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Feature Request: Smart Table should create smart snapping points for each row

Related products:Lucidchart
  • December 30, 2022
  • 4 replies
  • 36 views

Victor A

Just what I wrote in the title.

 

When importing data as a smart table it would be great to be able to have lines snap to the center of any given "row" of the smart table shape. This would allow for linking between table rows/columns and other elements of the diagram with better precision even as the table changes shape and size.

February 27, 2025

Hi, thanks for the additional feedback! 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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Leianne C
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  • Lucid support team
  • 1523 replies
  • December 30, 2022

Hi @victor a thanks for posting in the community! We appreciate your feedback on how we can improve Smart Tables in Lucidchart! I passed your feature request to our product team for their consideration.

If you or anyone else would like to add your voice to the request the best way is by submitting your ideas to our feature request form? The more requests we receive the more likely this is to be prioritized by our Product Development team!

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


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  • 2 replies
  • February 25, 2025

Just came looking for this, with a 2 years on going doesn’t look like it will be soon available.

For your consideration already chose Lucid, from all major diagram platforms, as it was the one that made it possible and simpler so more efficient to work with Table oriented objects, which I found weird that it was so lacking in general, and unfortunately the 2 issues I have with it are just:

  1. Lines are snapped only to relative with or height of the whole table, not the rows or columns, and get misaligned whenever a row or column is added.
  2. Text inside a cell can’t be just clipped, and will always overlap others unless we expand cell size or re-arange text like muit-line, or just manually ellipse the text.

Kelsey Gaag
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  • Lucidite
  • 1128 replies
  • February 27, 2025

Hi, thanks for the additional feedback! 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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  • 1 reply
  • November 19, 2025

I came here looking for any kind of list-like thing with rows of text and line snap points. Use cases I can think of are visualizing packet flows through route tables, or linking to specific lines in a Code Block. Even if the lines need to be moved when a new row is inserted in the middle that would be better than the alternative right?