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, like Organizational Charts, 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 for your network diagrams:

• 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
These new network rack symbols will enhance the profession look of your Gliffy Network Documents:

New Features: New Floorplan Symbols
Drawings with Gliffy’s Floor Plan Software are even better with these new 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!