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Expand CSV Import shape libraries

Related products:Lucidchart
  • September 4, 2024
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Matt W104

We’re doing a process documentation exercise at the moment, and using BPMN 2.0 shapes. One thing we’ve got is a number of processes which are laid out in Excel templates, and which we want to convert and import into Lucid. 

Spent a few days trying to figure out why an exported CSV of shape data was not importing correctly, before finding out the import only accepts the Flowchart Shapes library, and defaults unrecognised BPMN 2.0 shapes as the Process object. 

From looking on here, it looks like this has been the case for the last five years or so: Process Diagram Import from CSV - Shapes Not Working | Community (lucid.co)

 

Two suggestions: 

  1. Support more of the shape libraries.
  2. Show a message when running into an unsupported shape/library. 

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Kelsey Gaag
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  • Lucid community team
  • 914 replies
  • September 4, 2024

Hi, thanks for this idea! We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

 


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