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 JIRA Plugin 2.2.2 addresses an issue with JIRA 4.1:

• [GLIFFY-2168] – Cannot see the top bars in Gliffy in JIRA 4.1 on Firefox on Windows

We recommend all customers running JIRA 4.1 upgrade to this release  (Plugin Download) .

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.

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.

We just released a quick update to the Gliffy JIRA Plugin that includes translations of non-editor text into French and German.

As with our last Gliffy Confluence Plugin release, this will likely be the last release of the Gliffy JIRA Plugin that includes Flash 7 support. All future release of the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA will require Flash 9 or better on the client side.

Happy Drawing!

In our October 6th update to the Gliffy JIRA Plugin, we changed the way Base URL’s were calculated in Gliffy. These URL’s are important because they are used to launch the Gliffy editor, symbol libraries, and more. Unfortunately, this change caused some pretty nasty problems in some rare instances and users were having trouble launching Gliffy or seeing all the symbol libraries load.

We think we have these all fixed up now with this 2.1.2 release of the Gliffy JIRA Plugin, so download away!