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Open, create and save diagrams

Open draw.io in Confluence

A depict.io diagram can exist created within any Confluence folio, provided you accept permission to edit the page.

draw.io can be inserted like any other macro, using the macro browser. Click the drib down carte du jour in the toolbar with the plus icon, then click on "draw.io diagram". If "draw.io diagram" is non directly in this menu, click on "Other macros" and enter "draw" in the search field at the peak right of the dialog.

You tin can also use the curly bracket shortcut: "{draw" (Windows: "Alt Shift" + "7", Mac: "Alt" + "8").

Template director

The template manager is displayed, correct afterward you lot placed the describe.io macro.

Click on the left menu item "draw.io Diagrams" then "Bare" to create a new, empty depict.io diagram.
Utilise "Search" to find existing diagrams to employ as a template.
draw.io includes many templates past default (east.g. flowcharts, mind maps, and more). You lot tin can find these in the various categories listed on the left.

Follow ane of this iii points and the describe.io Editor volition open.

Relieve a diagram

When the draw.io editor is closed using the "Save and Exit" or "Exit" buttons, the Confluence page is displayed.

The easiest way to save a diagram is using the "Salve and Leave" button at the top right corner.
draw.io automatically saves the state of a diagram. If you mistakenly click "Exit", yous can access and restore your changes when y'all insert a new diagram.

Click "File" > "Save" in the menu to salvage a diagram without exiting depict.io.

When you save a diagram for the commencement time, a filename for the diagram is generated.
In the current release, you tin can not change a diagram's filename within Confluence afterward it has been created.

After saving a diagram, information technology can exist edited at any time - click on the diagram, and and then click on "Edit" in the toolbar.

View mode

In view way, you can brandish a larger version of the diagram by clicking on it (zoom in, zoom out).

You can modify the display of the diagram when editing the Confluence page (size, border, etc.).
When you click on a diagram in edit fashion, a toolbar is displayed either above or below the diagram. SERVER Merely

The following options are available on this toolbar:

Change how the diagram is displayed inside the Confluence page (edge, toolbar, etc.)
Indistinguishable the diagram
Modify the displayed size within the folio (in the same mode every bit images in Confluence)
Remove the diagram

Navigation in the diagram editor

Yous already know how to create depict.io diagrams in Confluence.

In the next section, you will acquire how to employ the command panels and navigate within the depict.io editor.

The drawing area is in the center. Everything located here is visible in the diagram on the Confluence page afterward saving.
The two well-nigh of import navigation functions are moving the visible drawing area (panning or scrolling), and zooming in and out.

Use the mouse wheel or the scroll bars to scroll the drawing area vertically or horizontally.
Similarly, you tin click and agree the right mouse button and elevate the visible drawing area effectually.

You can zoom in and out using the magnifying glass icons on the toolbar.
Alternatively, press the "Alt" key and use the mouse wheel to zoom.
You can see the current zoom status in the toolbar.

The control panels are divided into three sections.

First is a horizontal toolbar to a higher place the drawing area.
The most of import tools and the principal menu are located in this height toolbar, as well as in the format panel on the right.
Which tools are available depends on the context. For case, different tools are displayed when you are working with text compared to when you are working with objects.

Similarly, the format panel contents alter depending on the context.
When you select an object, you tin can customize the display, the included text, or the arrangement and size in the format panel.
When zip is selected, the drawing area itself may be customized.
The symbol library is displayed on the left hand side of the drawing area, and contains a variety of shapes organized into categories.
Merely click on a shape from the symbol library, or click and elevate the shape into the diagram.
The shapes in the symbol library are categorized. Y'all can expand or collapse these categories as needed.

You can select multiple shapes by holding the "Shift" primal and selecting the shapes you want to use.

To delete all of the shapes y'all added from the symbol library. Hold the "Shift" central, select all of the shapes, then click on the trash icon in the toolbar.
Alternatively, instead of using the toolbar to delete the selected shapes, merely press the "Delete" or "Backspace" fundamental.

Place and edit shapes

Select and motility multiple objects

To move a single object, click on the object, concur the mouse button down and move the object to its new position.

