I'm not sure if this is technically possible, but an import/export to Visios format would be killer
We already have import from Visio, it's going into the next release.
Nice
What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
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Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#22I've clicked nearly everything and mashed the keyboard and haven't been able to create any image. I must be thick.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#23Export to some kind of vector format perhaps? I see it can already save to its own .xml representation, but something like .svg/.eps/.pdf would be great.
7th button from left on top toolbar is export. In the little window that appears offers the option of SVG export. PDF, yeah, working on that. Thing is, we want everything client-side and we have full PDF export in JavaScript except for images with alpha channels (which of course a lot of images have). But certainly PDF export will appear in next few months.
Oops, excellent! For some reason I was expecting it to be an option under "save" rather than a separate "export", so missed it. But yeah that's all I need; once it's in SVG, I can convert to other formats via inkscape if needed.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#24Ok...
In the company I used to work for we started using Atlassian Confluence for all our documentation purposes. Two plugins - Balsamiq Mockups and Gliffy really helped the adoption process of the whole ecosystem.
Your product looks nice, but here are two features that made Gliffy stand out (yes I am aware that the use case is different since one is a plug in and the other is a standalone product), references between diagrams - on one page you would lay out general architecture and comment on it, then on subpages you would work out the details. Gliffy allows the generated inline diagram to link to other pages/diagrams via generated imagemap. Another is UML support - yes UML sucks, but comes handy now and then.
And there is one more "feature" request that EVERYBODY working on this kind of tooling forgets about. When you draw a complex diagram, line connectors form spaghetti nightmare - its hard to see what goes where. So there would be two options - create loops where wire is passing over a wire (like in EC diagrams) or you could introduce nodes that would be used when wires are supposed to form a crossed node.
So my advice would be look into integrating this thing into some existing frameworks/extensible products.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#25I've clicked nearly everything and mashed the keyboard and haven't been able to create any image. I must be thick.
Did you try to select the shape and then click&drag to create it? I tried the same for some time. You have to drag the shape from the sidebar onto the work area. Could be improved probably...
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#26This is a very good app. Will you support multi-user editing too?
Yup, it's in development. You'll have a URL shown at the top of the screen that if you share with another user you'll both have each other's edits in real-time. That'll be out by end of March.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#27I've clicked nearly everything and mashed the keyboard and haven't been able to create any image. I must be thick.
Did you try to select the shape and then click&drag to create it? I tried the same for some time. You have to drag the shape from the sidebar onto the work area. Could be improved probably...
Yeah, I think a splash screen explaining the basic would solve 90% of issues like this.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#28if it had UML or database shapes that supported additional attributes that would be really nice. I would pay for something like that.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#29Where's the UML section? I need UML, I need flow diagrams, and I need to be able to link it to something like JIRA, Confluence or one of those types of products. If you can figure out a way to have whatever I produce hosted on an internal server so that I can link it to other software tools I'd love ya. Currently, when using Visio, we have to up load, down load, and then recommit any changes. It's slow, frustrating,…
I second the request for UML.
Apart from that, this app is really awesome. I also like how it automatically choses my language.
Re: What one thing does this app need for you to dump Visio for it?
#30Where's the UML section? I need UML, I need flow diagrams, and I need to be able to link it to something like JIRA, Confluence or one of those types of products. If you can figure out a way to have whatever I produce hosted on an internal server so that I can link it to other software tools I'd love ya. Currently, when using Visio, we have to up load, down load, and then recommit any changes. It's slow, frustrating,…
OK, UML stencils added to todo list, that shouldn't take long.
The app is just a div, could be placed anywhere, including a wiki. Certainly, worth a look, we give the Confluence folks a free license actually, not sure if they ever used it. Maybe you should give them a nudge :).