Start your new year off right with some new Confluence Whiteboard goodies!

Em Ditchfield
Atlassian Team
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January 23, 2025

Hello, Whiteboards Enthusiasts! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season. As we step into the new year, we're thrilled to introduce a bunch of new updates we’ve made over the last few months to Confluence Whiteboards. Dive in and explore what's new!

Miro Whiteboard Importer

Bring your Miro content to Confluence whiteboards and collaborate seamlessly with your team. Import your whiteboards from Miro into Confluence to unlock features like smart connectors, smart sections, real-time editing, and experience brainstorming and collaboration like never before. Plus, keep everything organized with your whiteboards conveniently stored alongside your other Confluence content. You can read more about how to export your Miro files here!

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Voting Improvements

We know we’ve already told you about voting, but wanted to share the great news that you can now run anonymous voting sessions and mark yourself as done to help make facilitation even easier!

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Whiteboard History

Ever accidentally deleted content or added things to your whiteboard you just didn’t need? We’ve been working on making our experience smoother by introducing a history feature that allows you to track changes and revert to up to 30 days worth of previous versions of your whiteboard.

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Sticky Note Authors

You’ll be able to identify who added each sticky note with our new author feature, making collaboration more transparent.

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Public Editable Links

We’re enhancing our public links capabilities and making it possible to edit them too, allowing external partners or clients to contribute without needing a Confluence account.

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Shapeable Lines and Moveable Line Labels

Customize your lines however you need (even making them curvy!) and move the label around to better represent relationships and data flow in your diagrams.

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We’ve also been looking at making even small experiences better for you all! Some of the improvements we’ve made over the last few months include:

  • stopping smart sections from actioning on page load

  • making section titled easily draggable

  • Enabled Confluence level shortcuts to be available on whiteboards when you’re not updating text

As well as…

Line Snapping Improvements

We now lines are super important and sometimes you just need a bit more flexibility so we:

  • Added snapping to the edge of a sticky note from inside

  • Enabled self-referring connections so you can now stand and end from the same element

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Snap to Background (holding down shift)

Enhance your design precision by snapping elements to the background grid when holding down the shift key.

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Import All Jira Issues

Easily import all your Jira issues (up to 1000 issues) into Confluence whiteboards with the simple check, making it simpler to work visually through your planning and prioritisation.

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Zoom Improvements

Experience sleeker zooming capabilities, allowing you to focus on the details or get an overview of your entire whiteboard effortlessly without cluttering your screen with more buttons.

 

 

 

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Vertical Text Alignment

Align your text vertically to better fit your design needs and improve the readability of your whiteboards.

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Some of these features are still waiting for their release tracks date for our bundled users, so if you don't quite have the capability yet check with your admin if you get bundled or continuous releases!

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements! Let us know any feedback.

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Amanda Barber
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January 24, 2025

Thanks for this update, @Em Ditchfield! Just a heads up that your first two images are broken. 

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Jena Slezak
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January 29, 2025

Thanks for the heads up @Amanda Barber ! Images should be fixed now 🙂

Andy Gladstone
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January 27, 2025

@Em Ditchfield power packed update! I'm excited about the note authors and shapeable lines - both of those enhancements will really improve my current (and future) Whiteboards!

I personally need to spend more time in Whiteboards. I default to creating pages for all of my content when I KNOW that Whiteboards are sometimes the better medium to work with for some of my projects and processes.

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James Rickards _Spark-Nel_
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January 27, 2025

Fantastic update! You've really addressed most the main issues / concerns with adopting the tool that I've heard from my people.  The one remaining concern was around grouping, and bulk re-sizing of shapes.

I have a concern around only having a 30-day history as this would not be accepted in government circles.  It would be great if in the next iteration of this feature we can flag specific versions as important so that they are not deleted. Perhaps let us "publish" a draft whiteboard and capture a long-term version at that point. Users will already be familiar with the concepts due to how pages work.

I think it's time for me to start promoting whiteboards again.

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Tim_Sullivan
Contributor
January 29, 2025

I'm happy to see continued progress on features to Whiteboards. In particular, the history feature will be good for me. I can work around the 30-day limit as I am most concerned with the last two weeks as we work through our sprints and how we use sticky notes to represent tasks.

I feel I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't chime in here about the hope for a Table feature sometime very soon. That would be the last addition that I can think of that would make Whiteboards as functional as Miro was for us.

Please consider adding Tables very soon!

Thanks.

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Jena Slezak
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January 29, 2025

@Tim_Sullivan I can confirm we are most definitely talking tables 🙂 stay tuned!

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Aristóteles Quintanar
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January 29, 2025

wooow ... looks like the development team hear for all the requests.

Thanks Atlassian!!!!

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Yatish Madhav
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January 29, 2025

Thanks @Em Ditchfield Looks amazing!!! I think with this we may move many users away form other white-boarding and diagramming tools ....

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Szymon Walkowski January 30, 2025

YES! :) Awesome! :) usability features over AI bonuses.

Love vertical text alignment, zoom improvements, snapping, customizable lines <3 usage will be much more friendly now, thank you!

 

Would love to have more control over fonts, sizes of arrows, group resize. But it is going very fine direciton, awesome work

Upasna Bassi January 31, 2025

Going to explore now that moving from Miro is becoming easier.

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