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Hello. I am new to Lucid.

 

I want to know if it is possible to publish a link to a document in a way that a specific page in the document will be displayed first.

It is not a problem if the other pages are visible/accessible, but what I want is, when the URL is opened, that a specific page (not necessarily page 1) will be displayed first. Is that possible?

Any help much appreciated.

 

Hi @fritz 

Your use case is achievable, and we have a detailed discussion on this topic which was threaded inside the learning campus.

Can you quickly take a look into the below link and see if that helps you:

 

Link from MS doc to specific page of view-only Lucidchart doc | Community

Embed links and media in Lucid – Lucid

 

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

Warm regards


Hi @Humas1985  - thanks for the response. However, having read through the links you provide, I am not sure these address what I want to achieve.

What I want to do is to share a URL that will display continuous updates. So any of the PDF or image options that I see under “Publish” will not achieve what I want.

I think what I am looking for is something like a parameter at the end of the Publish URL that specifies which page in the published document to show first or topmost.

Can that be done?


Hi @fritz 

Thanks for adding more insight and this point clears a lot.

This part is something we cannot achieve at this time with the available feature.

Warm Regards !!


One additional point I wanted to share - we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. 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:

 


Thanks for the response @Micah  -  here is an explanation for why I am asking about this feature:

if I have a project with say 10 flowcharts that are all related, I would ideally like to keep them in one document, with each chart on a different page. If I then want to publish a link to each flowchart (page) I cannot do that when I publish the document, because a user will always land on the first page in the document, whereas I want them to see a specific flowchart which is say on page 7.

Unless I do not understand this properly, the only way I see how to do this is to split my document with 10 pages into 10 documents, and then publish each page separately. That is not very elegant, so I would like to avoid that.

It should be relatively easy to create a publish link to a document, and then we can just add an optional parameter at the end which specifies which page in the document to open by default, otherwise it will open page 1 if the optional parameter is not provided.


Hi @fritz, that is great additional context. Unfortunately, the workaround you described of splitting your document into multiple pages and publishing them separately is the best method right now. I definitely understand how this would be a significant improvement to your workflow!