✨ What's new in whiteboards

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Hey everyone!

We wanted to share some exciting updates to the Confluence whiteboards experience. These updates are small but mighty, and are largely driven by user feedback (so by you!).

What we have shipped:

🖥️ Zoom to fit

In response to feedback regarding navigation challenges within our whiteboards, we've introduced two essential features: 'Zoom to Fit' and 'Zoom to Selection.' These tools make it easier to locate and engage with content.

👁️ Hide/show grid

We've introduced the ability to show or hide the grid. This provides the flexibility to curate displays, allowing for a more focused and distraction-free presentation of content.

🔎 Adding search into our template picker

In response to the growing variety of templates, we added a search bar to the template picker. Now you can easily locate the specific templates you need.

🔗 New link picker

We introduced the Confluence standardized link picker to the whiteboard's main toolbar. This addition allows you to search for specific Atlassian content and seamlessly integrate it onto the whiteboard.

🌈 Adding the whiteboard icon into smart links

Previously, Confluence whiteboards Smart Links featured the Confluence icon, making it hard to differentiate between a page. Now, whiteboards Smart Links incorporate the whiteboard icon, providing a more accurate representation of the link's source.

✏️ Retain text formatting

When pasting text with existing formatting, our system will now retain that formatting, significantly reducing the effort required to visualise your content.

🔒 Setting a max width when pasting text

In the past, when pasting a large paragraph of text into whiteboards, it would appear as an uninterrupted line. We've implemented a maximum width for text boxes, reducing the time and effort required to structure content.

🔨 The connector tool returns to the cursor

Previously, when inserting a connector, the connector tool would remain active, requiring an additional click on the cursor button to resume regular cursor functionality. Now, you can seamlessly transition to the cursor without the need for an extra click.

📦 Increased discoverability of our submenus

In response to feedback, we’ve added arrows to our main toolbar. This makes it easier to identify features equipped with submenus, thereby enhancing your navigation experience.

Again, thank you so much for all your feedback. Your feedback helps guide the future of the product so please keep it coming!

Thanks,

Eden Gorton, Confluence whiteboards Product Designer 👋

[Brecht Seys]

> Adding search...

Yess!! 🙌

>...into our template picker

Ohh.🙁

[Yatish Madhav]

I was so excited for this post too ... then I scrolled and scrolled and was also a lil disappointed like @Brecht Seys 

I am also really looking for more features like searching within the whiteboard text, exporting entire or sections to PNG/PDF/etc, more icons/stickers, customizing or more shapes, rotating elements, etc.

Looking forward to more :)

Thank you for this, though. Helpful for new comers like me :P

[Jamie Berry-Brennan]

These are all great updates thank you! We are also really excited for the link whiteboard feature on the jira side to go live, when will that happen / is their a ticket on the Atlassian backlog that visible for that feature?

[Matt Richards]

The biggest new change coming are the severe new limitations for Standard plan users. If this impacts you I hope you'll contribute your thoughts to my post below.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/Plan-Changes-Whiteboards-Crippled-for-Paying-Users/qaq-p/2604977?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kudos_question&utm_content=topic

[Dave Mathijs]

Thanks for sharing these updates @Eden Gorton !

[Laurie Sciutti]

👏🏻 Thank you!

[Marshall Walker Lee]

Huzzah for the link picker!

[Vronik]

I imagine that the functionalities will be expanded, is there somewhere where you can sign up or add suggestions that the rest of us can make?

[Malka Jackson [Isos Technology]]

Late to the party, but glad that updates are being made to the product.

[Daniel_Domene_Kolekti]

That's a fair amount of features shipped, congrats to the team! I'm really liking the zoom-to-fit feature, adding speed to presentations :) 

[Alexander Pappert]

I definitely need to test these new features

[Jacqueline Eichberger]

i love all these features. best for brainstorming :)

[Emmanuel_A]

great read

[Ciara TN]

Yes that show grid option will save my eyes a lot of work :D 

Love all of these though, good time savers.