Looking for a way to move your floor plan diagram? Here is the best way to move your Gliffy Online diagram from one document 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.
To move your Gliffy Plugin for Confluence or Gliffy Plugin for JIRA Diagram:
1) Create a destination diagram to move the copied shapes to.
2) Use File->Open in the Gliffy editor to open the diagram that has the original shapes
3) Use Edit->Select All, or click+shift each shape to move
4) Then click Edit-Copy, to copy the contents of the original diagram
5) Use File->Open to open the destination diagram
6) Use Edit->Paste to paste the contents into the destination diagram
Certainly easier than packing boxes!
–The Gliffy Team
Hi: I am total newbie at gliffy. But I tried the method outlined to move a gliffy diagram, but no luck. I have new (empty diagram) open in one window, and the old diagram in another. Did select all, copy in old diagram. Moved to new diagram and did paste – nothing shows up. If I paste in the old diagram, I get duplicate of the whole thing. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
gReG
Hi Greg,
Thanks for writing. This Forums Posting gives a bit more detail: http://www.gliffy.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1557&postcount=5
You’ll note that it is necessary to operate within the same browser tab vs. switching to another window.
Thanks for writing!
Copying a diagram is dependent on a certain level of Gliffy and our installation has no immediate plans to upgrade :(.
So, looking for alternatives to the nice and easy way about six months ago I managed to make a copy of a diagram by exporting it from one page to a file and attaching that file to another page. Trouble is I’ve been trying to do this again and am either not remembering something or something else is different now. The file I had done some time ago is of type .xml but when I try to Export from Gliffy now my only options are: .svg, .jpeg, and .png and none of these seem to work.
How did I manage to get an .xml file last year?
Ah, ha! I rediscovered how I did it last year! :)
(1) From the Attachments view of the original Wiki page: Right mouse click on the diagram and select Save Target As.
(2) Change the name and Save it as an XML Document.
(3) Go to the new Wiki page.
(4) Attach the diagram copy, filename.xml, to the new page.
(5) Edit the new page and add a simple Gliffy tag, such as:
{gliffy:name=filename.xml|align=left|size=L}
I have tried both:
solution 1 – copying using “Shift”
Solution 2 – which is actually a link to a page advising an upgrade to at least 1.3 (we use 1.5) and the note “You’ll note that it is necessary to operate within the same browser tab vs. switching to another window” doesnt make sence, because Gliffy always opens the diagram in a separate window
Solution 3 – “works” but is to much work for all my users
Could Gliffy Inc. please provide a solution to this problem.
Hello Thomas,
Thanks for your inquiry.
You’ll find the directions most suitable for copy/paste between Confluence Diagrams below:
1) Make sure you have created the destination diagram to move the copied shapes to.
2) Use File->Open in the Gliffy editor to open the diagram that has the original shapes
3) Use Edit->Select All, or click+shift each shape to move
4) Then click Edit-Copy, to copy the contents of the original diagram
5) Use File->Open to open the destination diagram
6) Use Edit->Paste to paste the contents into the destination diagram
Let us know if this solution meets your needs. Solution 2 reminds users to have only one confluence browser tab open vs. multiple. Solution 3 is for users that have not upgraded to the most recent version of Gliffy.
Thanks again!
Debi K
Gliffy
I had trouble, copying elements from one diagram to another. The trick with copy/paste is not to close the gliffy editor and then navigate within confluence to the destination page, but to use File -> Open… to choose the destination diagram.