Hello Lucid Community! Welcome to 2023! It’s a new year full of new opportunities – and we hope to help you see and build your future with Lucid. This month we have new features releases popular conversations bug fixes and some new feature requests. Also check out our most important conversations to stay informed about the latest at Lucid and get even more value out of Lucidchart Lucidspark and Lucidscale!
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Most Popular Conversations
Here are the Lucid Community’s most popular posts from January! Check them out and keep the conversation going by asking a question or sharing a tip of your own.
- Circular Crop Workaround
- Looking to link file name or ideally tab name in the chart
- Using date data imported from excel for conditional formatting
Implemented Feature Requests
We heard you! Check out the latest changes to our products that you’ve been asking for:
Lucid Cards for Google Sheets: Import rows from Google Sheets as Cards in Lucidspark to brainstorm visually and work collaboratively in a free-form canvas. Learn more.
Lucid Cards for monday.com: Import monday.com items as Cards in Lucidspark to brainstorm visually and work collaboratively in a free-form canvas. Learn more.
New Dynamic Matrix functionality: Organize your board content just the way you want it and derive meaning and insights with our new Dynamic Matrix functionality. You can now define custom row or column-only modes—ideal for building Kanban boards and swimlanes—and customize the layout of your Dynamic Matrix by adding rows and columns and creating custom titles. Learn more.
📅New Events and Opportunities
Learn how to see and build your team’s future from Lucid experts in our new live and on-demand Training Labs! Upcoming highlights:
Getting Started with Lucidspark | Webinar: Join our Lucid product pros to learn how to use Lucidspark—an online collaborative whiteboarding tool—to up-level your team's collaboration to save time and ideate better solutions.
Tuesday January 31 2023 @ 2pm (CET) or @ 1pm (MT)
Tuesday February 14 2023 @ 1pm (MT)
Tuesday February 21 2023 @ 2pm (CET) or @ 1pm (MT)
Getting Started with Lucidchart | Webinar: Kick-start your diagramming journey by joining our Lucidchart product pros to learn how Lucidchart can help you visually communicate ideas information and processes.
Thursday February 2 2023 @ 11am (CET) or @ 11am (MT)
Thursday February 16 2023 @ 11am (MT)
Thursday February 23 2023 @ 11am (CET) or @ 1pm (MT)
✏️Top Feature Requests
The Lucid Community’s current most popular feature requests! If you’d like to see these in the future add your thoughts to our Lucidchart Lucidspark or Lucidscale feature request form. We’d also love to see your tips and workarounds in the threads linked below.
Product | Product Idea or Feature Request | |
1 | Lucidchart | Salesforce Integration and Org Chart compatibility |
2 | Lucidchart | Using Custom Shape Data values as hotspot links |
3 | Lucidchart | Creating a Circular Org Chart w/ Imported Data |
For more information on how these feature requests are used please refer to this “What Happens to My Feedback?” post.
📰 New Help Center Articles + Community Posts | Lucid Support Team
Peruse the latest changes to the Help Center and tips and tricks from the Lucid Support Team to stay up to date on your favorite features!
Lucidchart is great for visualizing architecture and creating a shared understanding. Check out our Architecture design tips using Lucidspark and Lucidchart!
Lucidspark provides a flexible canvas to capture customer insights in a shared space for team members to access – and with Lucidspark’s organizational features you can quickly identify common themes and trends in research. Check out our latest article on 3 steps to build and improve user journeys with Lucid (+ template)
🛠️ Lucid's development platform and public APIs
Calling all creators - build powerful integrations with the resources in Lucid’s Developer Portal! See your ideas bring your team together and build the future using our products customized to meet your needs. The Developer Portal includes documentation on APIs SCIM and formulas.
Check out the new Lucid for Developers community space dedicated to supporting and connecting our users working with the Lucid API and our most technical features!
🏗️Bug Fixes
Our development team has been hard at work! These issues are now resolved and you should be able to use these features without issue.
Issue | Details | |
1 | Resolved January 20th |
🔍Known Issues
Our development team is aware of the following issues - follow the threads linked below to stay tuned for updates!
Issue | Status | Details | |
1 | Inserting Google Doc into Lucidchart | Under investigation | Larger documents are more likely to encounter error so try inserting just a single page |
2 | Delete / Hide the John Doe's in a Shared Team Folder | Under investigation | We permanently delete the personal data of deleted users and their emails are updated to the John Doe format. |