Get New Hires Productive on Day One
Onboarding new team members means gathering documents from five different places. Notis automatically creates an organized onboarding collection in Affinda with every document your new hire needs, organized by role.
Trigger
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Action
Create Collection
Tool to create a new collection. use after you have a valid workspace id and want to group documents by a specific extractor within that workspace.
Why this helps
New hires arrive and you're scrambling to gather employee handbooks, tax forms, IT setup documents, role-specific training materials, and access guides. Everything takes longer than it should, and you inevitably forget something important.
- Automatically organize all onboarding documents for new hires
- Customize collections by role and department
- Reduce onboarding setup time from hours to minutes
- Ensure no new hire is missing critical documents
- Create consistent onboarding regardless of who's hiring
- Get new team members productive on day one
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Affinda to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'When a new-hire issue is created in Linear with the team member's name and role, automatically create an onboarding collection in Affinda with documents for IT setup, HR policies, role-specific training, and company procedures.'
- 3Set the trigger to 'Issue Created' with a label filter for 'new-hire'.
- 4Choose your notification channel to alert your HR team.
- 5Test by creating a new-hire issue in Linear with a sample employee's name and role.
Questions about this workflow
What documents should be in an onboarding collection?
Employee handbook, tax forms (W-4, I-9), IT setup guide, role-specific training materials, company policies, access request forms, and emergency contact forms.
Can I customize collections by role?
Absolutely. Tell Notis: 'For engineers, include setup guides and access to code repositories. For sales, include CRM training and territory info.'
How do new hires access their onboarding documents?
Affinda can send a shareable link to the new hire, or you can print/email specific documents from the collection.
What happens if I need to add a document mid-onboarding?
You can add documents directly to the collection in Affinda anytime, or update the Linear issue to trigger Notis to add new documents automatically.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Affinda. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Affinda actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Batch Update Annotations
Tool to update multiple annotations in one request. use when you need to modify parsed values or other fields across many annotations at once.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Collection
Tool to create a new collection. use after you have a valid workspace id and want to group documents by a specific extractor within that workspace.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Create Document
Tool to upload a new document for parsing. use when you have the document file or a public url and need to extract structured data immediately.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Create Organization
Tool to create a new organization. use when you have a unique organization name and want to group resources under it.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
Create RESTHook Subscription
Tool to create a new resthook subscription. use after confirming your webhook endpoint is ready to receive document event notifications.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create Tag
Tool to create a new tag. use when you need to label documents in a specific workspace.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create Validation Result
Tool to create a validation result. use when recording validation outcomes for a document after parsing.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create Workspace
Tool to create a new workspace. use when you need to programmatically create a workspace container within an organization.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Linear and Affinda, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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