Export Whiteboard to Print or PDF
Asked by Dominik M?ller:

Hello,

is there currently a way to export a Whiteboard Project to PDF or print it out?  


Answers:
author: Christina Ristevski
body: Hi [@Micheal Daley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4383385), Confluence whiteboards PM here! This is something we're keen to add to the product some time in the next couple of months.

comments: author: Anna Kochura
body: Hello [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391) , unfortunately the feedback chat doesn't work...But we also need the export feature for Whiteboards in Confluence :)


author: Jacob Odle
body: That is great [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391). I am also interested in being able to export whiteboards. Thank you!


author: mennekes-ms
body: We need this, too!


author: Yochai Maytal
body: We're also eager for that feature!


author: Ole.Blytt
body: Hi! The white board is really of little use if no opportunity to export. Please add! :)

At least opportunity to export to pdf or print in a proper format would resolve 99% of my needs.


author: Michel Valstar
body: Same here - I need to export an org chart for our funding round and the only option seems to be to take a screen shot or copy the whole thing into Miro, which is not something I want to do as I want to divest from Miro.


author: Vivian Goldinger
body: Very disappointing not having the opportunity to export the whiteboard.


author: Andreea Beciu
body: any updates on this feature? is almost renders it useless


author: Malene Vikkels?
body: [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391), does Atlassian have a public feature request on this, that one could vote and watch to become updated on the process of implementing this feature?


author: Yatish Madhav
body: +1 from me too


author: Joseph Ybarra
body: We need this!!


author: Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_
body: [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391) With GA announced are there any updates on this important feature? The Feedback option within Confluence is gone. Are there any other places to give feedback, especially on the new limitations?


author: Christina Ristevski
body: [@Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5182395) Thanks for the question! The team has been heads down focused on getting whiteboards to GA. However, we've heard a tonne of feedback on this feature. Our plan is to start looking into this over the coming weeks. We really appreciate your patience with us while we try to develop a great user experience for our customers ?


author: Christina Ristevski
body: [@Rebekka Heilmann _viadee_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5182395) you can leave feedback via the three dot menu in the top right hand corner of your whiteboard, just select **Give feedback**.


author: Sheri Atwood
body: We need this too. Even taking a screenshot makes it impossible to read because it does not render the text. Its useless without the ability to either share publically or export to embed in other places. This should be a feature ASAP especially if you are going to start charging.


author: Thomas L?schner
body: Dear [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391)

Any updates on the export of whiteboards so far? This would be a great feature as we really appreciate working with whiteboards in Confluence.


author: David Holman
body: Best solution: Move back to Miro where you probably started ?

This is another example of Atlassian ignoring the obvious and providing no suitable work around.

In Atlassian speak "working on it" means next to nothing. Case in point, the PM says "keen to add to the product some time in the next couple of months" and here we are four months later with no update.

My heart goes out to Christina and the whole Atlassian product org. Something is clearly broken.


author: Christina Ristevski
body: HI [@David Holman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5281374) [@Thomas L?schner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5215635) [@Sheri Atwood](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1975885) we're actively working on this feature! You should see it land in the product in the coming weeks. We really appreciate your patience with us as we work to further develop our tool ??


author: Ka Silveira
body: [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391) any news about export option? I need it and don't see here to use.


author: chillaiur
body: Every diagraming white boarding solution comes with a PDF export feature out of the box for over a decade. How this was missed is incredible and I was stupid enough to spend hours building a diagram that I now have to redo in miro.   

It would be helpful for the Product team at Atlassian to recognize that this was an obvious feature that would have been required for this to be successful, and it was a big oversight. I hope the product team learns from such a massive oversight.

Based on the historical speed at which features like this are implemented, I am guessing I can't cancel miro.  

:sigh:


author: Emily
body: Still waiting for this feature


author: Amanda Barber
body: Checking in on the status of this feature.


author: Christina Ristevski
body: Hey folks, we're still working on individual whiteboard exports - hopefully will land over the next month or so!


author: David Holman
body: ?


author: Ana Cristina Martins Nemes
body: Any news [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391)? It's been 7 months since the original question and the answer is still "no".

