Pipeline presence is a feature controlled via the Flagsmith tool and must be enabled for your Environment/Org to use it.

This feature displays circular avatar icons (with user initials) on the top-right in the global header bar of the Designer for all other users currently viewing the same pipeline. This helps you coordinate edits and avoid save conflicts.

When the feature flag is OFF (default), no user presence icons appear in the Designer.

When you open a pipeline in the Designer, the system sends periodic heartbeats to the server. In return, it receives a list of other users currently viewing the same pipeline. Those users appear as circular initials-based icons in the top-right area of the global header (between the bell icon and the user menu). When PIPELINE_PRESENCE is OFF for the Environment, or when no other users are viewing the pipeline, no icons appear.

Prerequisites

• PIPELINE_PRESENCE feature flag must be enabled for your Environment. Reach out to your CSM to enable the feature flag.

Known limitations

• This feature provides presence awareness only — it does not prevent concurrent edits or provide locking.

Key features

• Active vs. Idle ordering: User icons are displayed from most active to least active (idle). Idle users appear grayed out.

• Idle detection: A user is marked "idle" to other viewers within a few seconds of leaving the pipeline (switching browser tabs or windows).

• Pipeline tab switching: When you switch to a different pipeline tab, the previous pipeline's viewers disappear from the header and the new pipeline's viewers load.

• Maximum visible avatars: Up to 4 user avatars are displayed; additional users are represented by a count indicator.

• Automatic cleanup: If a user closes the browser tab or navigates away, their icon is removed. A TTL-based server-side cleanup handles cases where the explicit leave signal is missed (for example, browser crash).

Configurable Parameters (via Flagsmith)

The PIPELINE_PRESENCE_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL and PIPELINE_PRESENCE_IDLE_TIMEOUT properties control time between heartbeats and how long an avatar appears as idle (after the user leaves the pipeline) before it disappears from the header.