To move multiple objects, select them with a frame as described below (or with the "Shift" key), and and so motility them to their new position. It is important that the mouse cursor is over one of the selected objects when you movement them.

When the objects are close to each other, you can select them by clicking, holding the mouse button downwardly, and 'cartoon' a frame around all of the objects.
It is important to start in an empty space in the drawing area, and ensure that the frame completely surrounds all of the objects you lot want to select.

If y'all want to change the color of all symbols and lines, select them equally higher up, then select the color you desire to use.

If y'all have made a mistake, you can undo your changes using the undo arrow in the toolbar at any time.

Duplicate

There are various means to duplicate an object:

- Using the carte: Edit > Copy, then Edit > Paste
- Using the bill of fare: Edit > Duplicate (you save a step)
- Keyboard shortcuts: "Ctrl" + "C" then "V" for copy + paste, or "Ctrl" + "D" for duplicate

Scale & rotate

To scale an object (brand it smaller or larger), y'all can just move any of the 8 bluish points on the object.

To proportionally resize an object, hold down the "Shift" primal as you move the points. Click hither to see how it works.

Click on the rotate symbol to rotate the object in the desired direction.
To more accurately calibration or rotate an object, employ the Shape Format panel on the right paw side when the object is selected.
Click on the "Accommodate" tab, then you can alter the size, position and bending of the selected object.

If you lot desire to change the elevation of a rectangle to match an before rectangle, copy the height value from the first rectangle to the current rectangle.
You can also rotate an object by changing its Angle or past using Flip.

Supplant objects

To replace an object, drag a shape from the symbol library onto the object you desire to change, until the "Replace" symbol is displayed.
To replace multiple objects, select them, then hold down the "Alt" primal and select the shape you want to utilise from the symbol library, or drag a shape onto ane of the selected objects.

Insert and edit text

Text in an object

You tin insert text directly in any object. Click on the object, then enter your text. The text and the object are always grouped together. For case, you don't have to select both the object and text individually before moving the object.
Similarly, you can add text to any connectedness. Double click on a connectedness and enter your text.
Y'all tin can as well add text anywhere in the cartoon area (outside of objects and connections).
Double click on an empty area, or select "Text" from the library.
Text inside of an object wraps automatically.
You can edit the text formatting using the "Text" tab on the format panel.

Text on connections

Text on connections tin wrap over multiple lines.
Y'all can besides add together multiple text labels on one line.
Move a text field by clicking on the yellow dot and dragging it to a new position.
You tin move any text field on a connection with this method.
When you desire to reposition a connection with its text, merely move the connection.
You can change the text size, font, colour, and more.

Free Texts

Text can besides exist placed completely free (without form or line) on the surface. To practise this, double-click on a free area or insert "text" from the library.

Connections and arrows

Connections from the object itself

If you hover the mouse cursor over an unselected object (without clicking), you will come across multiple small crosses (connection points), and four bluish arrows (connection arrows).

You need to exist careful non to hover over aselected object, because so, only the blue connection arrows are displayed.

A connection tin can exist created using one of the small crosses (connection points), or with one of the blue connection arrows.
When yous hover over a connexion point, it will exist highlighted light-green, so you lot know you lot are in the correct position.

Connections in the library

To insert a connector from the symbol library, click on the connection you want to apply., so elevate and drib it from the library into position on the drawing area.

You can and then connect the ends of the connectors to the connexion points on whatsoever of the objects inside your diagram.

Duplicate and connect objects

Click on the blue pointer at the lesser of an object to indistinguishable it and its content (shape, color, size), and automatically connect the duplicated object to the original.

If another object is nearby when you click on the blueish arrow, information technology will not duplicate the object, just instead link the two existing objects together.
By default, a connection with an pointer is used, but you can change this or delete the arrow in the "Fashion" tab of the format panel.

There are several ways to indistinguishable shapes and work with connectors.

Revision history, import & consign

Versions (revision history)

Changes to a diagram are straight saved in Confluence in the page history.
This includes the appointment and time of the modify, as well every bit the user who made the modify.
You can restore older versions of a diagram from the folio history.