By You, for You: 3 New Features for the Linchpin Intranet Suite!

October has begun, which means new features for Linchpin are on the way!

Our developers have been working hard over the past few weeks to make the Linchpin Intranet Suite even more stable and useful, and most importantly, more customized to your needs.

We have set ourselves a clear focus. At the beginning of the year, we made it our task to initiate the topic of accessibility and to successively implement it as well as possible. In addition, we want to involve you, the Linchpin community, even more in the development. It's important to us that ideas and suggestions from the community regularly flow into the development of Linchpin and thus directly help shape the product.

Your wishes and suggestions are regularly reviewed by our development teams and checked for realizability. In the past few weeks, our developers have been working hard and have managed to implement some of the community's ideas directly into the new version of the Linchpin Intranet Suite.

You can look forward to the following three features that have found their way into the new Linchpin version in October thanks to the community:

People Directory - What's your name?

The People Directory is the place where you can search for and find experts in your company and reach them with just a few clicks on all platforms. Extensive filter options help you find the right people and bring them closer together.

Linchpin has long made it possible to filter the list by country, location, or language. For example, this can help you find people who work in your location and can help you with a foreign language.

The wish of the community was to be able to configure and use the fullName filter for the people list as well. We are fulfilling this request in the new version of Linchpin by adding the ability to filter the people list by your full names.

By You, for You: 5 New Features for the Linchpin Intranet Suite! - image showing the people directory configuration screen, where the full name filter is being selected

Who you gonna call? You can now filter ALL field types!

But that's not all: We are happy to announce that we can now offer you two additional field types as filters:

First, you now have the possibility to filter for entries in the IM field of profiles. With the instant messenger filter you can search and filter by the used messenger service, similar to the fullName filter. Secondly, there is a new phone filter that filters for validated phone numbers within people's profiles.

What does this mean in practice? You can now search for any sequence of digits within phone numbers. This is especially useful if you are looking for a specific area code or extension.

By You, for You: 5 New Features for the Linchpin Intranet Suite! - image showing two filters in action: a sequence of digits in phone numbers and an the IM field

Less is (sometimes) more

Admittedly, a picture is worth a thousand words - but if it takes up the same amount of space on your screen, it can quickly become confusing and lead to long loading times.

Unfortunately, this has often been the case with large images (~12MB) in Microblogs in the past. Rightly, you asked us for a solution, and obviously, we wanted to do something about it. That's why we've solved the problem with images that are too large by only loading the thumbnail image in the future.

This saves space and time and makes your timeline tidier again. And don't worry, clicking on the thumbnail will open the large version of your image as usual.

By You, for You: 5 New Features for the Linchpin Intranet Suite! - image showing the thumbnail being shown in a Microblog rather than the full-size imageMore accessibility for your Linchpin Intranet

In addition to the new features, our developers have also worked on making the Linchpin Intranet Suite even more user-friendly.

Notifications in Linchpin contain important information and keep you up to date on what's happening in your company. Previously, when these notifications contained links, they were shown in full. The problem: If the target page is renamed or moved, the link no longer works. So from now on, notifications will only contain permanent short links instead of full links, so your content will always be accessible.

Regarding the accessibility of events in Linchpin, we were able to further improve compatibility with screen readers - for example, the login icon in the app list is now screen reader compatible.

To give your colleagues a good impression of the content of your news already in the news portal, you can now add a preview image. And in case you don't have an image at hand, you can define a default image in the Administration settings. Additionally, until now it was not possible to add an ALT text in a language. This will be solved with the new version of Linchpin.

By You, for You: 5 New Features for the Linchpin Intranet Suite! - configuration window showing ALT text can be added to images

We are now making Linchpin usable for even more people with our latest release. And we'll continue to work on making Linchpin more accessible and barrier-free in the future.

We need you!

We're eager to hear your feedback on the new features and look forward to learning more about how you use the Linchpin Intranet Suite in your daily work. Do you have any wishes or ideas for your Linchpin intranet that would make your daily work easier? Or do you have any other feedback on the product that you would like to share with our developers?

Then be sure to check out our Canny board: https://linchpin.canny.io/! With Canny, you have the opportunity to actively participate in the development of Linchpin. Submit your wishes and ideas or comment and vote on already submitted suggestions that also sound useful to you.

We work transparently and keep you up to date on what we are currently working on, what is coming up next, and which completed features you can already look forward to in the next version.

Don't know Linchpin yet?

You can try Linchpin at any time, without any obligation, and free of charge at linchpin-intranet.com/test.

With Linchpin you can turn your Confluence Data Center and Server into a real Social Intranet. This gives you a fully personalized system that meets the individual needs of your company. If your colleagues work from different locations or even in different languages, multi-language support and extensive personalization options will help you communicate with your team regardless of their location.

With Linchpin, the knowledge management software Confluence is enhanced with a wide range of features, such as freely definable profile fields, a detailed directory of people, appealing news articles, modern events and much more! And best of all: All functions are also available on the go thanks to the mobile app.

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