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Users are also looking for the option for their 'group' to access all of these custom shapes (vs. having the upload them individually).

This feature is useful for API customers.

Dito! Voted and watching and waiting. Without custom shapes Gliffy is pretty useless to me. I can't build the complex diagrams I need to.

See GLIFFY-1353 which is similar, and might solve for a lot of the shapes needs....

I've voted for this and for 1353. As stated, 1353 will solve the problem for those with Visio diagrams, or the ability to create them (i.e. a software licence). However, this (issue 235) is a more general development that enables many other pictures to be incorporated. Perhaps we coiuld have another Library - My Imported shapes ?

Agree that this is a critical issue to deploy for those of us designing unique apps.

We're really looking for functionality to create and add our own libraries - specifically an engineering library with more detailed engineering diagrams. This is a core requirement of ours, and will possibly dictate whether we continue using Gliffy, or opt for a more standard solution (such as MS Visio).

I use both visio and gliffy. I prefer to use gliffy (because it is built in to the confluence system we use), but for serious stuff in ONLY use visio.

For one reason: stencils

Until gliffy can import visio stencils, it is essentially a toy.

A good, useful toy.

But not for the serious.

Hope this changes soon!!

In our most recent releases we introduced an under the hood update: Shapes2

The new Venn diagrams shapes and the sitemap shapes are examples of the Shapes2 framework.

Our Shapes2 framework had several design goals in mind:

• Make sure Shapes2 shapes could be ported to an HTML5 version of Gliffy
• Provide a simple system for creating shapes so that designers have maximum flexibility
• Ensure performance of Shapes2 shapes is as good as possible
• Provide the groundwork for user defined custom shapes

Right now, we have several tools that we are using to build our shapes in Gliffy, but we don't feel like these tools are good enough to share just yet. I promise you we are moving in the direction of providing users with a way to build their own shapes.

Here is how we think this will work.... we'd love to get feedback from you.

• Designers will build shapes in Adobe Illustrator and export shape assets in SVG format
• The SVG assets will then be copied into a special, not yet built, Gliffy tool that gives you a preview for what the shape looks like.
• Once an entire shape library is built up, you can submit the new shape library to our global shape library to share it with other users

The trick here is that some shapes can be really simple (for example the Venn shapes are only 1 asset each) and others are really complex (the sitemap shapes have 27 assets in each shape.... fortunately many of the assets are reused). Because of the complexities involved, we feel like providing a preview tool is absolutely critical to making it easy to put these things together.

Anyway, there is a quick update for you on where this is headed... again, we would love to hear any feedback you might have about this.

best,

Chris Kohlhardt
CEO, Gliffy

Chris,

Is the above avail in the gliffy plugin for confluence ? (that is what we use)

In the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence version 3, which was released last week at the Atlassian Summit the following new Shapes2 shapes were added:

• SiteMaps
• Venn Diagrams
• New Basic & Flow Chart shapes

-chris

When will Gliffy for Confluence support custom shape libraries that can be created by the user and then shared with others?

Hi Michael,

We don't have an ETA for this feature yet.

best,

-chris

At our company we have started recently to use the gliffy plug-in for Confluence. Is really cool for our needs, but if we could create our own shapes will be fantastic, for several reason.

Network configurations. We sell and develop server-client based application. Personalized shapes could help us to differentiated the server of our application from other servers in a network design. Also our host clients from other hosts.

Design new screen. We are continuing developing our application to add more screens useful for our customers. We have a very good defined set of UI elements in our application. So it will be could to include them in Gliffy in order to make proposal make our user simpler to explain us what they would like to see on there.

Even Marketing could use it if they could create "nice" shapes !!

http://support.gliffy.com/entries/241519-custom-settings-colors-fonts-borders