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Basic shape editing features missing

Jack

Would be really helpful of confluence whiteboards needs at least basic shape editing features:

- rotate shape

- flip shape horisontally or vertically

- edit shape vector nodes, e.g. to create or modify own shape or icon

- colour picker

- transparency

This will make the tool much more useful for everyday whiteboards and simple diagramming.

Comments

Em Ditchfield

Hey Jack,

Really appreciate the feedback here on the shape editing capabilities. Are any of those editing features particularly more important to you than others?

Jack

Hey Emily,

If you could add the ability to edit the nodes of a shape (see example), then that will solve most of the other problems, because then you can build any shape.

That is a big ask, but that would be my number 1.

If Whiteboards is to replace alternatives, then you do need to be able to draw good looking diagrams, and being able to work with vector objects will enable this. Some apps will refer to this a "vector pen tool".

Ideally add the whole list to your backlog and prioritise as you see fit. But please, do improve working with shapes in whiteboards. It will allow us to replace so many other tools and just use Whiteboards.

Jack

Hey Emily,

Transparency for SVG and PNG is also very high on the list. Then even if we can't change a shape in whiteboards, at least we can create it elsewhere and import it. However, currently transparency doesn't work, so shapes with uneven outlines (like almost all shapes) will have a rectangular white area around it that hides everything below it. I've raised this in a different post ;-)

Thanks for the help. It would be good if we can get an indication of when transparency will work. This is a pretty key requirement and probably a bug, rather than a feature request.

Cheers

wattro

Not being able to rotate shapes means I can't use confluence to meet my objectives.

Carl Weller_19r1c9

If we are going to have to wait for some of the more advanced features above, then please just give us rotate and colour picker. Surely that's not hard?

Another option that is blocking me at the moment, simply different types of triangles. I want right-angled triangles that I can use two of to create a continuum.

Carl Weller_19r1c9

Oh, and the ability to group objects. That would be most useful

Mogens Kjeldsen_94vl6p

The rotate feature is really missing for me too.

Constantin Chabirand_lfofq1

Following features are currently missing and means I won't be using Confluence Whiteboard for the time being:

Rotating shapes
Grouping shapes
Rotating a group

The look and feel of this tool are really good, I really want to use it, please add the above-mentioned features.

Really sad, since this has been under discussion for a long time it seems, and I could even see preliminary pictures of a drafted "rotate arrow" top right of a selected shape, but not available yet it seems.

Daniel Haupt

Agree. I'm really trying to use Atlassian Whiteboards as a alternative to Miro (because integration with JIRA is awesome), but unfortunately some very basic functionalities are missing which prevent me from fully using it:

- Rotate shapes
- Transparency on images
- Grouping of objects

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