Today we released the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence and Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.3. This update addresses various bug fixes and improvements.

As per user request, we’ve reintegrated the Document Manager back into the Confluence Plugin. This will allow customers to copy certain portions of diagrams into other diagrams.

We also put the Print feature back in. This allows you to Print directly from the editor, not just to PDF.

Below is a complete list of fixes and improvements:

Bug

• [GLIFFY-2213] – ERD connectors are rendered incorrectly in the editor
• [GLIFFY-2218] – Ellipse or Circle in Classic Basic Shapes drop shadow gets cut off
• [GLIFFY-2329] – Grouping not being remembered across saves
• [GLIFFY-2367] – Some Shapes have a shape boundary, while others don't
• [GLIFFY-2374] – Control characters are getting into the Gliffy XML
• [GLIFFY-2375] – Hyperlinks are not aligned with text
• [GLIFFY-2496] – BPMN Group Symbol should be sent to back when dropped
• [GLIFFY-2435] – Drop shadow of Round, Classic shapes are flat at the bottom.
• [GLIFFY-2439] – Line of the Annotation BPMN shape does not show in SVG Export
• [GLIFFY-2449] – Print to PDF 1 page results in multipage Document
• [GLIFFY-2451] – Flash Error When Double-clicking 'new document'
• [GLIFFY-2498] – Text on Line is Not Centered (When Curved Line is Made Straight)
• [GLIFFY-2558] – Adjusting Line Text Font size doesn't always re-center/format text
• [GLIFFY-2564] – Installation Success but ERROR on configuration
• [GLIFFY-2567] – Copy and paste a line with a long line of text, copied line initially looks wrapped.
• [GLIFFY-1900] – Text area looses focus when it shouldn't

Improvement

• [GLIFFY-2534] – Re-integrate the Document Manager back into Confluence
• [GLIFFY-802] – Create a Shortcut for editing text for objects
• [GLIFFY-2469] – Text Tool Defaults in Flowchart Template Result in "White"/Invisislbe Text
• [GLIFFY-2465] – Need Higher Quality Print/Export, specifically line or text based vs. a graphic image

New Feature

• [GLIFFY-565] – Access Tools via Keyboard Shortcuts (Arrow, Hand tool, Line Tool, Connector, Text Tool)

Download the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0.3

Download the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.3

Today we released the 3.0.2 version of the Gliffy Plugins for Confluence and JIRA. This release was to fix an issue where certain installations were not allowing some of our symbol libraries (like Venn symbols) to be loaded.

GLIFFY-2421: Venn Diagram cannot be rendered

Download the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0.2

Download the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.2

Today we’re releasing the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0.1 and Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.1. The purpose of this release is to fix a few nagging bugs with the 3.0.0 version. Highlights of this release are:

• Printing (Exporting) to PDF - When you print a diagram, it now prints to PDF. This allows us better consistency of the printing output across Browsers, Operating Systems and Flash player versions. This feature is located in the file menu.
• Snap using the SHIFT key – Stretching or moving a shape will now snap in 5px increments. This in conjunction with the Drawing guides should help overall sizing and alignment in a diagram
• Templates open to the correct symbol library - When you open a template that uses a specific skin or style, the skin or style will open by default in the symbol library

For a complete list of features and bug fixes, follow the links below:

Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0.1
Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.1

The Atlassian Summit 2010 is here! It’s one of our favorite times of the year for many reasons, one being it means we’ve got a big release just for you. Introducing the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0 for Atlassian Confluence and the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0 for Atlassian JIRA. Version 3.0 includes exciting new features such as new symbols, templates, line tool improvements, and drawing guides.

New Symbols

Yes, it’s been a while since we’ve added new symbols, but we’ve made some vast upgrades in our architecture that will allow us to put out beautiful new symbols more often. The first batch includes Venn diagram shapes and Sitemap shapes. Venn diagrams are perfect for showing relationships between things:

The new Venn shapes

Want to show your CEO how your companies initiatives will be presented throughout the new website you are building? Use Gliffy’s hot new Site Map shapes to impress. Site-maps are an integral part of web-site design that shows how a site is accessed and organized:

The new Site Map shapes

Finally, we’ve also added new fresh skins for our Basic and Flowchart shapes that will add sparkle to your diagrams. You can still use our classic skins too, located via the dropdown under each respective tab on the left hand side of Gliffy.

