selectable (to copy) "Notes" with "Comment" permission

Hi Bharath

Thanks for reaching out to the Lucid community. Unfortunately as you mentioned text in notes is not selectable in View/Comment mode. However 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 into an idea in our Product Feedback space, where others can upvote it and comment additional details about their use case. 

As a workaround you could add the note text into a shape (perhaps a sticky note shape to indicate that the text in it is behaving as a note) and the text in that shape would be possible to copy and paste even in View/Comment mode.

I apologize for the inconvenience and hope that this helps you continue your work.

My organization also has the same need for a permission level where a user can select a shape and add Comments but cannot move or modify the shape itself. This allows for the creator of a document to send it out for feedback while allowing them to review the feedback before making changes (asynchronous collaboration with limited change authority).

Hi Jacob

Thanks for posting your question to the thread. Where what you're describing isn't an explicit permission level setting I'd like to suggest the following as an option.

If you Lock an object you can set it so people you have shared your document with can edit the content within a shape but not move the shape itself. You would need to grant these individuals edit access to the overall document but can prevent what they can actually edit using the Lock feature. Here's what that looks like from your end.

If this doesn't sound like it will work for your use case or if you'd like to pass along the idea to our product developers anyway, we’d love to hear more via this thread.

Let us know if you have any more questions!