminders which help users to complete their setup.



Welcome to Linchpin Pings!

This guide was created to help you with the setup of Linchpin Pings. See what can be configured and how you can do it.

For more information, be sure to view the Linchpin Pings documentation.


Installation & licensing

Please refer to Atlassian's installation instructions: 

Installation via the Universal Plugin Manager


Step-by-step instructions

  1. Log in to your Confluence instance as an administrator.

  2. Open the Confluence general administration.
    1. Click on the Find new apps link in the sidebar.
  3. Enter "Linchpin Intranet Suite" in the search field (marked by the text "Search the Marketplace"), then press Enter.
  4. Click on "Free trial" to test the app for 30 days, or click on "Buy now" if you want to purchase a license for Linchpin Intranet Suite.
  5. You'll be prompted to register for or log into MyAtlassian.
  6. Linchpin Intranet Suite will be automatically downloaded and installed after you log-in.


Linchpin Pings is part of the Linchpin Intranet Suite and can't be bought separately.


Create notices and reminders.

What are notices?


Notices are great reminders. A notice can be displayed once or regularly (for example on a daily basis). When a user visits the dashboard and a new notice is available, it will be displayed as a pop-up window.

Notices can display pure text or remind users to subscribe to news or fill out their profiles!






Create a notice


To create a notice, navigate to Confluence administration → Linchpin Suite → Pings Configuration.


Inside the text field, enter a name for your notice. This name won't be displayed for users.

Select the type of the notice: Subscriptions for News or Profile Assistant.

Click on the Create notice button.





Configure a notice


Within the notice configuration, enable the Active the notice slider button (green = active).

In the Display options section, enter the title and the text of your notice. 

In the Content configuration section, select the profile fields which should be available to edit (Profile Assistant) or enter the spaces to which the user can subscribe for news (Subscription for News).

If Profile Assistant is selected:

You can activate the Show notice even if all selected fields are already filled button to always show the notice as a reminder, no matter if the user has completed the setup of their profile or not.


In the Schedule section, you can decide how often the notice should be displayed.


Notice is shown regularly

Activate this box and the notice will be shown over and over again. Enter the number of days to set the regularity.


Notice is shown only once

Activate this box and the notice will only be shown once.


Validity period (optional)

Here you can set a start and expiration date for the notice. The notice will not be displayed before the start date. The notice will not be displayed after the expiration date.





Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/pings-firststeps

This page was last edited on 09/30/2021.