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mwyman
mwyman
asked in Lucid for Developers
Ability to manipulate dynamic tables?

Hello all! I had some general questions about your Dynamic Tables. Would appreciate any thoughts or to point me in the right direction. :)Is there a way through the Extension API or other means to access properties or methods for a Dynamic Table? Poking around I see that it is referred to as a “DynamicMatrixColumnBlockClassName” I think? Is there a way to read any properties such as column or row headings? Determine what cards are in a column/row/cell? (I know I’m pushing my luck here) Is there an ability to define Custom Column values and programmatically associate cards to the correct columns using custom logic? (Similar to the way the dynamic table auto shifts cards based on standard data fields assigned to Columns and Rows.)Thank you!Matt

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Ian Baenziger
9 months ago
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Taffin
asked in Lucid for Developers
License Management API

Hi,Currently we’re using SCIM to manage our user access and grant/remove licenses - this is working fine from our user management side for onboard/offboarding but has some caveats such as not being able to poll the license information directly, which has the potential to put us over our license count.Are there any APIs available for querying specifically information about our licenses? Ideally an endpoint that we can use to retrieve what products we’re licensed for, how many licenses are issued and how many are available would be brilliant. Cheers,Taffin

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9 months ago
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daltonc
asked in Lucid for Developers
Lucid Import Document API - HTML Line Breaks and bullets being ignored.

I’ve been experimenting with the Import document API using the standard lucid format, and it’s been great for the most part. One thing I’m running into though, is it seems like when I supply line breaks or bulleted lists via HTML, the breaks/bullets get ignored. I’ve tried even uploading the sample I found in Github, https://github.com/lucidsoftware/sample-lucid-rest-applications/blob/44f7c102b8dec5fd2495aaba17c6797aff668ca8/standard-import/demo-files/filesystem/unzipped-contents/document.json#L11 and I don’t think the line break for that is working either. Has anyone had success with this? Curious if it’s end user error on my end. I’m hoping to get to where we can have code produce our diagrams, and being able to create line breaks/bullets programmatically will be key for our diagrams.Here is some example JSON I’ve tried to upload.{    "version":1,    "pages":[      {        "id":"page1",        "title":"New Page",        "shapes":[          {"id":"block0","type":"stickyNote","customD

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9 months ago
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ReidCrandall
asked in Lucid for Developers
Access Link Data on Shape from Formula

It is possible to use a formula in the Conditional Formatting to access the data in a link applied to that shape?I am looking to both access whether a link has been added to the shape and also the link itself if it is a URL or a different Lucidchart Page. Thanks,Reid

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Adam Y
10 months ago
mwyman
mwyman
asked in Lucid for Developers
Newbie question doing my first API call - 403 response

Hello all - I’m trying to get my development environment set up to build some desktop utilities to modify LucidChart documents. I’m attempting my first API call to the documents endpoint and getting a 403 response. Any help would be greatly appreciated - and sorry for the long post.Here’s what I’ve done so far:Created my document in LucidChart, so I am the owner of it. Grabbed the document ID from the URL (hopefully that’s the right one?) In the Lucid Developer Portal, I created an application, created the OAuth 2.0 client, generated my client ID and Client secret, and registered the Lucid Test redirect URI using my client ID.  I am using VS Code and Python, and have leveraged some of your sample code from the documentation to get the authentication and token refreshing working, storing the access token locally for use until expired. Seems to be working great so far! Since I’m building against just the console right now, I temporarily have the script launch a web browser for the OAuth

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mwyman
10 months ago
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Paul Passot
asked in Lucid for Developers
Standard Import API error :Count: 2, message: error.expected.jsstring

Hi! I’m getting a “badRequest” response from the documents API indicating  "details": {        "error": "Count: 2, message: error.expected.jsstring",        "import_error_code": "invalid_file"    } My payload is a single page document with 61 shapes and 82 lines. I have looked at string fields (in my case: title, shapes.type, shapes.style.type, shapes.text, lines.stroke.style, linetype, lines.text.text).I was expecting to perhaps spot an unescaped character, or something, but can’t see anything wrong. Any idea what could be wrong? Am I hitting some sort of size limit?The JSON is dynamically created as part of a software I’m building, and works in every other scenario except for this specific one.Thank you for your help!Paul  

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10 months ago
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ufarr
asked in Lucid for Developers
Getting last modified date on files in folder contents

Hello Team, We have two questions:1- We have a team Lucid Folder that we want to watch (export any document that gets newly created or gets modified). Is there a mechanism to set-up event/trigger if that folder is updated?2- When we query folder-contents, we receive list of all documents within a folder. Can we get their last updated timestamp? Thank you

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Richard U
10 months ago
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Fedir
asked in Lucid for Developers
OAuth2 consent page does not seem to be optimized for mobile devices

Hello Lucid developers!At my work I'm trying to add Lucid export to one mobile app. According to the documentation I'm trying to redirect a client from my mobile app to a web browser at https://lucid.app/oauth2/authorize (plus necessary parameters).And in a mobile browser (more precisely android’s Custom Tabs), after logging into Lucid, the user sees such a screen (see screenshot). It doesn't seem to be optimized for mobile devices. It seems even not horizontally scrollable. Can you (Lucid developers) fix this? Or maybe I can fix this from my side somehow?I also have two less important questions.1) The user of the mobile application can log in through a web browser, after which the application receives an authorization code and the necessary tokens. After this, the user may want to unlink the mobile application from his Lucid account and we call the API here (https://developer.lucid.co/rest-api/v1/#oauth2-revoke-access-token). After which the user may want to log in to Lucid again with

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Connor B
10 months ago
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jdockett3
asked in Lucid for Developers
License management under LucidSuite

Hello, We were using the SCIM api with a connector app to Grouper, but since the update to LucidSuite, that no longer works.The developer docs still reference doing licenses like this:"productLicenses": {    "Lucidchart": True,    "Lucidspark": false,    "LucidscaleCreator": false,    "LucidscaleExplorer": false} Do you have the updated schema available so that we can restore license functionality?

