Idea

Add read-only setting to prevent accidental changes while navigating/moving around a board

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Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 14, 2025
4 replies
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Quite often, I navigate through a dashboard that I can edit in general, while I just want to review a few things, and accidentally change something (drag-and-drop is the most often case). In such situations, I’m missing a way to quickly change into read-only mode. I change the …/edit in the URL to …/view, but it doesn’t feel consistent. A dedicated control that does this would be very appreciated (and probably easy to add). Thank you in advance.

Pinned Reply By Ambar D

Hi @maxM, thank you for this idea! This feedback is incredibly valuable and we’re committed to continually improving our products.

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:

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @maxM, thank you for this idea! This feedback is incredibly valuable and we’re committed to continually improving our products.

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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wjones

I’d like the diagram to default to view mode with the ability to copy/paste and follow links. A UI element could switch it to edit mode.

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @wjones thank you for adding to this thread with your additional feedback! Upvoting this post and adding a comment as you did are great ways to indicate support for this feature request.

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Something else I want to mention here in case it is helpful - For anyone who might be struggling with accidentally moving objects when navigating their document, one option is locking objects in place. There is no option currently to switch into/out of a read-only mode, but locking objects might help. To learn more about this option, I would recommend reading the Organize and arrange objects article from the Lucid Help Center.

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