Questions regarding data linking

Thanks for reaching out in the community. Those are some great questions and here are the answers:

1. If you want to unlink/reset the data you will need to delete the shape and recreate the shape or you can drag another row of data to the shape and click replace to show a different set of data to the assigned shape

2. Currently there is not a way of automating this and you will need to manually re-associate the shape. We are currently working on a process that will automate this. 

3. Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. I’ve also converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

• Feedback and Feature Requests

Thanks for using Lucidchart!

Thanks Andrew. I have added my feature requests to the feature request form.

Hi! Writing with good news - all three of these things are now possible.

1. To remove or un-link data from a shape, simply select that shape, open the Data tab of the Shape panel on the right, and click Remove all data from this source. 

2. The link between a shape and a row of data from your Google Sheet will be maintained even you make changes to the data source itself by adding another column. 
3. The “Auto” font size will cause text to automatically resize to fit completely with the shape. To make “auto” the default font size, prior to linking your data, simply deselect all objects on your canvas and then choose “Auto” from the font dropdown.

I hope this is helpful!

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