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@will w .... I think my ideal would be for Team Space documents to be viewable in a similar way to other documents. As a user of Lucid that works across multiple teams and departments I need to be able to see all the Lucid content I have access to in a consistent way. RIght now if I convert a Team Folder into a Team Space.... then the documents stop behaving like other documents..... and that makes for a disjointed and confusing experience!

@lisa b would love to dig more into this any chance you'd be willing to hop on a call and chat? 

Feel free to shoot me an e-mail at wwang@lucid.com

Hi Will.  Can you help us leave Team Spaces?  This feature is unusable without being able to create new folders or copy docs from folder to folder.  Copy-pasting is not an acceptable workaround since it will make us lose edit/ownership history.

Hi there,
I’m not a massive user of Lucid -- however, one thing that is so wildly confusing is that clicking on “Team Space” opens a document instead of showing the documents. This pattern is counterintuitive of it being a folder for containing other documents.  It feels like it’s having an identity crisis on what it’s trying to be. I had to change the logo to remind myself! 😆

If you want to create a “source of truth” document, may I suggest it be something users can pin within the folder instead?

I currently use Lucidchart for various purposes like process mapping, strategic planning, brainstorming, and task management. Team Spaces have been instrumental in facilitating collaboration and organization within our team.

We utilize Team Spaces as collaborative hubs for specific projects or ongoing tasks. It serves as a centralized area where team members can collectively work on diagrams, share ideas, and collectively contribute to various aspects of our projects.

Within our Team Spaces, we link external documents and data that complement our diagrams. This helps in providing context or additional information related to the diagrams without cluttering the visual workspace.

Absolutely! We rely on the templates available in the library. It helps us streamline our workflow. We frequently use predefined templates available in Lucidchart to kickstart our projects, especially for common processes, workflows, or planning sessions.

We just tried Team Spaces. It’s not terribly useful for us. I like Lucidchart a lot, but the team spaces visual metaphor is very strange. I don’t see the value of creating a top level visually focused compound document with a lot of sub documents.

The metaphor breaks down, as it has no real relationship with how people communicate data with each other. The setup effort to create a “visual wiki” is not worth it in my view. 

I want to basically make a large group of documents available to and extended  and team folders is more useful in that.  

Hi! I’m a consultant at a health care org and my team uses Team Spaces as the foundation of our monthly consulting team huddles. We assign a different person every month to facilitate so they’re responsible for making updates. What’s cool is that the archive feature lets us save notes from the discussion and we can label the frames by month to refer back if needed. A problem we’ve come across, though, is the archive function hasn’t been working the past few months. When we archive, it displays a blank canvas. Our workaround for the moment has been to copy and paste everything from the General Team to the blank archive page. Troubleshooting this would be a big help since members of my team are still getting familiar with the basics and I wouldn’t want this to be an obstacle in that. Thank you!

Hi @Will W - I’ve joined a new team that is exploring the use of Team Space, but I’m not sure that LucidSpark isn’t the better fit. Why Team Space instead Spark? Distinguishing features I see:

• Co-locate files in Team Content (Can I create new folders? We have a lot of internal Team Folder and external sources, so not sure we want this.)
• Toolbar defaults - easier to create links, embedded links (Same available though, I think, in Spark when configuring individual items)
• Archives (Is it meant to go blank when an archive version is created? The pinning prerequisite was unexpected. Spark would leave us with Revision History.)
• Paths

I, too, have to think when using the entry navigation - particularly the Team Spaces list. Haven’t used Lucid enough to find a flow navigating with the Team Spaces grid, or Team Space / Team Content grid or list.

Our company has recently moved over from a competitor product and have been playing around with the team spaces for the last few weeks.  We are using it to store all boards related to the products our team supports.  Our team, therefore, mostly goes to the team space to see the list of documents and have found it a little counterintuitive that you have to click the small link on the tile to go to the documents view.  Clicking the tile should take you to the documents view and the default shared board should just be a document within that space.  I have had to explain to many team members that they have to click the view documents link in order to get to all of our shared documents.