Increasingly more of the information and data your teams work with is moving into the cloud. This is not a bad thing – there are many advantages to cloud storage, when you are using an experienced, large and trusted provider.
With remote working on the rise worldwide, online replacements for analog tools like the whiteboard are increasingly needed. With the draw.io app for Confluence, your teams have an easy-to-use, collaborative online whiteboard, directly in Confluence, that can be used for agile brainstorming, story mapping, mockups, project planning and tracking, flowcharting, and more.
Confluence allows you to collaboratively edit the content of its pages: You and other Confluence users will see each others' changes in real-time as you edit the page.
The draw.io app in Confluence allows administrators to configure a wide range of options, from default palettes and shape/connector styles for consistency across teams, to custom libraries and custom templates.
As an administrator, you can customise draw.io in Confluence Cloud to make it easier and faster for your users to create diagrams following your company’s particular style by setting default colours, style palettes, and fonts. You can even make the draw.io interface fit your customised Confluence Cloud interface.
As an administrator, you can customise draw.io in Confluence Cloud to make it easier and faster for your users to create diagrams by making custom shape libraries, templates, and plugins available by default.
Whether you have added draw.io as part of a migration to Confluence Cloud, or are considering switching diagramming applications, there will be tools and features that you will be unfamiliar with. With our focus on data security, draw.io is engineered differently to other diagramming apps - you always have control of your diagram data.
We are pleased to announce that draw.io is the only secure diagramming application to meet Atlassian's new Cloud Fortified standard.
Companies want complete control over their content and data when using cloud platforms. Atlassian's secure-by-design Forge development platform enables and enforces isolation - with zero-egress apps like draw.io, none of your data ever leaves your Atlassian cloud environment.
There are two ways to display diagrams on Confluence Data Center and Server - either attach the diagram file to the page and use the draw.io diagram macro, or embed a diagram that is stored elsewhere using the Embed draw.io diagram macro. You can embed draw.io diagrams easily from the following locations:
We recently completed the migration of our reference implementation of our open source diagramming project draw.io from Google App Engine to Cloudflare. We see around 400,000 visits on an average working day, so migration across providers is not something we do lightly, there needs to be compelling technical reasons and clear messaging from the provider that the platform is evolving in the direction we want.
In line with Microsoft's end of life date of Internet Explorer 11, we will end support for IE 11 on 15th June 2022.
Teams use Confluence Cloud for many reasons - documentation, training, project management, development, business planning and more. All of these teams need to present information clearly and concisely - complex information is best presented visually in diagrams.
Steps in business processes and project documentation are easier to understand when visualised. As one of the most common families of diagrams, drawing flowcharts in Confluence lets you present complex information neatly and securely in your team and company knowledge base.
If you are looking for information on licensing draw.io for Confluence DC, there is another article for that.
draw.io is a unique security-first diagramming tool in that we provide the application platform, but your diagram data only lives in your computer memory while you are working on it. As you can store your diagrams on your preferred enterprise-level cloud storage platforms or on your local device, draw.io gives you control over your diagram data.
draw.io is a security-first diagramming app for Atlassian products. Diagram data only lives in your computer memory, or as an attachment to a Confluence page or Jira issue.
With the rising popularity of cloud collaboration, it is not surprising that some diagramming software providers are exiting the on-premises market. You don't have to worry about that with draw.io.
You can now migrate from draw.io for Confluence Data Center to the Zero Egress draw.io app for Atlassian's Confluence Cloud. The Zero Egress draw.io app is fully client-side and Forge-only. This enforces data residency and isolation - there is no external data egress. Diagram data is stored within the Confluence page content on Atlassian's infrastructure and in the user's browser as they edit diagrams and pages in that Confluence Cloud instance.
Note: Do not use this migration process unless agreed with draw.io support.
The reference implementation of the draw.io project will be hosted at app.diagrams.net. Everything else remains the same - the online editor has all the functionality of the draw.io core editor.
You can use the built-in search features to look for draw.io diagrams in Confluence Cloud, as well as Confluence Server and Data Center. In the following examples, you can see a comparison of how Confluence finds draw.io and Gliffy diagrams.
It's becoming more common for companies to change tools and applications regularly. That means users need to be migrated and get used to using new tools quickly. Unfamiliar workflows and tool positions inside the editor can cause frustration. In this post, we'll explain some of the larger differences to help you make the switch from Gliffy to draw.io easier.
All teams have their own unique needs and particular workflows. Integrating useful collaboration tools seamlessly into that workflow is the key to your team's success. We offer security-first diagramming for teams working with Atlassian products.
Technical diagramming covers a lot of ground across many different professions and fields, not just IT and software development.
With PlantUML in draw.io using our web application (app.diagrams.net) you can quickly draw UML diagrams from a text description. When you input your PlantUML text, the diagram editor will automatically layout and arrange the diagram for you, based on your description and the style of output you select. It supports many different types of UML diagrams, as well as mindmaps, tree diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, Gantt charts, ER diagrams and more.