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Adam Y
10 months ago
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ufarr
asked in Lucid for Developers
Getting multiple tabs diagram via API

Hello Team, I am using API to export document. However, it exports only first tab of the document. Could you point me to resources / end-points that I could use to export all tabs within a diagram?

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10 months ago
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jacki
asked in Lucid for Developers
Converting Excel Employees to Salesforce Contacts

I would like to know if there is a way to convert employee cards from auto generate Excel org charts into contact cards for Salesforce. The current format of the org chart from Excel lists all contacts as employees, but is there a function to convert them to contacts? 

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Ian Baenziger
10 months ago
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AlexanderZ
asked in Lucid for Developers
Error (Status Code) 500 when requesting document content over API

Hello everyone,I have the following problem, I have created a script to get all data about the shapes of each page from a Lucidchart document with the Lucid API. The Lucid document now has over 160 pages. The script worked as long as the Lucidchart document had fewer pages, now I get the status code 500 when requesting the contents (see the snippet of the code for the request)....headers <- httr::add_headers( 'Authorization' = paste('Bearer', token$credentials$access_token), 'Lucid-Api-Version' = '1')....response_document_content <- httr::GET(paste0("https://api.lucid.co/documents/", document_id, "/contents"), headers)#test responseif (response_document_content$status_code == 200) { content_document_content <- httr::content(response_document_content, type = "application/json")} else { cat("Request failed with status:", response_document_content$status_code, "\n") cat(content(response_document_content, "text"), "\n")}To reduce the load of the request, I tried to reduce it

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Richard U
10 months ago
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ufarr
asked in Lucid for Developers
Getting error while embeding document

Getting following error while attempting to embed a document in html  

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Adam Y
10 months ago
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blibanos
asked in Lucid for Developers
AccessForbidden

Hello, I am trying to create a script that would export all files in the Lucid platform as an image file, however I am getting the following error message when trying to call the api below. The interesting part is though, I don’t get this error message if I have opened the file in a browser prior to using the api.  Is this a bug or is it something I am not doing. api:https://api.lucid.co/documents/03682f3d-7947-41d5-bd3c-1ea6e66f68b5response:{ "code": "accessForbidden", "message": "Access to this resource is forbidden", "requestId": "42f57773fbf39c50"}Thank You, Bereket Redhat Inc. 

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11 months ago
Sylvia X
Sylvia XLucid support team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Lucid Standard Import (a.k.a. JSON Import) API FAQ

Hi Lucid Developers! 👋Since the launch of our JSON Import functionality, we've seen an array of creative and efficient uses by our customers. In this post, we'll address some of the most frequently asked questions about the JSON Import feature. Additionally, we’d like to announce expanded functionality based on your valuable feedback: support for adding notes to shapes via the API! 🌟 Adding notes to shapes 📄You can now add notes to shapes, groups and layers by including a note field in your shape properties. For more information on how to do this, feel free to check out our documentation here!  JSON Import API FAQs 🙋 Q: Is the JSON import asynchronous? How will I know when the import is complete?No, it is actually synchronous. When the request is returned, the document is complete. Q: Is z-order for an entity based on array position? Last-on-top or first-on-top? (Does this mean lines are already "on top" of shapes, since it is a separate array?)In Lucid's JSON structure, z-order re

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Sylvia X
11 months ago
ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
asked in Lucid for Developers
Error with Embed Rest API

I’m getting an error while trying to embed a Viewer iFrame using the REST API. “Our servers experienced an error. We apologize for the inconvenience. I send a POST to https://api.lucid.co/embeds/token with no embedId, just the origin in the body and the bearer token in the header per the documentation here: https://developer.lucid.co/rest-api/v1/#generate-embed-session-token60 I get back a Session Token in the body of the response and then set this as my iFrame source:https://lucid.app/embeds?token=:token where :token is replaced with the response from the POST and get the below error. This was working previously but stopped working at some point, I think in December. I believe it is also not working when there is an embedId but haven’t had a chance to retest that.  

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ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
11 months ago
ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
asked in Lucid for Developers
API: Create User With license asigned

I’m trying to create a user via the REST Api, I can successfully create them but they don’t get created with a license. Is there a way to create a user via the REST API with a standard user license assigned?

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ben.bahrman@headintheclouddev.
11 months ago
Nick D101
Nick D101
asked in Lucid for Developers
Error using Object syntax from documentation

I am trying to develop functionality for a custom Extension and I would like to reference a value from a JSON object stored in a Field. The documentation has formulas (such as GET(obj, val)) that I am trying to use. However, they are not working and I am running into issues.I then tried to figure out the intended format of objects by using the examples provided in the documentation. However, these do not work and I am needing help.Using this page: https://developer.lucid.co/formulas/#get, I am trying to get the GET formula of the Object class working. There is a Field called “Object” with values “{ "A": 1, "B": 2, "C": 3, "D": 4, "E": 5, }”. Then, values can be retrieved from that object using =GET(@Object, “A”). I tried to simulate this on my own document but ran into issues. Can someone help me understand the format objects can be stored in? Specifically, can I store an object in JSON format in a field and use the GET formula to get value from it?Link to test document: https://lucid.

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11 months ago
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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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year ago
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