What's New in Confluence Whiteboards: June Edition
Hey Whiteboards Friends!
It’s that time of month: we’ve had some fun updates over these last few weeks and wanted to share with you details of the improvements we’ve been making in Confluence whiteboards. As always - please give them a go and let us know any thoughts!
📸 Transparency in images
We have recently improved our images feature, allowing you to import transparent images (PNGs) in Confluence whiteboards. We know you’ve all been asking for this one to help in your diagram creation and layering your images. Happy diagramming!
👀 Full screen mode
We've added a new display option that pops you straight into fullscreen mode, making it easier to present existing content during your meetings. You can access this super easily from the three dot menu on the whiteboard.
💟 New sticker packs
We already had AWS stickers to help identify your shapes and capabilities on whiteboards, and we felt it was high time we supported the next two most popular architectural services in our sticker packs - Azure and GCP. Let us know if there are other sticker packs you’re interested in for future iterations!
Coming Soon
We’ve got a couple of features coming really soon and wanted you to know that they’re on their way!
🧰 Minimising the toolbar
While you all love the capabilities available in our toolbar, we’ve also heard from you that sometimes you wish it was just a bit smaller. To help you have even more space to add content to your whiteboard, we’re building out a user preference that allows you to make that toolbar shrink away when you don’t need it.
〰️ Dashed and dotted lines
Based on feedback we know that drawing connections between elements is important, but so is visualising that relationship. We are extending our styling beyond a simple solid line and added in both dashed and dotted lines so you can make those connections happen!
🧹 Alignment
We recently added the ability to tidy up your sticky notes, but we thought you might want even more ways to make your content neat, so we’re working on alignment options in pretty much any direction you want - Left, Middle, Right, Top, Centre and Bottom.
⚫️ Dot background
Sometimes you need something between a grid and a blank background - for all those users we’re adding the option to set your preference to have a dotted background!
⌨️ Shortcut refresh
We know we’ve added a lot of shortcuts recently and it can be hard to find the ones you need quickly. This refresh has simplified them into 5 buckets so you can locate the one you need easily:
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Tools
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Edit
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Text
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Navigate
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Advanced
Happy whiteboarding! Let us know any feedback on our latest capabilities!
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