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2.0.0 release for both the Confluence and JIRA plugins

May 29, 2009 by Chris Kohlhardt

Updated Gliffy 2.0 Interface

Just in time for the Atlassian Summit (where we are a sponsor), today we are announcing a number of updates to our popular products, The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence and The Gliffy Plugin for JIRA. Among the updates are a redesigned, more professional looking user interface; improved application usability, default colors, and revision history; and improved and redesigned network symbols. Gliffy’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface combines the power of traditional desktop software with the lightweight, low learning curve and flexible features of today’s most popular browser-based applications. More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin.

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 2.0.0 also includes an important update to ensure compatibility with the upcoming Confluence 3.0 release.

The updated plugins are available immediately on their respective download pages:

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An example of the new Gliffy Network Symbols

In addition to the before mentioned updates, a few other minor issues were addressed:

  • [GLIFFY-120] – Fitting to screen and then resizing palettes and symbols, won’t let you fit to screen again
  • [GLIFFY-200] – Mousing over Flowchart shape in Palette at zoom ‘Fit to screen’ changes its line width
  • [GLIFFY-243] – line color ‘no fill’ does nothing
  • [GLIFFY-356] – Hard to see rotate widget/icon for shape
  • [GLIFFY-1281] – Whitespace should be trimmed from diagram names before they are created
  • [GLIFFY-1294] – Highlighted diagram name incorrectly indicates that Diagram is seleted
  • [GLIFFY-264] – Evaluate Changing Order of Buttons on Toolbar.
  • [GLIFFY-268] – Make Shape Overlay less beefy
  • [GLIFFY-274] – Revision History needs rethinking maybe
  • [GLIFFY-512] – Improved Interface
  • [GLIFFY-477] – Have a ‘help’ button where people expect it
  • [GLIFFY-1269] – Enable Lock / Unlock Shape function when multiple shapes are selected


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12 Responses to 2.0.0 release for both the Confluence and JIRA plugins

  1. Jonathan Nolen says:
    May 31, 2009 at 11:18 am

    Well done, guys! This looks great. I can’t wait to start using the new version at Atlassian.

    Cheers,
    Jonathan

  2. Wim Deblauwe says:
    June 2, 2009 at 3:38 am

    Hi,

    just installed it, looks very good.

    The fancy scrollbars do not convince me however, they slow me down looking for symbols.

    regards,

    Wim

  3. chrisk says:
    June 2, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Thanks for the feedback Wim. I think you’re right about the scrollbars, and we’ll consider addressing that.

    -chris

  4. Igor Minar says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    The UI improvements are huge. And the file navigator now also works with lots of wiki spaces.

    I still miss:
    * clipboard support that would allow my to copy&paste parts of the diagram between two browser tabs.
    * ability to flip (mirror) icons vertically and horizontally

    thanks,
    Igor (wikis.sun.com)

  5. Igor Minar says:
    June 17, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    oh yeah.. and the confluence integration is still pretty crude. Any plans to redo it in the balsamiq style?

  6. chrisk says:
    June 18, 2009 at 9:19 am

    HI Igor,

    Thanks for the comments. You are absolutely right, we need those features. We’ll try and get those in for the next release. We’ve tagged them for the 3.0 release.

    http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY-537
    http://jira.gliffy.com/browse/GLIFFY-823

    -chris

  7. StuartB says:
    June 19, 2009 at 4:57 am

    Hi guys,

    looks good, but after upgrading our confluence plugin installation it is now noticeably slower to load and display shape libraries than the old version

    Stuart

  8. chrisk says:
    June 19, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Hi Stuart,

    The performance issues are related to the fact that the improved shape libraries are more complex and the size is larger.

    We’ll be addressing these performance issues in Gliffy 3.0, so that we can have great looking symbols AND great performance.

  9. chrisk says:
    June 19, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Hi Igor,

    What are the specific improvements you’d like to see?

    -chris

  10. Igor Minar says:
    June 20, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    @chris
    - no extra step between creating a diagram and opening it in gliffy for initial edit
    - store rendered diagrams as attached images
    - store gliffy’s xml or whatever the source is, as an attachment
    - GLIFFY-537 + 823

    I’m sure that there is more.. :)

  11. chrisk says:
    June 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Thanks Igor. We’ll definitely take a look at GLIFFY-537 and GLIFFY-823 as a part of Gliffy 3.0, which is our next release.

    We’ll also look into addressing that extra step when creating a new Gliffy Diagram. I assume you are referring to the Confluence version for that issue?

    The XML is already stored as an attachment on JIRA issues and Confluence pages. For JIRA, the xml is inside the .gliffy archive. The .gliffy format is really just a .zip file, so you can extract the contents easily.

    thanks for your feedback!

    -chris

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