New Flexibility: Gliffy now offers Organizational (multi-user) Accounts

Many businesses and academic groups have been looking for a way to use Gliffy Online on a group level. With the release of Organizational Accounts groups can set up, manage and purchase multi-user accounts based on the number of users. Organizational Accounts allow you to share all business diagrams, like Organizational Charts, without choosing the Share –> Collaborate option. Other highlights we are proud of include:

• Organizations can manage (add, delete, etc) multiple users in an account through the Account Administrator Role

• All diagrams are automatically shared amongst users in an Organizational Account

• All Uploaded Images are automatically shared amongst users in an Organizational Account
• Account Administrators can be added and removed by the Organization

Personal Account users will notice they now have the option to be part of an Organizational Account and their Personal Account. Users can easily switch between each account and set one to be their default account. In addition the following payment improvements have been made:

• Premium Accounts can be purchased directly, without going through the sign up process (benefits both Individual and Organizational users)
• Purchasing a Premium Account no longer goes through PayPal, and the process is streamlined

We are happy to announce the release of The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 1.3.5. This is a significant bug fix release, and we encourage all customers to upgrade to this release. Download this release or upgrade using the repository client. As always, restart Confluence after you upgrade to complete the installation.

• Fixed issue where diagrams with certain characters failed to show up correctly in Document Manager
• When diagrams are stored as attachments to a page, we now set the size of the attachment
• Creating a diagram with name ‘ççççç’ fails
• Fix two image generation issues
• Fixed issue where long diagram names get cut off in the Gliffy editor
• Fixed issue where theme is lost for Builder plugin when visiting the ‘New Diagram’ page
• Fixed issue where File->Open Document manager failed sometimes when Anonymous users edit diagrams
• Fixed issue where blank text shape showed up in diagrams
• Default diagram settings not set correctly
• Make plugin compatible with Confluence 2.7
• Near infinite loop causes out of memory errors
• Support Personal Spaces within Document Manager
• Enable licensing option for folks who are using free Confluence personal license
• Add ‘Remove Diagram’ link next to ‘Edit Diagram’ and ‘Full Size’ diagram lnks
• Extractor shouldn’t warn that every attachment is not in the database

We’ve released a minor bugfix update of the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. Any customer who exports PDF’s of wiki pages from Confluence or has Anonymous users editing diagrams will want to upgrade to this release. You can download this updated plugin via the repository client, or on our download page. The updates in this release include:

• Fixed issue which caused diagrams saved by anonymous users to throw errors when they were edited.
• Fixed issue where diagrams in PDF exports of wiki pages containing diagrams with i18n names didn’t render correctly

Restart Confluence after installing any update to the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence to ensure you get back up and running quickly.

With this release we’ve added some new features that should make working with Gliffy a lot easier.

New Document Manager

The first new feature you’ll notice is an enhanced document manager. Since our service has been out for over a year now, users have had a chance to create many Gliffy diagrams like flow charts and network diagrams. Our most active users have literally hundreds of diagrams and the new document manager will make sorting through large numbers of documents much easier.

• The document manager now takes up more of the screen which enables us to provide more information to you than ever
• Diagrams can now be tagged to enable large numbers of documents to be managed and organized easier. Create a tag by entering a tag name under ‘Create new tag’, and then drag documents onto a tag to apply it. A document may have multiple tags applied to it.
• We now have a preview feature which will make finding that favorite diagram of yours faster without having to actually open up the document. When a diagram is clicked once in the diagram list, a preview of that diagram is shown making it easier to see what the document is before you open it.

Larger default diagram size by default

Previously, the default document size was meant to imitate a standard sized piece of paper. In reality, we’re not tied to paper as much in the wonderful internet enabled world. As a result, we’ve decided to break with tradition an enable a much larger drawing area by default (5000 X 5000 pixels)

We think this should make creating new drawings a lot more user friendly since you wont be constrained by a single page. You’ll also find that when you ‘publish’ or export a document, the resulting document is automatically sized to match the contents of the drawing. Slick, eh?

