Smart Container Formatting - Custom Width

Hi @ReidCrandall, 

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community! Here are a few remarks about the Smart Containers customization options:

• All smart containers are automatically sized equally, which means all containers will match the size of the largest group. It’s not possible to manually adjust their height beyond that. 
• Although it’s not possible to manually adjust the width of the containers/shapes, you can adjust the layout of the Smart Containers by increasing/decreasing the number of columns. To do that, toggle on "Wrap Containers" or "Wrap Shapes" in the Context panel and adjust the column quantity. 
• When typing text into a shape that is longer than the container’s width, the text will be broken up and added to the line below to make it fit into the shape/container width. 
   

  

   

To learn more about this, please check out the Smart Containers article from the Lucid Help Center! 

While what you’re trying to do isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but 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:

I would also like to be able to adjust the width of each of the cards in a smart container. 

Data driven charts and the autoformatting/alignment in smart containers is SUPER useful. 

The big drawback is that every time I have enough data for a smart container to save me time, the shape density is important. It impacts how many elements you can have in a few window. Having 2 lines instead of 1 doubles the height of the element and forces me to resort to normal shapes to maximize information density. Hope it’s on the roadmap. 

Hi ​@PaulMcC-JP, thank you for taking the time to share this 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:

Thank you and please let us know if you have any questions!