Great news: The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is now available to Confluence Hosted customers, at no additional charge.

Through a development partnership, the benefits of the Gliffy Plugin will be available when using the hosted version of this award wining enterprise wiki. Why Confluence Hosted? It enables you to quickly edit your wiki from anywhere without dedicated IT resources. The Confluence Wiki gives you the following added benefits:

• Enterprise Security - with SSL
• Attractive, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface
• Monthly credit-card billing
• And dozens of other great features!

And now, with the Gliffy Plugin, you can add great looking drawings to that list! Gliffy enables you to create Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, and many more diagrams or simple drawings with just one click.

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is a secure and easy way to utilize the power of the Gliffy diagram editor to create professional looking diagrams within Confluence. Diagrams created with the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence are stored as attachments, allowing Confluence to manage the revision history.

Learn more about Confluence Hosted:

Gliffy now gives you the ability to create professional looking User Interface designs. We’ve upgraded many our current symbols and have added some new ones. The new and improved symbols include:

Forms and Components: Scrollbars, Window, Dialog, Listbox, Sliders, Combobox, Textbox, Button, Datepicker and Colorpicker.

Content: Area Box, Plain Box, Image, Street Map, Video Player, Progress Bar, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Column Charts.

Miscellaneous: Sticky Note, Notes Reference, Rules, and Arrows.

Note: You can set the state of the checkbox and radio button by selecting the symbol and using the “selected” dropdown located under the properties area on the right side of Gliffy.

Check out these example wireframes:

OTHER BUG FIXES

* Text description of symbols on palette was left justifying when multiline (Windows browsers)
* Overlay handles will turn off when dragging shape making it easier to align small shapes
* Fixed Save issue when a diagram has an uploaded image that has an apostrophe in the name
* Fixed Premature End of File error on transcoding

This is your chance to meet the people behind Gliffy. We will be on hand April 23-25 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Take a moment to introduce yourself to us; we will be sharing booth space 535 with Atlassian Software Systems.

We think this is a great opportunity to:

• explore the latest that Gliffy has to offer
• share with us what you’d like to see next with the program
• meet our talented team
• ask questions

If your team is considering Gliffy, stop by and test the program with us. We are confident you will be impressed.
As a thanks for saying hello, discount codes for purchase of new Gliffy Plugin for Confluence Licenses will be handed out at the booth (suggestion: other cool schwag available, get there early).

Chris Kohlhardt, the CEO & Founder, and Clint Dickson, VP of Engineering & Founder, will be available during the conference. This is a great time to get information about Gliffy from the founders. If you would like to make an appointment with us in advance, drop us a note. Mark your conference schedule for 2pm Wednesday the 23rd and 4pm Thursday the 24th for a mini-presentation in the booth by Chris.

We would be glad to see you at Web 2.0 Expo!

I’m getting hitched in May, and the planning activities are reaching a new high. Part of the challenge is being able to communicate to your vendors what the wedding site will look like, how things will be laid out, etc. For instance, our band would like to know where they need to set up during different parts of the wedding. Our photographer and videographer would like to know where certain things will be located, like the bride and grooms rooms. They also would like to get a sense for what the site will look like, indoors and out.

Well, Gliffy to the rescue! I was able to quickly draw and share the diagram below with my vendors to answer their questions. Click the thumbnail below to see the diagram.

New Flexibility: Gliffy now offers Organizational (multi-user) Accounts

Many businesses and academic groups have been looking for a way to use Gliffy Online on a group level. With the release of Organizational Accounts groups can set up, manage and purchase multi-user accounts based on the number of users. Organizational Accounts allow you to share all business diagrams without choosing the Share –> Collaborate option. Other highlights we are proud of include:

• Organizations can manage (add, delete, etc) multiple users in an account through the Account Administrator Role

• All diagrams are automatically shared amongst users in an Organizational Account

• All Uploaded Images are automatically shared amongst users in an Organizational Account
• Account Administrators can be added and removed by the Organization

Personal Account users will notice they now have the option to be part of an Organizational Account and their Personal Account. Users can easily switch between each account and set one to be their default account. In addition the following payment improvements have been made:

• Premium Accounts can be purchased directly, without going through the sign up process (benefits both Individual and Organizational users)
• Purchasing a Premium Account no longer goes through PayPal, and the process is streamlined

PC Magazine recently wrote an article about 157 of their favorite free software tools. Gliffy was ranked right up there with programs from companies such as Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Yahoo, Microsoft, and many others.

