When you need to see exactly how a single component impacts the rest of your system, highlighting the shapes alone isn't enough. This video shows you how to use page data to create a comprehensive spotlight that illuminates a target shape, its immediate neighbors, and the specific lines that connect them.
What you’ll learn:
- How to create a custom data field at the page level to act as a dynamic "search" or "selector" tool.
- How to build formula-based conditional formatting rules that reference your page data to apply styles automatically. For full formula information, please refer to this documentation.
- How to use filters to identify both connected shapes and the corresponding lines in a single rule.
- How to apply global visual changes, like bright border colors, to create an instant "pathway" on your canvas.
⚙️ A note on the UI
This video was produced around 2024. While the Lucid interface has been refreshed since then, the logic for page data and the formula syntax for connection-based formatting remain fully operational.
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