Add a line-end symbol directory in product

Hi @jerryhall 

Lucid Native capability not covering the comprehensive directory of line-end symbols and tooltips to explain their meanings, this observation is a valuable insight that secures consideration for future enhancements.

Kindly add this in the Idea section for further exploration and development.

Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
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Hi @jerryhall!

Appreciate the feedback! I just wanted to make sure you are aware that we do offer the ability to change line endings in both Lucidchart and Lucidspark. I’ve attached screenshots showing where those properties can be modified in each product. If there are any specific line endings that you’d like to see us add to our currently available options, we’d love to hear that feedback as well!

Have a great day.

I do see the line endings but, there are no indications of what each represent e.g. from various notation standards such as Crows Foot, Chen etc. A tooltip or a guide somewhere (easily locatable… another general challenge finding such stuff) would be great.

Thanks!  

That makes sense. You are correct that we don’t have anything like that available in the products currently. Thank you for the feedback! We can keep that in mind for our future roadmap.

 Hi, thanks for the feedback! I’ve converted this post into an 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:

It could even just be a quick reference document that you post to your site. Nice to have it integrated into the tool, but quick reference guide works.

Hi ​@Timothy.Potter8, thanks for adding your feedback to this thread and additional detail on what you’d like to see in this experience! Our product team will continue to review feedback within this space as they research new features and product enhancements. 

If you’d like to read through the documentation we do have available on lines, I recommend checking out these Help Center article:

• Add and style lines in Lucidchart. 
• Create an Entity Relationship Diagram in Lucidchart - this resource explains ERD cardinalities, describing how the line connection symbols used in ERD diagrams

If you have additional feedback on our Help Center articles, we’d love to hear from you in this form!

Thank you again for taking the time to add your feedback to this thread! I certainly understand why this is important. 

Hi, ​@Ambar D ,

To clarify the need for explanations for items, I am using LucidChart in my college classes. Currently I have students create their ERDs in LucidChart.  Since they are new to the  product, tool tips or context-based cheat sheets would be beneficial. For example, I understand the first three line shapes, but what is the contextual meaning for the two-way line? In an ERD would that allow you to label each relationship direction? Is it standard behavior in any of the ERD notations? Neither article you provided in the previous message explains anything about the line shapes other than providing their name.

Endpoints will mean different things in different notation methods, so notation-based explanations would be helpful. You cover several of the ERD notation methodologies fairly well, but not all of them. It would be nice if there was a set of notation style guides, where each guide focused on the appropriate shapes, lines, and endpoints for the particular notation. Then put them somewhere it is very easy to find. Personally, I would put it out there on the main site as a selling point for the product, similar to the ERD diagramming article (which was how I found LucidChart in the first place).

My next curriculum development project will be project management and LucidChart will come in to play again. Cheat sheets and guides are great for shortening the learning curve for any  individual who is new to a product, not just students. The quicker I can get up and running, the faster I can get the curriculum ready for delivery to my students. Sometimes, we just don’t have time to wade through the documentation to find what we need because we need to have things done yesterday.😟

Still learning, daily.😶  Thanks for a great product!

T Blankenbeckler
Community College Assistant Professor

Ambar, I looked at the 2 links you provided and the first one does not explain the meaning of the line endings, it just tells you how to select them. The 2nd one does explain the meaning of the line endings for just a small subset of line endings used in ERDs. That is exactly what is needed, just for all line endings. I’ve searched around the internet to try to find out what some of your line endings mean and can’t find them. It is very difficult to do a search of a shape without knowing what the line ending type is called.

Hi ​@tblankenbeck and ​@Timothy.Potter8, 

Thank you for this additional context. I certainly understand that the current articles on lines and line endpoints are not extensive in providing explanations on the meanings of the various endpoints in different contexts. 

I apologize for the frustration here, and I am sharing this feedback internally with our teams! I can understand how further documentation, and more in-product explanations/guides, would be helpful.