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April 19, 2024
Idea

Smart Container with 3 levels

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  • April 19, 2024
  • 5 replies
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Links to Question 

Smart Containers with 2 groupings | Community (lucid.co)

 

Current:

Data linked smart container can only be grouped by one data linked column.

 

Limits:

I have 3 level hierarchies (business processes, architectures, capability maps, etc.) and with the current limit I can only auto-generate levels 1 and levels 2. Level 3 can only be a text attribute of level 2.

 

Request:

Allow the smart container feature to have a 2nd grouping and another nested array of shapes. All with the same functionality for layouts and other shape formatting.

Comments

April 19, 2024

Example
 

 

Addie
April 19, 2024

Hi, thank you for taking the time to share this idea with us! 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:

 

Addie
May 3, 2024

I would take this a step further and not limit it to just 3 levels, it would be nice to be able to group data to as many levels as needed (similar to the Structure grouping in Lucidscale). 

This would make Smart Containers at least ten times more useful than the current implementation (when working with larger datasets).

April 2, 2025

sooo, do we have {n} level containers on the roadmap yet?

October 1, 2026

Agree on the details noted here, it would be very useful to nest many levels such as 3 to 5 or more. My use case is I have an excel file that outlines AWS accounts, regions, clusters or vpcs and the service names. And instead of manually creating 200+ diagrams, with the excel file this can speed up my process significantly