Idea

Adjusting Shape Size Based on Custom Data in Lucidchart

Related products:Lucidchart

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 1, 2022
5 replies
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Fred H

I often find myself trying to create product roadmaps that look like the below. Basically take a Gantt chart (ideally a SmartSheet but could be as simple as a spreadsheet with the right data columns) and "collapse" it into a single row of colored blocks.

I tried to play around with some of the shape libraries but was not able to find one that adjusted its size based on custom data. The closest I found was the Dynamic Shapes library but this did not:

Adjust its total size based on the custom data.
Allow for locking the end point of one shape to the start point of another shape.

Is this a use case that the Lucid team has come across before or has any ideas of where to start? Thanks!

Phillip W

Thanks for the reply Fred. We're always looking for ways to improve Lucidchart and your feedback is the best way for us to do that. I’ve gone ahead and converted this to an idea in our Product Feedback space so that you and others can upvote it and comment with any additional use case details.

As a growing company we take our feature requests very seriously. We are continuously looking for how we can make our product more useful and effective for our users and we pass that information directly to our product development team.

Thanks for your request and I apologize for any inconvenience this causes you.

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Phillip W
Lucid support team
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 2, 2022

Hi Fred

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community! It sounds to me like you could benefit from a few things that Lucid has to offer. One is templates. We actually offer quite a few Gantt style templates that would allow for long or short term projects.

The second is data linking. Data linking would allow you to pull all your data from MS Excel Google Sheets or CSV and place it within your Lucidchart Gantt diagram without having to go back and forth yourself. So you could data link within one of the Gantt Lucidchart Templates and then customize from there.

The last thing I think might help is to review the Lucid Help Desk article about smart tables. This would be if all else fails and you need to make the table on your own smart tables would be the easiest and cleanest way to do so.

I hope this helps!

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Fred H
Author
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 2, 2022

It doesn't. I've already reviewed these options.

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Phillip W
Lucid support team
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 3, 2022

Thanks for the reply Fred. We're always looking for ways to improve Lucidchart and your feedback is the best way for us to do that. I’ve gone ahead and converted this to an idea in our Product Feedback space so that you and others can upvote it and comment with any additional use case details.

As a growing company we take our feature requests very seriously. We are continuously looking for how we can make our product more useful and effective for our users and we pass that information directly to our product development team.

Thanks for your request and I apologize for any inconvenience this causes you.

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Micah
Lucid community team
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
May 6, 2024

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