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
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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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The same works with current user’s Jira dates, for example Jira issues. Pick the calendar template “JQL issues”, set the respective filter “assignee = currentuser()” and any team member accessing the Confluence page will see their personal Jira issues. Either way, set calendar permissions, if required.
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Coming soon: A separate calendar template in our edit screen to avoid complex JQL filters. |
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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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This setting will simplify working with calendars in Confluence for your team. Team members - independently of their Microsoft 365 or Jira log-in - can still access and work with the calendar dates shared in Confluence.
With the new release, we now allow admins to share calendar dates to anonymous user. Meaning that even non-Confluence users can access shared data on the Confluence page.
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Sharing of Jira information is only available for Confluence Cloud. |
💡 Learn more about the configuration options for admins.
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Add Microsoft Teams calendars (and Outlook group calendars)
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Work with Microsoft Teams channel calendars: Create Microsoft-Teams-native calendars and add them to any Confluence page or space. We also allow for an editing of your Teams calendars, if needed. The same goes with your Outlook group calendars!
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💡 Learn more about the configuration options for admins.
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Book resources in Confluence
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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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📢 For our existing Cloud customers:
You can still use the existing macro with our Outlook Calendars for Confluence cloud app
Soon, you’ll be able to additionally use the new cloud app version (new UI, new features)
An upgrade guide will soon be available for you!
It’s our highest priority to ship everyone to the new version safely and conveniently. We’re here for you and happy to give you a helping hand whenever needed.
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Please provide us with your feedback if anything else you’re currently relying on in our current calendar app version will eventually be missing for now: Contact us. |
This is a brief overview about those features which are not yet available in the new cloud version. We’re almost there to provide an equality of features among the old and new version. See here:
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Outlook Calendars for Confluence app: new version vs. old 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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Take over Outlook category colors
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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 features.
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?
📬 using shared mailboxes?
Our existing (cloud) app version offers shared mailboxes in your Confluence calendars. Our new app release don’t, yet. How about your usage behavior concerning shared mailboxes? Are you already or mainly mainly working with the “new” group calendars function?
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📢 Upgrading on Confluence Cloud
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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📢 Upgrading on Confluence Server and Data Center
You’ll get a complete migration of your calendars to the new version without any legacy calendars. Downgrading to the old versio is possible without any lack of data.