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Hysen
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How to edit cards template for Lucid cards

Hello Community,  I am trying to use Lucid Cards for one of my use cases. However, the predefined status in the template doesn’t suit my needs. is there a way, I can create my own statuses for the card?

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janejane
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Data Linked from Google Sheet: Is there an API to automate the synchronization

I have Google Sheet Data Linked with my Lucid Chart.  I ensured the Data Manage type is set to “automatic” for every 30 sec.  However, the automatic refresh does not work, I have to click the refresh button manually for the synch.  Is there an API from Lucid Chart to automate the synchronization?

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quimHM
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Conditional Formatting Based on Tags

I’m interested on learning how to programattically access Lucidspark cards’ tags in order to use them and their content within our Conditional Formatting formulas.

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Scott PLucidite
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New JSON Standard Import API

Hi Lucid Developers!🌟 We just launched our JSON Import functionality within the Standard Import API, and it's set to revolutionize the way you create and visualize data in diagrams.🔍 Why is JSON Import a Big Deal?Simplicity and Power: Compared to other import methods, JSON import is less complicated yet more powerful, making it possible to auto-create detailed diagrams. Fully Automated Workflow: You can now automate your entire diagram creation process more quickly. No need to open Lucid - just set up your JSON, send a request to our Import Document endpoint, and let Lucidchart handle the rest. Ideal for Various Use Cases: Whether you're visualizing complex networks or leveraging AI for diagram creation, JSON import has opened up many new possibilities.👥 Who Should Be Excited?Network Professionals: Visualize intricate networks and data centers with ease. AI Enthusiasts: Bring AI-generated diagrams to life quickly. Automation Gurus: JSON import is the perfect option for automating wo

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RickajrLucid Legend Level 3
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Bug Using Story Points Quick Shape Banks With Jira or Lucid Cards

Currently when using either a blank spark board or using the new task estimation template, the story point quick shape bank allows the user to drop the point value onto a jira or a lucid card; however, the card is only holding/displaying the points for each user and not the group.In other words, if Rick adds 2 to a card and David adds 3 to a card - it only shows 1 vote instead of 2 and Rick only sees the vote he added for 2 and David only sees the vote he added for 3.There should be a total of 2 votes being displayed in the results summary modal that pops up when selecting the estimation drop zone. UPDATE - this is the same experience with the T-shirt sizes quick shape bank

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Richard Watson
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Customize or create new Smart Containers?

Is it possible to create new smart containers or customize the current ones?  I was hoping to create a set of smart containers with custom data values and controls. 

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byt_Clint B
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How do I define linear-gradient parameters in a .shape or .manifest file?

I have functioning geometry and a shape .manifest file with the following defaults:        "defaults": {            "fillColor": "#ccffee",            "strokeColor": "#000000",            "strokeWidth": 3,            "rounding": 10,            "width": 120,            "height": 120        }No style formatting is applied in the .shape file (yet).  The shape behaves the way I expect with fill & line properties functioning.  I can set the gradient type and properties using the GUI and it works as intended.  I cannot find in the documentation anywhere how to define and set the ‘linear-gradient’ properties so that they are the defaults for the shape.  How is this done?

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byt_Clint B
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Can variables or properties be defined and referenced in .manifest file?

The below shape entry in my .manifest works as intended with a default width/height of 120px:    {        "shape": "switch_layer2",        "name": "Switch (Layer 2)",        "defaults": {            "fillColor": "#ccffee",            "strokeColor": "#000000",            "strokeWidth": 3,            "rounding": 10,            "width": 120,            "height": 120        }    } I have several shapes with the same basic definition and would like to define variables/constants in the manifest file that are referenced by all shape entries. Alternatively, is it possible to define defaults in the manifest that apply to all shape entries?  That would work just as well.

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william.starling
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Script to add a new cross-account role

I have an organization setup in AWS with many accounts and we will spin up and down accounts based on certain criteria so we have the requirement to get our AWS models on accounts and I currently have to manually go create/add the new cross-account role in Lucid.  The role is created in our AWS accounts automatically using a CloudFormation StackSet so the role is there I just need an automated way to create the cross-account role in Lucid instead of using the GUI.  We don't have to use the CLI method for this as we want the role to be what we use.  Is there a script/api call or some other method we can use with Lucid to automate this?

