The new version of Outlook Calendars for Confluence comes with a new UI and new features. For Confluence Cloud this version is available since April 2021, for Confluence Server and Data Center it’s available since March 2022.
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The new UI now enables you to easily navigate through our product, quickly take action and insert the right calendar with most suitable default settings. We want to avoid situations of inserting and deleting calendars again and again, because calendar templates have been misunderstood in the first place. Discover our features.We further enhanced existing features and developed new ones. Unfortunately, not all of the previous features are available in the new version yet - but they’re on our roadmap. Check out our roadmap to learn more about the current status.
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🎯 New features overview
New UI and calendar templates
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While working on on the new release, we also decided to adapt our naming for our calendar layouts. It is clearer now to decide on the right layout when sharing calendar dates with your team. Have a look on what changed:
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List view | List view |
Calendar view | Agenda view |
available in calendar view | Resource view |
Timeline view | Scheduler view |
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Insert current user’s calendars: Outlook & Jira calendar
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Choose a “Current user’s calendar” template and enable team members to also see their own personal (Outlook) dates along with project-related data already shared when accessing the Confluence page.
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Even decide if, for example, the Jira tickets/issues for a specific user should be displayed based on their due date. This will make it easier for your team members to get a good overview of the most relevant and urgent Jira tickets to be worked on.
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Permission management: Outlook & Jira dates
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This is new! Whenever you insert a new Outlook calendar or Jira dates to your Confluence page or space, you can conveniently set respective calendar permissions.
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Manage and adapt the calendar view in “General settings”. We recommend to limit your view scope to today (if you want to book your meeting room at some point today) and turn on the “Split resource” view (side-by-side view).
Here you go!
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Feature upgrade
With the latest release, our new Outlook Calendars for Confluence Cloud app now provides all features as you already know from the old calendar version - and even more.
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📢 Please note:
Already embedded macro calendars won’t be effected by the change
The old macro is renamed into “Outlook Calendar (legacy)” (only available during transition process)
We strongly recommend to start using the new calendar macro (first choice in drop down)
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Since the relaunch, we prioritized developing features to match the old version:
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Outlook Calendars for Confluence app: new version vs. old version
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Features
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New version
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Old version
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Add (Outlook) group calendars
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Add Microsoft Teams Calendars
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Show Jira sprints as events
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See resources in your calendar view
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split resources-view
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Pre-configured mailboxes
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global calendars
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You want to be up-to-date on our feature developments? Watch our Roadmap! |
📢 Your feedback makes a difference!
As you might already know, our customers' feedback strongly influences our roadmap and decision-making process when it comes to the development of new features. This is why we’d love to hear your feedback on the following feature.
How intensively are you:
📂 using our app translation?
Our existing (old) app version is available for German and French, but translatable in any other language, if needed. The new app release will, for now, only be available in English, but still translatable in any other language (just like the previous one). Would that influence the way you work with our app? Do you rely on the translation option?
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We’re happy to hear your thoughts: Contact us! |