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Download the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 3.0.2

Download the Gliffy Plugin for JIRA 3.0.2

• 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

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-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-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) .

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.

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.

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!

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

As always, we strive to ensure Gliffy is always ready to run on the most recent versions of Atlassian’s software. To keep our customers well supported, we got a jump on this announcement and released The Gliffy JIRA Plugin version 2.1.0 yesterday, which includes compatibility updates with JIRA 4.0. This new version of the Gliffy JIRA Plugin is required if you plan to upgrade to JIRA 4.0.

If you are an existing Gliffy JIRA Plugin customer, you’ll need to contact our support team to obtain a new license that matches the number of users you have in your JIRA 4.0 install.

Download the updated Gliffy JIRA Plugin to upgrade your existing installation, or start your 45 day free trial today!

Update October 8th, 2009: Yikes! We discovered a minor issue in the Gliffy JIRA Plugin 2.1.0 which caused the JIRA 4 Dashboard to have problems. We’ve made a quick fix, and have released the Gliffy JIRA Plugin version 2.1.1 which fixes this problem.