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Chris.Engstrom
asked in Lucid for Developers
ServiceNow Integration

After following the steps for integrating with ServiceNow: we get the following error: Error occured while creating Business Application Hierarchy in Lucidchart. Please try again.ServiceNow is describing the issue as a Token issue.Is anyone familiar with how to solve this?

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Richard U
9 months ago
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jayant.kumar
asked in Lucid for Developers
Need Assistance Accessing Lucidchart API and Developer Portal

I'm currently working on a project that involves integrating Lucid chart's interface into a website. The goal is to provide users with the ability to edit, view, and save charts directly from our interface,I've encountered an issue during the initial setup. I’m unable to access the Lucid chart Developer Portal for further documentation and resources. However, every time I try to access the portal, I am redirected to the documents page with the message:"To unlock the Developer Portal, contact your admin for the developer role assignment. Unsure who your admin is? Check our documentation for guidance."even if I’m not on an enterprise account but on free trial.I've looked through the documentation, but I'm still unsure how to get api keys or the developer portal access. Is there a specific process for getting the developer role assignment without contacting the admin as it is my personal account. Also, in user settings there is no option to turn on developer account or mode.Any insights o

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Coumba D
9 months ago
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arajN2
asked in Lucid for Developers
Create/Update Document User Collaborator issue

What are the ideal scopes needed for this User token when trying to access a lucidchart document? Having tried most of the scopes provided in the documentation, I have not been able to get anything other than a 403 error. Verified the error code from the website as well, created a lucidchart test doc with a valid id to work with. Any ideas or information on how to approach this would be helpful.

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Abigail M
10 months ago
Luke I
Luke I
asked in Lucid for Developers
API endpoint for Publishing a View only URL for a non account holder

Is there a way to share a URL like you can in the Share>publish menu via the developer API? Thanks  

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Richard U
10 months ago
Ashley C
Ashley CLucid support team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Get support for a partner-built integration 🔎

With Lucid’s REST and extension APIs, developers can get creative and build the integrations they want. So many excellent integrations have already been built—check them out and install them from the Integrations Marketplace! When you have questions or need support with a partner-built integration, we recommend reaching out to the partner’s support team for the best experience and quickest resolution. If you’re interested in building an integration of your own, you can learn all about how to access Developer tools in Lucid in our help center article. We’re looking forward to seeing what you create!

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Ashley C
10 months ago
Richard U
Richard ULucid support team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Your new community platform: a central hub for all Lucid developer resources

Welcome to our new community platform!You might have noticed some changes around here – that's because we've upgraded to a new platform for the entire Lucid Community, bringing new features and opportunities for all our members, including the Lucid for Developers community space. What’s new?Now you can earn builder badges, more dynamically engage with forum discussions, participate in Groups, and even send private messages to other Community members, and more easily format code in your posts and comments. As we make this exciting transition, it's the perfect opportunity to revisit the wealth of resources available for interacting with Lucid's APIs and building extensions. Key resources for interacting with Lucid's APIs and building extensions: Getting started with our public APIs: Visit our Development guide Review documentation for our REST API, Extension API, SCIM API, Custom Shapes and Formulas  Visit our Help Center article on Developer Tools Go to your Developer Portal and crea

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Richard U
10 months ago
Deepak C
Deepak C
posted in Lucid for Developers
Lucid Integration with JS based website

Hi all Is it possible to integrated Lucid in websites build with FE tech like Angular/React where user can see and utilize all the functionalities like create floorplan etc. here users of this system won't need to have their own Lucid account system will use common account with separate document for each user.  

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Richard U
11 months ago
Christopher K101
Christopher K101
posted in Lucid for Developers
Error 500 when trying to upload new custom shape package

Hello I'm working on a custom shape library. I got a new package uploaded but there was a problem with it. So I fixed it (I think) and tried to upload a new bundle and I got an error:Can't seem to figure out what the issue is.

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Richard U
11 months ago
Vyshnavy S
Vyshnavy S
posted in Lucid for Developers
Export Lucidchart in csv format directly using an external api to third party service

I am interested in integrating Lucidchart with our third-party application to access Lucidchart documents. However Lucid REST API integration lacks shape library details necessary for converting content to BPMN format which is one of our preferred formats. I am exploring the possibility of directly exporting Lucidchart documents in CSV format via an external API or a custom API service that connects to our third-party application. This would greatly enhance our workflow and allow for seamless data exchange between systems. I kindly request assistance and guidance on achieving this integration and CSV export functionality. Your expertise and support in this matter would be greatly appreciated.  

