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March 20, 2024
Idea

Ability to add all tables when importing ERD

Related products:Lucidchart
  • March 20, 2024
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If you have 100+ tables and import them to lucidchart it is time consuming to drag and drop every single table. 

Suggest that an “import all” function is implemented.

Pinned Reply By Addie

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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Addie
March 20, 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:

 

Addie
April 12, 2024

Fully support the idea. I just add the comment I already added to another community conversation:

I import (postgres) database information via .csv file to let LucidChart create an Entity-Relationship-Diagram. The upload works fine and the .csv seems to be correct because I can see the different entity types from the database in the list of shapes afterwards. If I drag an uploaded shape to the canvas, the attributes and key/foreign key information look perfectly fine.

Yet, even in case of a small database with ~50 tables this means that I manually have to drag 50 shapes to the canvas. Individually! That’s not only cumbersome, I could easily skip one.

As said, it would be lovely to have everything on the canvas after upload immediately. And, if this is not possible: is there a way to select a set of shapes and drag them to the canvas in one shot?

March 13, 2025

We are implementing many new security requirements for 100’s of databases in a very short timeframe.  Our scope and many databases that are very large and complex this would be very helpful. One table at a time is very painful 🤣

Ambar D
Lucid community team
March 14, 2025

Hi ​@Kirk Evers, thank you for adding to this thread with your feedback. I can certainly understand why this would be beneficial to your work.