Requesting Feedback: JSON Import / Post Document Contents!

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September 14, 2023
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Hi friends! I am the Product Manager at Lucid on the API teams and I have exciting news. We've heard your multiple requests for a REST API to create a document based on a JSON... and we're currently building it! We expect to release it by the end of 2023 (but I'm adding the standard caveat of "unexpected things happen so it may be later than end of year").

In the meantime we are trying something new: we are posting the current design of the endpoint in this forum to collect feedback. Our goal is to both 1) improve our initial release and 2) figure out what we should prioritize next.

Here is the design. Please leave feedback and/or questions in this thread. Thanks for building with us!

Update: The REST API for creating documents from JSON has been delivered! Check out the documentation here: Lucid Standard Import.

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Update: The REST API for creating documents from JSON has been delivered! Check out the documentation here: Lucid Standard Import.

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Richard Udell

Lucid support team

Hi @shineblu, thanks for commenting on this thread and adding your input. You’re correct—the auto layout hierarchy action can’t be triggered from the Extension SDK right now. That said, our Development team has flagged this as a great idea, and it’s on their radar for future improvements.

Let me know if there’s anything else we can help with here.

Richard Udell

Lucid support team

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Update: The REST API for creating documents from JSON has been delivered! Check out the documentation here: Lucid Standard Import.

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johnktejik

I cannot figure out this import. The link to the Lucid Standard Import is so confusing. I don’t want a .lucid file. I don’t care about pages. I don’t want documentSettings. and ExtensionBootstrapData? how is this a basic example? The basic ‘demo’ has a .csv and images and doesn’t even come with an example request on how to use it.

I just want a simple hello world. Is that so hard? I just want an example curl string that I can cut-and-paste into postman, that creates 2 boxes, one says ‘hello’ the other says ‘world’ and a line points between them.

I cannot find any documentation on how to create such a simple diagram.

shineblu

Hi @shineblu, thanks for commenting on this thread and adding your input. You’re correct—the auto layout hierarchy action can’t be triggered from the Extension SDK right now. That said, our Development team has flagged this as a great idea, and it’s on their radar for future improvements.

Let me know if there’s anything else we can help with here.

Hiya Richard! It was quite a while, do you have any news for the requested feature or any development related to diagrams auto-alignment after the import? Cheers!

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