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Richard U
11 months ago
Krishna K
Krishna K
posted in Lucid for Developers
invalid_scope error when during oAuth setup

Hello Any idea on what this invalid_scope error would be? Trying to setup oauth connectivity.   https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.lucid.co%2Fapi%2F%23general-oauth2-errors&error_description=Invalid+scopes%3A+&state=-529097523

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Richard U
11 months ago
Tuto O
Tuto O
asked in Lucid for Developers
Angular Application Problem

Hello currently I am developing an integration using Angular to create a panel for dragging blocks. I am trying to follow the Angular guide provided by Lucid here:https://developer.lucid.co/guides/#angular However I am encountering a problem. My panel appears and I can see my blocks but when I try to drag a block it doesn't get placed on the canvas. I'm not sure how to implement the part described in "Step 6: Write your Angular app." I'm unsure if this component is necessary to refresh the web page when I place a block. Please help me with this issue.     I didn't implement this code: import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';@Injectable() export class DataFromExtension {public ids: string[] = [];constructor() {//Listen for lists of selected item IDswindow.addEventListener('message' (event) =>{ if (event.data['ids']) { this.ids = event.data['ids']; } });//Once ready to receive those messages ask the extension to refresh dataparent.postMessage('refresh' '*'); } }

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Tuto O
11 months ago
Daniel H
Daniel H
asked in Lucid for Developers
Customizing LucidChart UI

I have created custom UIs within MIRO as part of my organization product offerings.  We would like to provide a similar experience to LucidChart.  React would be our preferred web framework and I see documentation on this. LucidChart toolbar has File Edit View Insert set menu items.  Can you extend LucidChart menu?  Add a new menu item perhaps with sub menus? Shapes on the document in LucidChart contain a right click.  Can you add new right-click menu items? The documentation for React UI shows adding a new custom right panel.   I looked but cannot find the other options to add panels or modals.  What are the alternatives? Thanks Dan

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Richard U
1 year ago
Daniel H
Daniel H
posted in Lucid for Developers
End user process for adding custom UI apps?

I read the documentation on how to use React web framework to make custom UIs within LucidChart which can be found here: The documentation does a good job of explaining the development workflow.   Suppose I built a new react custom right panel.  How can I provide this custom right panel to all potential Lucidchart users? What is the process for end users to add custom apps?

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J
1 year ago
Vyshnavy S
Vyshnavy S
asked in Lucid for Developers
Can you use Lucid chart api to export diagram in json or xml

Is it possible to export lucid chart diagram in xml or json format using Lucidchart export from third party system . I have an application which uses BPMN to map business processes I wanted to integrate Lucidchart as an option to import the BPMN I wanted to know if the LucidApis provide an option to export the diagrams from Lucid chart to third party in xml or json format. 

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Richard U
1 year ago
M V
M V
asked in Lucid for Developers
Create document contents via Rest API in Lucidchart

We are trying to create chart using API but we see only GetContents API only. Is there any POST API where we can create chart contents using the API.  

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Ian Baenziger
1 year ago
Iconduck
Iconduck
asked in Lucid for Developers
Having trouble with Parent/iframe Message Posting in Lucid

With respect to the Extension API calling `this.sendMessage` is not resulting in the iframe receiving the message. The code is being called from a class that extends `Panel`. The receiving iframe _does_ receive messages from the parent frame but not the ones I'm sending. Here's some of the `extension.ts` code: https://pastebin.com/LnTGjp9C The receiving frame's code is simple: window.addEventListener('message' function(event) {    console.log(arguments);}); Here's a screenshot of the events that _are_ captured (but not the one I'm sending from the parent):  https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/onassar.prod.02/screenshots/Screenshot%202023-08-28%20at%201.18.44%20PM.jpg

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Iconduck
1 year ago
john.a.lopez
john.a.lopez
asked in Lucid for Developers
Automating API Calls with Lucidchart Formulas

First note the link to the forum:https://lucidchart.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/17739799655316-Embed-Jupyter-Notebook-in-LucidChart-diagram-and-visa-versa?page=1#community_comment_18595071382932 The purpose of this is to drive automations that in turn return some value and thus influence the shape-object metadata and hence the conditional formatting. A use-case may be with a decision/gateway that collected data from previous task-properties via UPSTREAMDEEP. This is sent to the Python code that in turn evaluates the parameters makes a decision and returns that decision to the gatetway. This has numerous applications both in simulations and also in live-service at edge device status reporting. Please advise your thoughts. Thank you

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Emma D
1 year ago
Richard U
Richard ULucid support team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Using the Lucid Extension API to fetch the URL response from a shape that "links to a web page"