We are pleased to share the following features and fixes for Gliffy Premium users.

New Features: Network Symbols, Network Rack Symbols, Floorplan Symbols, Document Manager

New Features: New Network Symbols

We continue to increase our symbol libraries with the following new network symbols as requested by you:

• Webserver
• Database
• Satellite
• Satellite Antenna
• Copier
• Wall power outlet
• Game Console
• Flatscreen TV
• TV
• Stereo
• Speakers
• Subwoofer
• External Harddrive

New Features: New Network Rack Symbols

New Features: New Floorplan Symbols

• Wood Floor

• Telephone

• Modern L Shaped Desk - metal top

• Modern Rectangle Desk - metal top

New Features: Document Manager

The Document Manager has proved to be a big hit by increasing the ability to organize diagrams. Diagram tags will now show alphabetically when initially loaded (’All Diagrams’ will always be first).

New Fixes: Bug Fixes

Thank you to the users who have participated in our public issue tracking system. We feel our response time and depth in resolving issues continues to improve through this process. You will notice the following fixes to reported issues:

• Transcoding failure due to undefined symbol
• Image transcoding failure test case
• Logo shows up on exported image if collaborated user saves diagram
• Capitalize first letter on several command buttons throughout application.
• Suggest to display “Save” or “OK” or “Submit” buttons first, then followed by “Cancel” button.
• Capitalization issue in Publish mode
• Typo in Collaborate window
• All dynamic combo-boxes use the Laszlo datacombobox
• Various bytecode errors during transcoding

We encourage you to learn more about our public issue tracking system. Please login and review the current issues and add your vote!

As always, we look forward to hearing what you think of this latest upgrade and receiving feedback about what you would like to see next.

–Chris, Clint and the rest of the Gliffy Team

Today we’ve released what we expect will be the last in the 1.3.X series. 1.3.6 has focused on ensuring compatibility with the upcoming 2.8 release of Confluence, and addressing various other minor issues:

• Confluence 2.8 compatibility - Please note that we’ve made improvements to ensure compatibility with Confluence 2.8-m5-r2. When Confluence 2.8 final is available, we’ll verify our updates still work as expected.
• [GLIFFY-35] - HTML Export doesn’t include gliffy diagrams
• [GLIFFY-40] - Clicking "Save and Close" when Session times out causes diagram to be lost.
• [GLIFFY-430] - Gliffy Plugin for Confluence cannot be removed and then re-installed into Confluence without restarting servlet container
• [GLIFFY-455] - ‘Remove’ and ‘Full Size’ links break Builder Theme
• [GLIFFY-458] - ‘No’ link and ‘Click here to go back to your page.’ links on removediagram.action don’t handle base URL correctly
• [GLIFFY-454] - Don’t allow gliffy diagrams with ‘/’ in it

Climb Against the Odds marks the ninth major mountaineering expedition to support and raise awareness for the Breast Cancer Fund’s work to eliminate the environmental causes of the disease. In June, a team of 40 women and men – breast cancer survivors and supporters – will climb Mt. Shasta, 14,162-feet, in a collective effort to prevent breast cancer and a personal challenge to overcome the devastating experience of the disease.

Clint’s mom, a breast cancer survivor herself, is one of the climbers this year, and will be attempting two difficult things. One, is to summit Mt. Shasta. The other is to raise $10,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund in the form of donations. Gliffy, Inc. was proud to donate to the Breast Cancer Fund this year in support of her climb.

If you are interested in finding out more information or want to support the Breast Cancer Fund, please visit her Climb Against the Odds homepage here:

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=256952&supid=198557308

Go Hillie!

Here is the best way to move your Gliffy diagram from one page to another without having to reference another page:

With the diagram you’d like to move open:

1) Decide the items you’d like to move
2) Click on one shape you’d like to move, then hold shift key and select additional shapes to move
3) Then select copy
4) Open the file to paste the diagram into
5) Select Paste

If you’d like to move the entire diagram, at step 2, choose select all, copy. Then open the new file, select paste.

Certainly easier than packing boxes!

–The Gliffy Team