Automatically create external links in an org chart

Question

I have created a tree structure using Org Chart from an Excel Import.

Each ‘employee’ box has a data set of variables imported from an external excel sheet.

One of those variables is called URL and on each employee it contains the full URL data for an external app I wish to link to for that employee.

If I highlight an individual box the ‘Link to’ menu option lights up. If I click that I can then manually copy the contents of that box’s URL variable into the ‘Link to’ dialog. Now that individual box is correctly linked to the external app! Success!

BUT I want to do that for all the 500+ boxes… is there away to make this automatic?

Zuzia S · Accepted Answer

Hi ​@Mike Sanders QR RRSMRthank you for posting in the Community and thank you ​@aparrishfor chiming in!​@Mike Sanders QR RRSMRUnfortunately, what you are trying to achieve is currently not supported in Lucid, and another user has submitted a similar idea:I highly recommend upvotingthis ideaand sharingany additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience.For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:Cheers!

aparrish · Answer

​@Mike Sanders QR RRSMRPlease check out “Manage data” under Create an org chart:https://help.lucid.co/hc/en-us/articles/16463330693268-Create-an-org-chart#update-refresh-replace-and-overlay-data-in-an-org-chartCurrently, Lucidchart doesn’t support directly linking the same dataset to multiple pages in a way that would automatically update all copies of the org chart when you refresh the data.To streamline this process, you’ll need to manually replace the dataset on each page whenever you want the org chart to be updated. While this does work for updating the data on different pages, it’s not as automatic as having a single link to the same dataset across multiple pages.Also, automatic refresh will not work with a data-based org chart. The other type of data linkingis the enterprise-only feature that allows you to upload a data set and freely associate it with any kind of shape, as well as refresh and replace it as needed using the general data management panel, but not in a data-based org chart.I recommend that you copy this over to the Product feedback section(https://community.lucid.co/ideas) so other users can vote on it, so that it can be considered for a future release.

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