Confluence Whiteboards updates for May!

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Hey all!

We wanted to share some updates for our newest capabilities in the Confluence whiteboards. We know that you’ve been asking for these, so we’re really excited to be sharing them with you. Please give them a go and let us know any thoughts! 

💬 Comments

We’ve now added in the ability to write comments on your whiteboards - tag your co-workers, have a discussion, leave them feedback on their boards! You can:

• Leave comments on the board or on specific content

• React or reply to comments already on the whiteboard

• Review all the comments on your whiteboard from the sidebar

⏬ Board Exports

We’ve also added the ability to export your whiteboards, you can access this from the right hand three dot menu. You have a couple of options when exporting:

• File type: PDF, PNG or JPG

• Export area: the full board or just your selected content

Coming Soon

We’ve got a few other exciting capabilities coming reeeaalllly soon so we thought we’d give you a sneak peak!

🔗 Viewable Public Links

In the next few weeks we’ll be releasing viewable public links for whiteboards, just like we did with pages last year! Public whiteboards allow you to easily share your content with third-party partners or clients for convenient viewing, without the need for them to register for a Confluence account. Visitors can access whiteboard content without signing in, and view real-time updates and activity on the whiteboards.

Viewable whiteboards public links will available on all Confluence paid plans, and will have the same granular controls as our public link functionality for pages that ensures content can be shared easily but securely. This includes:

1. Granular controls at site and space level

2. Centralized and extensive auditability of public content

3. Measures to help you share widely but only when you intend to

🖱️ Scrolling and Navigation Preferences

We’re adding the ability to select your preference with how you move around the whiteboard - using your Mouse or your Trackpad. 

We hope you enjoy using these new capabilities and as always, let us know if you've got any feedback on any of them! 

[Aristóteles Quintanar]

Wow, wow and super wow!!!!

[Yatish Madhav]

Beautiful!!! Love these updates ... looking forward to using them and the upcoming updates too!!! 

The export was really need as many have echoed before.

Thanks @Emily Ditchfield  and Confluence team!

[Yatish Madhav]

@Emily Ditchfield i picked up a small bug it seems. When exporting, it exports the grid too ... I did hide the grid and tried again, but it still exports with the grid? Please can you log this internally to fix OR have it added as option when exporting?

This is already a step in the right direction. Thank you again!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I'm happy to see the new export feature, especially the ability to export only selected content!

[Shawn Adams]

Create comment on the whiteboard with a 2 fingered tap (Mac). Not super obvious but useful.

[Theresa McFarlane]

Thanks for the updates!

[Eddy Lambert May]

Great and very valuable updates. The comments feature will greatly enhance to asynchronous collaboration. Public sharing is definitely a feature we need to try out and could be a game changer for bigger client or cross-organisational meetings and workshops, facilitating transparency and inclusion without the need for cumbersome and costly temporary access accounts.

[Kristy Russell]

Is the ability to add comments available yet? I haven't been able to do this as of yet.

[Amanda Barber]

Awesome! Love all these updates!

[Aaron Geister]

It keeps getting better and better!!! I am in love with it and not having to go out to another system make it wonderful.

[Jacqueline Eichberger]

i'm so exited :)

[Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_]

Great updates! Are there any plans on extending the public link with Edit/contribution permissions as well?

[Natasa Sebek]

Ensure that all whiteboard features are accessible to users with disabilities, including screen reader support. Not sure if that's already available, but it just crossed my mind.

[Allen Rosu]

Great additions and I'm glad to see Whiteboards coming along so quickly! Please add a way to Search within each Whiteboards. This is one of the items that would help with some of the larger Whiteboards we create!

[VKlint]

Looking good Atlassian and Confluence Team! Keep improving the tool, it's already showing value!

[Will]

Amazing. Love these updates.

[Rosivatz Kurt]

Any chance to see basic core whiteboard functionality like a freehand drawing tool added?

[Marek Pałyga]

Good job!! :) 

[Sanjay Samani]

Nice new features, but still feel that having the 3 active whiteboard limit per user be the same for the Free and Standard plans is a bit of a kick in the teeth for paying customers. I think having a 10 limit would be appropriate for the Standard plan.