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Lucid for Developers

Learn from and collaborate with other developers. Find answers to your most technical questions and get support with Lucid's APIs.

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157 Topics
Julio R
Julio R
posted in Lucid for Developers
Awesome tool for Developers

Hi my name is Julio Revilla Clinical Development Manager at Suvida Healthcare. Lucid has helped me and my team to improve ideation brainstorming and presentations.

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Richard U
1 year ago
Ian Baenziger
Ian BaenzigerLucid product team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Welcome to the Lucid Developer Community!

Hi! My name is Ian Baenziger and I’m Lucid’s lead Product Manager for our APIs. Pleasure to e-meet you! 👋We are VERY excited to launch the Developer section of our Community. In this section the developers actually building Lucid’s APIs will be available to answer your most technical questions. Furthermore here we plan to announce new endpoints tools and guides to help developers have the best possible experience developing on Lucid’s APIs. We’ll also post helpful tips for using our APIsSo feel free to let us know what’s on your mind! Do you have a question about how to use our APIs? Is something not working the way you expected? Are there additional ways we can help you have a positive experience? We’re all ears. 😀 To post a question of your own use the Create a topic form linked here or at the top of any Community page and choose “Lucid for Developers” as the topic to add it to this section.Thank you and we’re excited to hear from you!

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Ian Baenziger
1 year ago
Mahendra J
Mahendra J
asked in Lucid for Developers
Lucidchart Integration using API for Entity-Relationship Diagram

Hello We are building MDM tool to manage dimension metadata. We have all the metadata that Lucidchart need to build Entity Relationship Diagram. Instead of importing metadata manually is there an API which we can use to supply metadata in JSON format to generate Entity Relation Diagram? Thanks Mahendra

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Ian Baenziger
1 year ago
David H101
David H101
asked in Lucid for Developers
Access the API programmatically

Hello I'm looking at this page and just wanting to confirm my understanding of the following paragraph: "Authorization must happen in the browser because a user must give consent for the client to access their information. For this reason the authorization request cannot be made from Postman curl or some other HTTP client." Is there really no way to access the API programmatically? Thank you!

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Micah
1 year ago
Michael B
Michael BLucid product team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Generating long lasting OAUTH tokens in Lucid

Hello World! My name is Michael Bowers and I am the team lead for Lucid’s External Api team. I am extremely excited to begin building our community and work directly with you to enable Lucid to help take your vision to the next level. To do that I would like to start with our most asked question: Developers exploring our APIs often say to us “An OAuth token is required to use your endpoints and a user needs to manually authorize the creation of this token via a browser. These tokens expire every hour… is there a way to build a long-living application on your API that doesn’t require a user/manual intervention every hour?”. Good news. There is a way! With our APIs you can build an application that requires user intervention just once and can then run forever without any further user action by generating refresh tokens. This can be done by requesting the offline_access scope when obtaining the initial OAuth token. Including this scope will cause a refresh token to be provided in the Crea

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Michael B
1 year ago
Network A
Network A
asked in Lucid for Developers
Is LucidChart Scriptable?

I'd like to create a button on the master page that would take the viewer to the "last page viewed". This is an important element in building a dynamic multi-page document that can be navigated effortlessly. The "Page" action is useful to a point but it does not offer the ability to "remember" where the user "came from". Often a "destination" page may be viewed from several different starting points. It makes sense that the "starting point" could be captured as a variable and used in an action to "return to the previous page". If this is not already built into LucidChart can LucidChart be scripted using Javascript?

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Coumba D
2 years ago
Jesse B
Jesse B
asked in Lucid for Developers
Dynamic attributes within an object

Is there a way to show a dynamic list of attributes within an object? For example consider the following objects described by 2 different models belonging to 2 different teams:   "Box" "Box"ID (id) ID (id)Label (string) Recipient (string)Contents (list:Contents) Address 1 (string) Address 2 (string) City (string) State (string) ZIP (int)   Is there a way to put each "Box" object on a separate layer but have the "Box" object look as follows when both layers are selected?   "Box"ID (id)Label (string)Contents (list:Contents)Recipient (string)Address 1 (string)Address 2 (string)City (string)State (string)ZIP (int)   I'm looking for a solution where each of my 2 teams only have to edit their own version (layer?) of the object and have the combined list

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Clara H
3 years ago
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