Other minor improvements

• Grid size changes when zooming
• Default Text Format. When making text style changes, they get remembered for faster diagram editing.
• Zooming using drop down should keep page positioned to center of view on page to make diagram navigation easier.
• Uploaded Animated GIFs should not break export/publish
• Performance using hand tool and scrollbars with large diagrams with the grid on is greatly improved.
• Various other minor bugs fixed for your drawing pleasure

Issues resolved:

• Improved performance of license checking code. Instead of counting the number of Confluence users which was costly in terms of time, we now compare the purchased Gliffy Plugin license against the purchanse Confluence license.
• Improved performance of Extractor indexing code. Since we only need a small portion of an attachment to check to see if it’s a Gliffy document, we only grab the first 400 characters where as we used to grab the entire document.
• Fixed minor typos

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed user license checking error GLFY-36

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed issue where diagrams appeared ’scrambled’ in some cases.

On Monday we updated Gliffy Online with a bunch of small bug fixes and other minor improvements. Check out the list below for more information.

New features

* Improved Image rendering performance
* Ability to “lock” a shape
* Easier to make horizontal and vertical lines with straight line tool
* More entity-relationship line types
* Prettier Server symbol in network shapes for
* New Mail Server symbol
* New Mainframe symbol
* New Database server symbol
* Prettier laptop symbol
* Prettier printer symbol
* Prettier hub symbol
* New stairs symbols in floorplan shapes for pretty floor plan diagrams
* Prettier door symbols
* Vertical Rule in user interface shapes for pretty user interface diagrams
* Displaying what revision is open
* Big Collaborate Diagram button under properties
* Published diagrams render faster

Bug Fixes

* Text format changes do not force save to diagram
* Snap to grid doesn’t work when dragging shape off of a symbol library
* Uploading super thin images
* Crooked connector lines
* Connector Line goes crooked out of center point on shapes

On Friday we released an update to The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. We strongly recommend that all current users upgrade to this release as it includes important performance and stability updates along with new features.

This update includes:

New Features

• Vastly improved diagram rendering performance
• Vastly improved plugin startup time
• Added document manager. Now you can open other diagrams in the system via thew new document manager. This will enable you to copy and paste between different documents.
• Ability to “lock” a shape
• Easier to make horizontal and vertical lines with straight line tool
• More entity-relationship line types
• Prettier Server symbol in network shapes
• New Mail Server symbol
• New Mainframe symbol
• New Database server symbol
• Prettier laptop symbol
• Prettier printer symbol
• Prettier hub symbol
• New stairs symbols in floorplan shapes
• Prettier door symbols
• Vertical Rule in user interface shapes.

Bugs fixed:

• Plugin loads MUCH faster
• Various Confluence Clustering issues resolved
• Text format changes do not force save to diagram GLFY-27
• Snap to grid doesn’t work when dragging shape off of a symbol library GLFY-24

Misc:

• Version 2 of EULA
• Cluster license verification

What’s the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence all about? Check out this two minute video for a quick overview:

New Features

• Changed Gliffy license page to “Gliffy Plugin Administration”
• Changed look & feel of Gliffy Plugin Admin page to match Confluence better
• In Gliffy Admin, you can now configure the Gliffy Editor to pop up in a new window. Useful for certain custom Confluence themes.
• Rolled in features and bug fixes from the Gliffy Online payment release. Includes new Gliffy L&F plus Entity relationship diagrams
• Free trial is now 45 days instead of 30. Users now get 14 days to take advantage of the 30% discount, and another 7 days after that for the 15% discount.
• show full name instead of username in revision history of diagrams

Bugs fixed:

• Opera/Gliffy no workie: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-22
• Conform to older servlet spec: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-21
• Problems with Japanese diagram names: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/brow
  se/GLFY-18
• Text edit doesn’t force save prompt: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-15
• Problems with revision history introduced in 1.1.0 : http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-19
• Removed incorrect warning about navigating away from page when user indicated
  they wanted to do so by clicking ‘Back to Confluence’ and not saving.