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Michel L
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How to get the folders under "Home" using Rest API

Using REST API https://api.lucid.co/folders/searchWe can get a list of folders. But only the folder of the user are returned (folder and shared folder). We cannot have Teams Folders. More over, we cannot make the distinction between “Shared with me” folders and the folders of the user.Am I wrong ?I have try to add "Lucid-Request-As" admin" in the header as indicated in the doc but then I got a 403 Error?My scope is nevertheless “folder:readonly folder:admin.readonly”Any help ?It could be great to get the home root folders “Documents” “Shared with me” and to have the sub folders” “Team folders” and “My documents” of “Documents” folder.Best regards.

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hajeon16
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Korean is not available.

When using Korean, the last letter is double entered and can't be written(Same in various PC situations)Please solve it quickly 

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aehrenwo
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Connecting to Office365 Organizational data

Is there a simple way to tie into the organization data that we see in Office365 (specifically Teams reporting Org) to make a dynamic version of an org chart at a certain level with all info and images etc?  Is this a special integration we need to work with Lucid on? I have reviewed the integration options and don’t see anything specific.We also are looking for scripting to auto-format an org chart after this data is loaded based on level.  Any guidance would be appreciated. 

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emmanuelkatto23
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Best practices for using the Lucid API for data visualization - Emmanuel Katto

Hello everyone, My name is Emmanuel Katto. What are the best practices for using the Lucid API for data visualization, and how can we efficiently handle authentication and error management during API calls? Looking forward to tips/advice. Thanks,Emmanuel Katto

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renekreijveld
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User created document through API but cannot view it

We have a user that created a document through the API by posting to the https://api.lucid.co/documents endpoint. We get a reply and in the reply there is an editUrl and a viewUrl.But when the user tries the viewUrl the following message is displayed:Sorry, you don't have permission to access this document. Request access, or switch to an account with access.How is this possible?

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dude95
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Error in API - possible bug??

Just an FYI - I was getting an error when trying to create swimlanes.   message: Invalid shape: 'swimlane' for reason: sum of swim lane widths must equal total width of swim lane objectThis error doesn’t seem to be impacted by the width though. I can change the entire swimlane object to be half the size of the sum of the swim lanes and it’s not affected. What does make this error come in and out is the height of the swimlane object. If the height is less than the sum of the widths, the error comes into play. "id": "swimlane", "type": "swimLanes", "boundingBox": { "x": 140, "y": 200, "w": 560, "h": 860I’ve played around with this for a while - changing the “w” from 560 to 960 to 2000 doesn’t make a difference.  Changing the “h” from 960 to 860 will cause the error.  Just so happens that the three swimlanes in the model are 320 in width.  This doesn’t make sense for validation, so I’m assuming it’s

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skorotygin
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Get only licensed users via SCIM API

Hello,can anyone help to construct the API request to get only licensed users via SCIM (e.g., if any of four urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:lucid:1.0:User.productLicenses is True?This is the API I am using: https://lucid.readme.io/reference/getallusers-1If I use this URI: “https://users.lucid.app/scim/v2/Users?startIndex=1...” this returns ALL active users which is huge count for our organization and I only need to get Users who have any license assigned to them (much smaller count).Documentation says that attribute “urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:lucid:1.0:User.productLicenses” can be used to filter for this but I am not getting how to actually use it.Please help!

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Michel L
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Lucidspark Rest API

Did API exist on LucidSpark for developers ?

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KGV
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Lucidcharts custom shape identification in lucid plugins

Hello,I created a custom shape library with few of custom shapes with this method, and with Extension APIs I only can get some common predefined properties of the used shapes, none of them reflects the custom shape information like Library name or shape type! Is there a way to pragmatically identify/read the shape type a library inside a LucidChart plugin? Note:As a workaround for now, I used the textarea “name” property where I store some info of the shape itself so that I retrieve and identify the used shape, but it doesn’t look ideal for me!{ "properties": [], "style": { "fill": { "type": 'color', "color": '#D7FAF55F', }, "stroke": { "color": '#808080', "width": 6 }, "rounding": 50, }, "geometry": [ { "type": "rect" }, ], "textarea" : { "name" : "customeLibrary000customShapeType", "text" : "Specific Module", "editable": true, "style": { "color": "#0a0a0a" }, },} 

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Users API pagination

Hi Colleagues I'm trying to send a request for the users list but it only return 200 users and it doesn't have a link for the next page although I'm seeing 2K + users    

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raphael.abdias
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Get List of Users - Pagination & License Information

Hi there! I’m trying to get the list of users from the API. So far i was able to get 200 users which i understand is the limit per page. With that said, i’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to move to the next page, the documentation is not clear on what should be done exactly to move to the next pageWhen i fetch the first time i get a Link Header, something like thishttps://api.lucid.co/users?pageSize=20&pageToken=eyJvIjoiMSIsImUiOjE2Mjg2OTc3OTF9>; rel="next"this is the link header of the current page, but how should i move to the next one? i mean, how to i actually use the “next” provided.Link to the documentation:https://lucid.readme.io/reference/reference-rest#paginationAlso, second question, is this Endpoint to List Users able to provide Licenses allocated to users?Thanks in advance,Rapha

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Ben Tesch
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Sharing custom shape library within company

I recently created a custom shapes library using the external API and would like to share it internally with my coworkers.  Based on https://lucid.readme.io/docs/publishing, it looks like “Private Publishing” is the way to go.There are a couple of snags:I am not an administrator on this account A marketplace listing is required, which in turn asks for URLs for a privacy policy and terms of service.  This shapes library has neither, and I don’t think I have access to hosting for this purpose.  (perhaps I could use https://example.com/ ?)Suppose I create the marketplace listing and reach out to an account administrator and they are willing to help publish this shapes library.  It looks like I would have to add them as an application owner for the library under Collaborators → Invite in the developer portal.  All they would have to do at that point is click publish, select the version, and select “publish privately”, right? Are there other ways to share custom shape libraries internally?

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KGV
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How to invoke external REST API from inside LucidChart extension plugin

I am trying to call an external REST API the way shown below, the script runs well through debug-server, but it fails with error when it is packaged and uploaded to run normally. import {EditorClient, Menu, MenuType, Viewport} from 'lucid-extension-sdk';import {prepareData} from './preparedata';import axios from 'axios';const client = new EditorClient();const menu = new Menu(client);const viewport = new Viewport(client);client.registerAction('testAction', () => { const data = new prepareData(client,viewport); data.analyzeData(); const response = axios.get('https://google.com') console.log(response)});menu.addMenuItem({ label: 'test label', action: 'testAction', menuType: MenuType.Main,});Also the code below was tried out with  import {EditorClient, Menu, MenuType, Viewport,XHRRequest} from 'lucid-extension-sdk';import {prepareData} from './preparedata';import axios from 'axios';const client = new EditorClient();const menu = new Menu(client);const viewport = ne

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Richard Watson
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No ContainedBy in JSON export?

I’m trying to use the Document Contents API endpoint to retrieve the diagram data.   I’ve noticed however that there is no “ContainedBy” data available.  This is present in the CSV export.  I have custom data fields bound to the container and would like to be able to parse the JSON in such a way to extract the both the custom data and the child elements of the container. Thank you,Richard

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Ben Tesch
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Adding new custom shapes freezes document

I have a fairly complex diagram that uses a lot of shapes from a large custom shape library.I’m running into a problem where the document freezes (the zoom percentage changes but the view does not change, and I can’t pan) if I try to add a shape from this custom shape library that is not already present in the document.That is, if shape A is already in the document, I can add it no problem.  If shape B is not already in the document, adding shape B causes the document to freeze.  Sometimes the offending shape disappears right away, sometimes it doesn’t.  The shape is always gone after I reopen the document.Creating a copy of the document doesn’t fix the problem.Can you help? Please let me know how to point you to these files.  The document is a confidential work document so I cannot publicly link it.  This form doesn’t let me attach the shape library.

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Richard ULucid support team
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How to retrieve a JSON of any Lucidchart document with the Document Contents request

Are you building an application with Lucid’s external APIs that uses our Document Contents endpoint? The Document Contents endpoint uses an OAuth token with User access scope to return a JSON that describes any document accessible by the User associated with the OAuth token. Read on for more information on what to expect in the response and what to do if you return an error.Let’s take a look at a snippet from the JSON response for an example flowchart document to illustrate how the shapes on the canvas will be represented on the JSON. The magnifying glass in the screenshot below is covering a terminator shape labeled ‘Request complete’:The document content within the magnifying glass will be represented in the JSON as shown in the screenshot below:The object class (TerminatorBlock) is indicated as is the unique ItemId (q7NtnToLUGX9). Every individual shape line group and layer represented in the response will contain a unique value for ItemId to identify the object. For more details on

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