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Hi there

 

Is it possible to have a Lucidchart display anonymous cursors for collaborators that are logged in?

 

In some of our sessions I want everyone to contribution synchronously but not be biased by particular peoples actions. I know if they join without signing in it won’t display their name but these members will be logged in.

 

I can see that I can hide cursors however that only affects my personal session and not all collaborators.

 

Thanks

Hey @lukesimoncurtis -- thanks for posting! I would recommend checking out our Facilitator tools and decide if these might work well for you. When enabled, you should have the ability to anonymize all of your users cursors. 

Hope this helps!


Hi I have a question around this, the facilitator tools is not updated to include all of the ‘controls’ options. Is there a way to turn off cursors for everyone so it can be truly anonymous. 


Hi ​@rvassilatos, thanks for following up! 

It seems like the feature closest to what you would like to achieve here would be private mode, which allows collaborators to brainstorm and generate ideas without bias or influence from other collaborators through private mode sessions by hiding authors. 

Since this is available only in Lucidspark at the moment, when working on your Lucidchart document you can click on ‘Edit in Lucidspark’ and start a private mode working session from there, then switch back to Lucidchart when needed.

If this is still not exactly what you are looking for, we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. Please first search the Product Feedback section of this community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post.

Cheers!


Thank you for the response, I can see use cases for this. What separates my facilitation from the solution you provided is we want to be able to see what people are writing (so we can ask clarifying questions if needed for the user to then anonymously update their post it) without seeing who it is either in the cursor or the author on the post without relying on the users to manually turn off cursors themselves. 


Hi ​@rvassilatos, thanks so much for providing your detailed feedback in our community! I can see how this feature would be beneficial to our users.

Please make sure to add your idea here as your input is the most effective way to improve our products.

Cheers! 


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