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Ungroup Mermaid flowcharts in Lucidchart

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  • March 26, 2026
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When you utilize Mermaid code to generate a flowchart the system automatically groups every node together and the only way to edit them is through the “Diagram as Code” section. Being able to ungroup these so that individual nodes can be edited on the canvas would be very helpful.

March 27, 2026

Hello ​@mpryor - thank you for sharing feedback. I am on the product team at Lucidchart and we’re considering making improvements that would hopefully address this concern.

We are currently doing active user research. If you are willing to answer a few of our questions and share feedback over a brief call, please book time here: https://calendly.com/lucid-software/lucid-research-mermaid 


Thank you!

Vera Toncheva
Product @ Lucid

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Hello ​@mpryor - thank you for sharing feedback. I am on the product team at Lucidchart and we’re considering making improvements that would hopefully address this concern.

We are currently doing active user research. If you are willing to answer a few of our questions and share feedback over a brief call, please book time here: https://calendly.com/lucid-software/lucid-research-mermaid 


Thank you!

Vera Toncheva
Product @ Lucid


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  • Lucid community team
  • March 31, 2026

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: