Installation Steps

Owned by Hua Soon SIM [Akeles]
Last updated: Dec 12, 2017 by Stella
2 min read

There are 2 ways of installing depending whether your Confluence server has a direct connection to the Internet

With Internet Connection

  1. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
  2. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
  3. On the left sidebar, click on Find New Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
  4. Enter Hinch in the textbox labelled with Search the Marketplace
  5. Click on the blue Install button to install the plugin
  6. Wait for the installation process to complete and click on the Close button
  7. Click on the Manage button to proceed with the configuration

Without Internet Connection

  1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the Atlassian Marketplace
  2. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
  3. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
  4. On the left sidebar, click on Manage Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
  5. Click on the Upload Plugin link to bring up the Upload Plugin dialog box
  6. Click on the Browse button and select the jar file (e.g. HinchPanels-1.0.jar ) that you have downloaded previously 
  7. Click on the Upload button to upload the plugin
  8. Click on the Close button to acknowledge

 

Configuration

A license key is required for the plugin to work. 

To get the license key

  1. Go to License Request on our Service Desk
  2. Fill in the required information and click on the Submit button
  3. The license key will be emailed to the given email address

To update the license key to the Confluence server

  1. Log in as an user with Confluence Administrator role
  2. Go to Confluence Administration Console by clicking on the Browse -> Confluence Admin in the top menu bar
  3. On the left sidebar, click on Manage Add-ons link under the Add-ons section
  4. Search for the HinchPanels under the User-installed Plugins
  5. Click on it once to expand the details
  6. Click on the Configure button to go to Hinch Panels Plugin Admin page
     
  7. Fill in the details and click on the Submit button