Force Copy

I keep forgetting how to do this, but it is a thing!  I have used this video for reminding me how to make a forced copy of items for students.  I can then post the link for my students in Canvas without using the External Tool function.

Long story short: Copy the link for the document, then add NEW between the ‘edit’ and ‘?’ in the address line.  See the video below for a better explanation with more important details! :)

This is what I get every time I do that process. I’ve been at it for hours now. Feeling defeated!

How frustrating!  Maybe it’s blocked at work since it’s on YouTube.  Here’s the written part of the transcript that should help:

1. Find the Document you want to share
2. Go to the top bar and press ‘File’ and ‘Publish’
3. Click ‘Generate Link’
4. Paste that link into a web browser (or Word doc… that some times easier for editing the link)
5. In that link, there’s a phrase like ‘……..edit?…...’
6. Between the EDIT and the ? character, type ‘New’
7. Copy this new link and share that with your class.

Here’s an example of where to put the ‘New’ part:

Template:

https://lucid.app/lucidspark/da004bc5-e141-41f7-b083-5e534b5d044f/edit?invitationId=inv_27c10c3f-cf23-4d02-854c-a09c76a6327a

Here’s where you would add ‘New’ (half way thru, I changed the text to yellow between the ‘edit’ and ‘?’

https://lucid.app/lucidspark/da004bc5-e141-41f7-b083-5e534b5d044f/editNew?invitationId=inv_27c10c3f-cf23-4d02-854c-a09c76a6327a

Does that work?

Thank you for your help! The video worked fine but that is the error I get on every Lucid document when I use those steps. Templates, nontemples, shared to view, shared to edit, published and nonpublished. I just can’t figure out why!

Ok - that’s actually even more frustrating!

I just did some playing around… I can get that screen when I’m just sharing a page.  

But, when I changed it into a template (doesn’t do anything to the document… just makes it a master template).  THEN, I published it and added the New.  That worked!  (I also played with the capital N vs the lower case n… doesn’t seem to matter) ;) 

Does it fix it for you??

Does this only work with Lucidcharts? I have tried it on every single document, all Sparks, and each one of them get that error. Templates or not. I follow the steps to a T! I’ve tried the NEW and EDITNEW ways and none work.

@Ellery Goudy Can you please send a temporary Support PIN for one of thr documents you are trying? This will allow me to take a closer look at the issue you’re experiencing. The Support PIN is only usable by Lucid Support agents, so it is okay to share publicly here. For more information on generating a Support PIN, check out this Help Center article.

Here it is! bZ5g94QCqMSc

It should work with Lucidchart and Lucidspark, and with templates.

One thought to check is whether you have the right permissions for the document. For example, is the document one that you created or have full edit permissions on? Or is it one that someone else created, and possibly didn’t share with full permissions to you?

Similarly, if the folder that holds the document is one that you don’t have permissions to create new documents in, that could cause a failure I suspect. Or if you are on a free account, and there’s a limit on how many documents you can create, it might give an error?

Just a few additional ideas for how it could cause a symptom like you’re describing :/