Flowchart.com Blog

Sticky option is here!

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:04:50 +0000

In your profile you can now setup defaults for

Fonts and Font Size
Zoom Level
Object Selection

Object Selection, let’s you select a object and continuously work with it until you either select a different object or change the select mode by clicking this button . After plenty of requests from the power users for this option, we’re happy to release it.

Here’s a short video of it. Make sure you view it in HD.

Feedback on the forums is welcome as always!

Creating better curves

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:53:11 +0000

Previously we had only 1 option “Smooth” which automatically created a smooth curve from the segmented line, users didn’t have many options to adjust the resulting Bézier curve. In the recent update, Segmented Lines have more smoothing options and better control.

Auto
Cubic
Quadratic

Once you draw a segmented line, adjust the smoothness by selecting the option “Smooth Type” in the object properties window.

Bye Bye Fisheye menu and more!

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:43:17 +0000

In today’s update we have two major features added and many bug fixes.

1) No more Fisheye menu in the editor.

2) Connect anywhere on simple and clipart objects. In the previous version when you connected a line/arrow/curve to an object you had to click on a default set of connector points or increase/decrease your connection points via the Simple Object properties, this had two downsides, 1) You couldn’t really connect to the object itself, you could only connect to the border of the object, this was not very intuitive. 2) It was confusing to have so many connection points.
We completely did away with connection points with “connect anywhere” feature, now you can snap to the object itself, not the border and can snap anywhere, no preset points.

We hope you find this useful. Feedback is always appreciated.

How to Record and Playback your Flowchart.

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:23:00 +0000

Flowchart.com has a Record & Playback feature, where you can record all the actions you perform when creating a Flowchart and save it for playback at any time. Say for example you are creating a process and want to clue in your peers of how you got to that process, you can record the creation of your flowchart and send them a playback link where they can either play it back frame by frame or play it back as a movie so they can understand your thought process and start collaborating via Flowchart.com realtime collaboration functionality to further enhance the process. Here is a short demo below.

New update with few UI additions.

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:55 +0000

We pushed a new update yesterday with many fixes, most notably the initial startup wizard to create/open charts pop up that you see when the editor loads, the new wizard is consistent through out the site.

Here’s a screenshot of the startup wizard.

How to Zoom your chart.

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:45:51 +0000

Here is a short demo of how you can Zoom your chart. You can pick a Zoom percent level or enter a arbitrary zoom percentage number in the drop down list.

Flowchart.com editor shortcut keys

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:19:11 +0000

When you are editing a flowchart in the Flowchart.com editor and want to use keyboard short cuts, press and hold the CTRL(Control) Key to display short cut menu. To hide the menu, Release the CTRL(control) Key. Here is a screenshot for your reference.

How to embed Flowchart.com charts in your website.

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:50:11 +0000

Here’s a nice post by socialtext.com on how to embed a flowchart.com chart in a wiki.
The post is here . Below is the embedded video, Flowchart.com usage is towards the end.

How to share a chart in Flowchart.com small demo.

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:03:43 +0000

Here’s a small demo of how to share a flowchart.

How to draw curves in Flowchart.com

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:45:48 +0000

Here’s a short demo about drawing curves in Flowchart.com. View in fullscreen.