Move shape text box to different location around shape in Lucidchart

Hi Brad

Thank you for posting in the Lucid Community! Shapes with text do have limited interactions available at this time if you are looking to realign the text inside your shapes you can navigate to the Alignment option in the top tool bar to select different text alignment options. 

The workaround you mentioned with creating a separate text box and grouping it with a shape is the recommended workaround currently available.

While there is currently not an option to create text around the shapes borders we're always looking for ways to improve Lucidchart and your feedback is the best way for us to do that. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. I’ve also converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post.

I would love to have this capability as well because when I create network diagrams lines come in from all four directions, very often obscuring the text.  Being able to move it around the shape would allow me to make the text readable without having to resort to the workaround or do crazy line routing.

Is this still the case? Is a very useful feature in other diagram mapping tools...

Hi ​@JB76, thanks for adding to the thread! To clarify, are you hoping to move text around to different locations in a shape? Is there a specific shape you are having trouble with, or are you looking for this feature in general? 

Using the process shape as an example, you can use the alignment tool in the top tool bar to change the position of the text in the shape.

Alternatively, you can use the text options tool to adjust the right/left indent, spacing, etc. as you please. 

To learn more, I suggest reading through the Add and style text in Lucidchart article from the Help Center. Please let me know if you have any additional questions about this or if I’m misunderstanding what you are hoping to achieve! 

Within about 5 minutes of using LucidChart I came across this shortcoming. It is supported by almost every other diagramming tool.

I should be able to reposition labels under objects so that they don’t obscure e.g. arrows.

See below:

Hi ​@tomhoad, thank you for sharing this feedback and for providing that screenshot for reference. I can certainly understand why this is important to you! 

Our product teams are reviewing feedback within this space in the community as they continue to research product enhancements. 

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:

I’m glad to see this basic feature now being supported, however constraining the choice of a shape’s label text location to one of the 4 cardinal compass points is something I last encountered in the 80’s. 

If I have a box shape, typical of many use cases like cloud services icons, I often have net connections attached to all four faces and therefore it is impossible to have a blank side available for shape label text present without obscuring connectivity information (line, arrow, etc.).  I should be able to drag the shape label and place it ANYWHERE on the page, just like every other professional diagramming tool.  Please consider enhancing the feature asap.

Thank you ​@Old Irrigator for your additional feedback here. I certainly understand how useful and important that would be for your use case. Thank you for letting us know what you’d like to see!