This is a feature that was supposed to exist since day zero, you shouldn't launch not even a beta version of a whiteboard product without the possibility to export to PDF or image.


author: Julia Eder
body: would also help if there was as option to generate a public link from the whiteboard


author: Stefan H?ltker
body: [@Christina Ristevski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3700391) this feature is the only reason we dont migrate from miro to confluence whiteboards.


author: Marcel Rossouw
body: Sadly there are many other reasons. Can't make small circles (limited to a certain size, cannot rotate text, cannot colour text within a shape and a couple of other limits currently). I'm having to redraw in Miro as we can't export out of confluence white board either :(


author: Jordan Yeomans
body: Any updates on this?


author: Christopher Law
body: Definitely need this feature if we're ever hoping to replace Miro as our main collaboration tool.


author: Dennis Hansen
body: We're very concerned about taking this feature into use without the option of exporting our work/documentation in the future. I hope this will be added shortly so we can take it in use.


author: Marcel Rossouw
body: Unfortunately basic formatting and functionality is non existent in comparison to something like Miro. It is great for basic white boarding, not great yet for more advanced features.


author: David Holman
body: With Miro and FigJam in the picture, it's really a pointless use of resources for Atlassian when they have so many other critical issues to address. There's next to zero hope of them catching up in this space.


author: Rooz Pirzadeh
body: At first I thought [@David Holman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5281374) was being unreasonable but I see that he was totally on-point, given all the date stamps in this thread ?

It sounds like I just made a flow chart that I Have to scrap now as well...


author: Emily Ditchfield
body: Hi [@Rooz Pirzadeh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5429152) ! As I mentioned below this feature is available. You can access it if you hit the three dot menu on your whiteboard - read more about it in our May release blog [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/Confluence-Whiteboards-updates-for-May/ba-p/2712350#M119). Let me know if you have any questions about the functionality.


author: Rooz Pirzadeh
body: Hi, I just looked and I still don't see it. I was trying to post a screenshot but the system won't let me.


author: Emily Ditchfield
body: Hi [@Rooz Pirzadeh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5429152), happy to help here! If you could send me a screenshot of what you're seeing at my email: [editchfield@atlassian.com](mailto:editchfield@atlassian.com) me and the team can help to troubleshoot!


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Dominik M?ller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5309180) welcome to the Atlassian Community!

This is currently not possible, you can only share the whiteboard via a copy link.

Don't hesitate to click the **Actions** (...) button and click on the **Give feedback** link to request this feature.

comments: author: Dominik M?ller
body: thank you for your fast Replay [@Dave Mathijs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2662590) ...

i will add the Feedback..


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Thanks to click the green 'Accept answer' button if it helped your question.


author: Micheal Daley
body: [@Dave Mathijs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2662590)   
Are there any plans to include this feature in any future release?


author: Dave Mathijs
body: [@Micheal Daley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4383385) No idea, I don't work for Atlassian and there's no indication of it on their Cloud roadmap.


author: Micheal Daley
body: I understand, thank you for the quick response.


author: Michel Valstar
body: Sharing a copy link is of no use if you want to share a page with a diagram in it externally. This really ought to be fixed, it's such a basic feature.


author: Emily Ditchfield
body: Hi [@Dominik M?ller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5309180)! This feature should now be available to you, you can read about some other features we've released/have coming soon [here.](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Whiteboards/Confluence-Whiteboards-updates-for-May/m-p/2712350#M119) Let us know if you have any feedback!

comments: author: Nic Johnson
body: ?


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Thanks to confirm [@Emily Ditchfield](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4257900) !


author: Mak Zinovev
body: I felt angry initially. But now I accept it. Possibly Atlassian reached a point where feedback re missing major feature will not result in implementing it.

They will still have a lot of paying customers and revenue stream because for most users it is not worth switching to another product.

And that's ok.


author: Mak Zinovev
body: I guess, soon enough we'll see another paid extension to solve this :)


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