The new Fresh skin for Flowchart shapes

Templates
By popular demand, we’re proud to introduce templates to the plugins. When you add a diagram to a Confluence page or JIRA issue, you are immediately given the option to create a type of diagram based from a template provided by us (i.e. flowchart, floor plan, UML, etc.), or a template from your existing design (Confluence only). You can also use a template that can be stored on your computer using our new Import/Export Gliffy XML feature. This is very useful if you want to take a diagram you did in Gliffy Online and use it in Confluence or JIRA. Note to Confluence users: we have removed the Document Manager since it’s purpose previously was for copying an existing diagram to create a new diagram. The Template Manager now does this in a more elegant fashion.

The Template Manager showing a UML template

Line Tool Improvements
We’ve also made some big improvements to our connector line tool. You can now add curved lines, quadratic bezier curves to be exact. Plus, we’ve added a new arrow type that can be accessed via the line ends property drop-down. You can also create lines that have a fill color and a border color. To do this, select a line, make the width of the line 3px or more (third selection on line width drop down or lower), and select a fill color. Viola! To change the border color, select a line color for that line.

Curved lines

Drawing Guides
Finally, we’ve added drawing guides. To turn the drawing guides on, click anywhere on the visible page and you will see a “drawing guides” checkbox under the document properties. Check it to turn the guides on. When you drag a shape on the visible page, guides will show for different alignments. A red line will show when a shape is aligned to the center of another shape, and a green line will show when an edge is aligned to the edge of another shape. The drawing guides have replaced snap-to-grid.

Aligning shapes by center

Aligning shapes by left edge

Chris put together this nice video to show you some of our new features in action:

New features in action in Confluence
To see a complete list of bug fixes and other improvements, click below:

• Gliffy Plugin for Confluence – 3.0
• Gliffy Plugin for JIRA – 3.0

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

• Confluence Plugin
• JIRA Plugin

The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0 works on Confluence 2.9 and above and the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA works on JIRA 3.13 and above.

If you have any suggestions or issues with Gliffy, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Gliffy Confluence Plugin 2.2.1 and Gliffy JIRA Plugin 2.2.1 contain two bugs fixes for issues reported by a small subset of customers:

• [GLIFFY-2123] – Installing a free license for confluence after setting up gliffy free trial gives invalid number of nodes error
• [GLIFFY-2125] – System error when creating a Gliffy diagram – When pressing “Create Diagram”

We suggest all customers upgrade to this release  (Confluence | JIRA) .

Today we’re releasing what is by far the most important Gliffy plugins for JIRA and Confluence that we’ve ever put out. This release is the culmination of nearly 6 months of work that we’ve put into improving the speed, performance, and quality of our drawing tool which is designed to make it easy to add Flowcharts, Class Diagrams, UI Diagrams, and other types of drawings to JIRA and Confluence. There are over 100 improvements, bug fixes and enhancements in the Gliffy Diagram Tool. How big is this release?

Release notes for:

- Gliffy Confluence Plugin 2.2.0

- Gliffy JIRA Plugin 2.2.0

Improvements in the Gliffy Editor

These improvements apply to both the JIRA and Confluence Plugins

Faster! – The Gliffy editor has been re-tooled to take advantage of Flash 9, which means it’s fast! This also means that you have to have Flash 9 on your computer for Gliffy to work, but our research suggests most people are using Flash 10 by now anyways, so this shouldn’t be a problem for most.

Line tool is WAY better – When re-arranging shapes that have lines connected to them, the lines do what you expect. Also, lines can optionally have rounded corners which makes them look much better.

Help and User Manual – Earlier this year we created a detailed user manual to help new users get started more quickly. Inside the product, we now also include a list of keyboard shortcuts to save you time.
Faster Zoom – The zoom feature has been re-written, and it’s incredibly fast.
Mouse Scroll Wheel – You can now scroll through your diagram using the mouse wheel, or hold down shift and use the mouse wheel to zoom in.
Right Click Menu Options – Right clicking will help make copying/pasting and some other operations faster
True WYSIWYG editing – Previously, diagrams in JIRA issues or Confluence pages sometimes looked different than they did in the Gliffy editor. This has been fixed, and you’ll get much better results than previously.
Tons of bug fixes – So many little issues have been fixed that it’s hard to list them all, but let’s just say many of those annoying issues you may have noticed before have been addressed.
Gliffy Confluence Plugin License Changes – We’re trying something new with our license keys. For organizations who already have developer,demonstration, non-profit, open source, or community licenses, you’ll be able to use Gliffy without obtaining an additional license key from us. We hope this will help save time for everyone. Let us know what you think!
Gliffy Confluence Plugin no border on diagrams by default – By popular request, we no longer add borders to diagrams by default in Confluence. We think this is a great idea, and makes diagrams look a lot better inside Confluence pages.
JIRA 4.1 Compatibility – JIRA 4.1 is due out shortly, and we’ve addressed several compatibility issues to ensure Gliffy works as intended.

