The new version of Outlook Calendars for Confluence comes with a new UI and new features.
Why we’re relaunching Outlook Calendars for Confluence
For the past months, we realized that our current Outlook Calendars for Confluence app really isn’t an app that complies with our (development) standards. Although older versions of Outlook Calendars for Confluence do have valuable features, we strive to provide an app that makes calendaring more fun and particularly, more intuitive.
We attach great importance to our users' feedback. So, it was just time to start rethinking our app - to make it more user-friendly, provide more guidance within our product, make it more intuitive and especially even more applicable in our everyday working lives. Check out our use cases.
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 a calendar template is simply not clear for the user in the first place. Discover our features.
We further enhanced our existing features and developed new ones, too. Unfortunately, not all of the former features are available in the new version just yet - but they’re on our roadmap. Check out our page here to learn more about the current status.
New features overview
New UI
Choose a calendar template
New view naming (Outlook calendars)
Insert a current user’s calendar (Outlook)
Insert a current user’s calendar (Jira dates)
Permission management (Outlook calendars)
Permission management (Jira dates)
(Book resources)
Features which are not yet available
We’re happy with our new release of Outlook Calendars for Confluence, though not all of our features made the cut just yet. Based on our own usage behavior, our user feedback and most of all, based on the fact to better focus on the above mentioned (more advanced) features, we needed to postpone some of our features for our next releases in Q2!
📢 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.
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 our features which are not yet available in the new cloud version:
Outlook Calendars for Confluence app: new version vs. old version | ||
|---|---|---|
Features | New version | Old version |
Add (Outlook) group calendars | COMING SOON | ✅ |
Show Jira sprints as events | COMING SOON | ✅ |
Take over Outlook category colors | COMING SOON | ✅ |
Add Microsoft Teams Calendars | COMING SOON | ❌ |
See resources in your calendar view | side-by-side-view | ✅ |
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, however, will only be available in English. Would that influence the way you work with our app?
📬 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 (mainly) working with the “new” group calendars function?
We’re happy to hear your thoughts: Contact us!