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May 17, 2024
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How to find the owner of a locked template with an uneditable central frame

  • May 17, 2024
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Hi,

Why can a user not say “ok I’m departing on this corporate template because I need to create a variant” and then work in an unobstructed way?

I’m kind of freaked out right now because I’ve lost a significant amount of work not being able to separate or control my content within an overly locked template. 

I wasn’t aware I was falling into this trap for the first 8-9 hours of work…  I already made a copy of the file to start working separately, as well as toggling back and forth between lucidspark and lucidchart to try to regain control of my visual story being conveyed.

This is very disappointing to put this large an amount of effort into working to express an overall vision and direction into a document that I can now not expand a frame box element slightly to accommodate the content, its redlined with x’s at the boundary edges, locked menu disabled, it cant be constructed over, etc.

How do I track down the owner of this template? I can only imagine the conversation when I finally track them down and randomly approach them.  How is this supposed to work in large company environments?


A template is a starting point to expressing a thing.  If this kind of locked down visual element thing is present in a template to create a document that a user can be wooed into, ​​​​ there needs to be RED BANNER stating “you will not be able to make changes to basic shapes in this document” for users.  This kind of "over-powering” template publishers this way fosters negative user experience. I’ve been going in circles progressively in the UI, and really don't feel like this is something I want to ever randomly repeat experiencing in a tool that is supposed to foster visual communication and collaboration.


 

Best answer by Amelia W

@ToddG I agree, the context you provided will be super helpful for our Product Teams. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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Leianne C
Lucid support team
December 1, 2025

Hi ​@Mark E, thank you for continuing this post and sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with your document. To confirm my understanding, did you convert the document in question to a template then converted it back to a normal document? If your document is shared with collaborators it is possible that another collaborator made this change. You may be able to locate when this occurred in the document by exploring the Revision History and restoring a previous version of the document.

If that is not the case, could you please share a temporary Document Support PIN for this document? This will help me take a closer look at what’s going on. This PIN is safe to post in this thread because it is only accessible by members of the Lucid support staff. You can find steps for generating a Support PIN in this Help Center article

Thanks in advance for your help and patience. Please let us know if you have any additional questions!