The web is currently flooded with solutions based around editing, sharing, and distributing text documents in blogs, wikis, or other content management systems. Unfortunately, most of the existing solutions don’t offer ways to quickly add visuals to these text documents. The new Gliffy API aims to change this situation by making it both simple and secure for third party application developers to add Gliffy drawing features to their existing web based software.

The Gliffy Wordpress Plugin

For example, we’ve created a Wordpress Plugin to make it easy to add great looking diagrams in a blog post with almost no effort at all. Building this integration took us only about a week to build because we’ve also developed both PHP and Java Client Libraries (and a Ruby library is coming soon) which make API implementations very fast.

Would you like to add diagramming capabilities to your web application? Take a look at the Gliffy API today!

Following on the heels of the UI improvements we applied to both our Confluence Plugin and JIRA Plugin, today we’re happy to announce that we’ve applied these significant UI improvements to our hosted platform, Gliffy Online.

Here’s a few highlights of the improved UI:

New Interface with New Network Symbols

Improved Document Manager

New Collaboration Dialog

For a full list of improvements in this release, please see our public issue tracker:

Today we’re releasing a minor update to both our Confluence Plugins and JIRA Plugins. Most notably, we’re taking advantage of the usability improvements that are now possible with Confluence 3. We continue to be committed to making improvements on our JIRA and Confluence plugins to make the addition of high-impact drawings easier for users.

For our Confluence customers, we strongly suggest that you upgrade to Confluence 3 and Gliffy 2.0.1 as you’ll enjoy significantly improved performance in both Gliffy and Confluence.

Gliffy Confluence Plugin Updates

Gliffy Macro Browser in Confluence

Macro Browser Support

We’ve added support for the Confluence Macro Browser which is included in Confluence 3.0. The Macro Browser makes it a lot easier to edit the {gliffy} macro parameters. To activate the Macro Browser, simply click the new Macro Browser icon (it looks like a scroll) in the Confluence Page editor screen.

Support for new Confluence Pricing Plans

Another announcement that came out of the Atlassian Summit was that Confluence now has new user pricing options. Atlassian has replaced the 50 user license with a 100 user license, and has added a 2000 user license level. We’ve updated our pricing and licensing system to take advantage of these new user sizes.

Other minor updates

• [GLIFFY-1096] – Diagram images reported to not render in Gliffy Plugin for Confluence under OpenJDK 6
• [GLIFFY-1129] – Description Notation Guide ist not actual
• [GLIFFY-1290] – User can create diagram attachment even if they don’t have ‘create attachments’ permission in a space
• [GLIFFY-1324] – Page Not Found Error when Click "Edit in Gliffy" from Attachments Page
• [GLIFFY-1350] – New network symbols are missing 1U and 2U rack server
• [GLIFFY-1063] – Create help template for confluence plugin admin
• [GLIFFY-1308] – Consider changing the scrollbars so that they don’t auto stretch/contract
• [GLIFFY-1346] – Swim Lane Rotation Causes Unwanted Edits to Text
• [GLIFFY-1318] – Localisation for Confluence plugin updates

Gliffy JIRA Plugin Updates

• [GLIFFY-1309] – Make sure when support expires, you can still add diagrams.
• [GLIFFY-1350] – New network symbols are missing 1U and 2U rack server
• [GLIFFY-1308] – Consider changing the scrollbars so that they don’t auto stretch/contract
• [GLIFFY-1346] – Swim Lane Rotation Causes Unwanted Edits to Text

Announcing the Winner of the Golden Gliffy June 2009 Contest!

Thanks to everyone who downloaded the latest versions of the Confluence plugin and the Gliffy JIRA Plugin.
Not only are you now reaping the benefits through our revised Network Symbols, you had a little fun along the way.

Josh Krupka, of Burris Logistics, found the Golden Gliffy, contacted Gliffy and was randomly selected using Random.org to win the $500.

Thanks to everyone for playing and congratulations to Josh for winning!

The contest may be over, but don’t hesitate to download the new Gliffy Confluence Plugin and the Gliffy JIRA Plugin – a 45-day free trial will increase your productivity by integrating the drawing tool to accompany your Atlassian products. Contact us for an extension to your free trial.