Two minor bugs have been fixed with the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.3.

• [GLIFFY-1710] – System Error anytime we try to use the gliffy plugin
• [GLIFFY-1761] – Full Size link goes to page that just prints $globalHelper.renderConfluenceMacro($macro)

We suggest all customers upgrade to this release.

Today we are announcing that releases of the Gliffy Confluence Plugin and the Gliffy JIRA Plugin issued after March 31st, 2010 will require JDK 1.5 or better. The Gliffy JIRA Plugin version 2.2.0 and The Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.2.0 will likely be the last versions of our plugins that are JDK 1.4 compatible.

Our decision is based on the fact that the Sun EOSL date for JDK 1.4 was October 30th 2008, and Atlassian stopped supporting JDK 1.4 with the release of Confluence 2.9 and JIRA 4.0. Since Atlassian’s customers must now all switch away from JDK 1.4 anyways, we feel like it is reasonable to require JDK 1.5 as the minimum JDK version.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Gliffy support.

Today we released the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.2. This release includes nearly 20 bug fixes and improvements related to the Confluence integration. Download the latest version of the Gliffy Confluence Plugin here. Three major highlights of this release include:

• Confluence 3.1 compatibility – Atlassian hasn’t released Confluence 3.1 yet, but that hasn’t stopped us from making sure Gliffy works with this new version. If you’re planning on using Gliffy in Confluence 3.1, you need to upgrade to the Gliffy Confluence Plugin version 2.0.2 to ensure everything works smoothly.
• Improved workflow when adding diagrams – We’ve reduced the number of clicks by one when adding a new diagram through the ‘Add Diagram’ link.
• License Expiration Notifications – Administrators of your Confluence installation will now be notified when your Gliffy Confluence Plugin license has 30 days left before it expires. This should help ensure customers don’t get stuck unable to upgrade to a new version of Gliffy by accidentally letting their maintenance period slip by.

This will be our last Flash 7 compatible release -This will likely be our last release that includes a Gliffy Editor that works with Flash 7. Our next release will require that users are running Flash 9 or better. Buy adopting Flash 9, our users will see a significant performance improvement when using the Gliffy editor, and we’ll be able to take advantage of some new features in Flash 9 that will benefit everyone. We decided not to jump to Flash 10 since the most recent Flash Enterprise Penetration Statistics from Adobe suggest that Flash 10 is not widely deployed inside the Enterprise yet.

Detailed release notes for the Gliffy Confluence Plugin 2.0.2 are below:

• [GLIFFY-1360] – Editing diagrams not working anymore after updating to gliffy version 2.0.0
• [GLIFFY-1454] – The create diagram button text spills over the button on Firefox 3.0/3.5 on Mac
• [GLIFFY-1528] – Confluence 3.1 compatibility
• [GLIFFY-1612] – Document Manager does not show spaces in Confluence 3.1-m4 release
• [GLIFFY-1613] – Remove Pencil icon from Gliffy Plugin Admin link
• [GLIFFY-1614] – Creating diagram doesn’t work when confluence isn’t hosted at root context
• [GLIFFY-1660] – URL field is truncating/deleting characters
• [GLIFFY-1067] – Improve integration with Confluence
• [GLIFFY-1441] – Links truncated / limit at 100, previusly at least 117 allowed
• [GLIFFY-1521] – Change ‘Add Diagram’ link to show ‘Add Gliffy Diagram’
• [GLIFFY-1672] – Copying Confluence Pages causes user confusion when they then edit diagrams
• [GLIFFY-1415] – When there are only 5 days left in a plugin free trial, send an email to Administrators letting them know
• [GLIFFY-1416] – Automated emails from Confluence plugins to administrators
• [GLIFFY-1427] – Admin screen should report the number of Gliffy diagrams that exist in Confluence
• [GLIFFY-1339] – Let users know that the Gliffy Plugin Trial is about to expire in more locations
• [GLIFFY-1419] – i18n updates for 2.0.2 release
• [GLIFFY-1560] – Change references to http://www.gliffy.com/confluencePlugin to http://www.gliffy.com/confluence-plugin

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