@john.a.lopez  asked about enhancing the shape Actions > Link to Web feature by building an extension that fetches a response from a linked URL and then uses this response to populate a property value for a Lucidchart shape. That's a great question and I thought I'd move it here to the Lucid for Developers Community space for discussion on how this can be done!Can the URL set in an Action stored in the MapProxy.values and accessible via BlockProxy.allShapeData?A property named 'Link' is returned by block.properties.get('Link')  Does the URL need to be explicitly set as one of the shape's properties?No the user doesn't need to define the URL in the custom shape data. The URL will be stored in the block properties as 'Link'so long as it is assigned to the shape's with shape Actions > Link to Web feature. Finally once you have the URL then you can make a request to it using editorClient.xhr .or editorClient.oauthXhr to recover the response. For detailed documentation please refer to

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Richard U
1 year ago
Team F
Team F
asked in Lucid for Developers
Critical!: Incomplete data when getting the document content from the API

I think I have found a critical bug for API users when in my document I have a form of type "DefaultTableBlock" of a size other than 3 x 3 the document content request returns the figure trimmed to the first 9 cells ( 3 x 3) if the size is smaller the response JSON has empty cells in the same way if the size is larger I lose information. This is intermittent since if I modify the document moving the pages of the document or delete figures the request for the document content returns the information correctly however if I leave the document without modifying it for at least 5 minutes and return to run the request the error happens again. however in the diagram displayed in Lucidchart there is no loss of information or any visible errors. At the moment as far as I've tested this only affects "DefaultTableBlock" figures is it a bug? Example with bug: { "id": "8~wjFQtBQs06" "class": "DefaultTableBlock" "textAreas": [ { "label": "Cell_00"

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Team F
1 year ago
Richard U
Richard ULucid support team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Building dynamic shapes using formulas

Chris W. asked in our Product Questions Community space about building a custom server rack shape that can be resized by defining a property from the Contextual Panel > Layout > Advanced Options menu in the same way as our built-in server racks shapes library are sized based on the property "U". That's an excellent question and I thought I'd move it to the Lucid for Developers Community space for discussion!Resizing a shape based on a property value can be done with Lucid's Extension API!  However there are some limitations compared to the built-in library mainly the shape can only be resized by defining the property in the Advance Options panel.The trick is to set minSize and maxSize in the shape to have the same value for height and width where the height is calculated from the properties.For example if a property exists with the name U then the size constraints would be: "minSize": { "height": "=@U * 40" "width": 300 } "maxSize": { "height": "=@U

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Richard U
1 year ago
Kevin C101
Kevin C101
posted in Lucid for Developers
Can't access resource with the oauth2 token I c reated

I have successully followed the documentation to create my oath2 token but when I go to test it I get:         <h1>Not Found</h1>         <p id="detail">            For request 'GET /publicapi/oauth2/user'        </p> My command is: curl https://api.lucid.co/oauth2/user --request GET --header "Authorization: Bearer oauth2-<redacted token>" I have gone back to create my token a few times and tried a few different tests per the documentation.  I always get the above error back.   Thanks. Kevin J. Conway  

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Richard U
1 year ago
Michael M101
Michael M101
posted in Lucid for Developers
VR/AR Future?

Developer question: Any VR plans? I had my first taste of VR/AR mind-mapping the other day and have since gone on to experiment with a few others including ShapesXR and Noda.  So this stuff is pretty cool and I can see a lot of advantage to moving to this type of interface.  Any Lucid plans to head this direction?

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Richard U
1 year ago
Boris N
Boris N
posted in Lucid for Developers
Lucidchart API - list of folders IDs

Hi LucidchartsWhat is the preferred API method to get a list of folders IDs? I'm trying to pull together the list of users and collaborators and all of those calls require a folder ID; but I'm finding difficulty even fetching a list of folder IDs. Is there an API call to GET /folders which returns a list of folder IDs? Thank you -Boris

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Boris N
1 year ago
Ben F101
Ben F101
posted in Lucid for Developers
Get Lucidchart comments via API

Is it possible to get all the comments in a document via the API? Further can it be filtered by comment date? The use-case is to get comments for any changes since the last application release. The engineering team would update the diagram if/when something changes for the release.

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Richard U
1 year ago
wasiq.hussain
wasiq.hussain
asked in Lucid for Developers
Lucidchart data import from Snowflake via API

HiI would appreciate if you could provide me with more information regarding Lucidchart's API capabilities for importing data. Specifically I would like to know if it is possible to develop an organization chart in Lucidchart by importing data from an external source such as Snowflake using the Lucidchart API. I do know for a fact that it is not possible to directly connect to Snowflake.It would be helpful if you could direct us to relevant documentation or provide guidance on how we can achieve this integration.Thanks.

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Richard U
1 year ago
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