Plan an Awesome Holiday Party with Confluence and Team Calendars

There are two groups of people when it comes to throwing an awesome holiday office party. I know you're thinking it's those that drink too much egg nog and those that don't - but it's a little deeper than that. There's one group that plans the party and one that attends it. The latter group has the easy job; they just need to show up and drink a socially acceptable amount of egg nog. But the planning group has to do all the hard work and it can be extremely difficult unless you have the tools to

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There’s Something for Everyone in Confluence 4.1 – Coming Soon

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On December 7, 2011
Who doesn't like a big Christmas stocking packed with goodies? It's the season of giving and next week you'll be able to rip open Confluence 4.1 and get your paws on all the new features packed into this big release. Ryan already peeled back the covers on Image Effects – in this post I'll give you a sneak peek at 5 more improvements coming your way in Confluence 4.1. Like every Confluence release, there's something for everyone. 1. Use Any Character in Page Titles Satisfying many of your votes,

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Pimp Your Images – Available First in Confluence OnDemand

Confluence 4.1 is just around the corner and we've got heaps of new features we can't wait to show you. In the past we had to wait for a major product release like 4.1 to get new features into your hands. But with the power of our new SaaS platform, we're now able to bring you new features as they're ready. That's why Confluence OnDemand customers may have noticed a new feature, Image Effects, which we rolled out this morning. Introducing Image Effects for Confluence OnDemand The old adage,

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Atlassian OnDemand, Meet Gliffy

More Atlassian customers use Gliffy to make information visual and easier to understand than any other diagramming plugin. The Gliffy plugin for Atlassian OnDemand allows you to create great-looking, collaborative, web-based diagrams right on any JIRA issue or Confluence page. Gliffy's extensive shape library gives users a wide variety of industry-standard icons/graphics to strengthen the impact of their communications. Work smarter together. Integrating Atlassian OnDemand and Gliffy lets you: Create

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Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On November 29, 2011
Confluence 4.0 has been available for over two months now and we've been amazed at the uptake by new customers and the number of existing customers who have upgraded. We've gotten a number of questions from some existing customers who were surprised by Atlassian's decision to remove Wiki Markup in Confluence 4.0, so we wanted to take a brief moment to share with you some of the reasons. Collaboration Should Include Everyone Our perspective is that product development, and collaboration specifically,

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Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On November 28, 2011
This is a guest post by Brian Pugh of LucidChart, an online diagramming solution that makes diagramming fast and easy. In this post, Brian talks about the process of writing a Confluence plugin for LucidChart.   As you probably know, Confluence has a flexible plugin model that allows third parties to add new functionality and features. Typically, creating a Confluence plugin has involved adding new features in the plugin itself. However, as more companies are providing their software

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