Hi Chris thanks for posting in the Lucidchart Community! What you are describing is the current expected behavior for grouped containers - the magnetization will only work for objects that are part of the same group as the container. When dragging a shape onto a container that is not part of the same group it will not get magnetized to move with the container. Temporarily ungrouping as you described is the workaround I would recommend for this. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you!

@eric r Thanks for confirming the expected behavior :)

I had this issue today and found another workaround.

Issue Setup

• Create container


• Create shape and add text such as MyLabel


• Put the shape in the container and group them


• Add shape 2


• Drop shape 2 on the grouped container


• Moving the grouped container does NOT move shape 2

Issue Workaround

• With shape 2 physically inside the container (but still not moving WITH the container...)


• Double click the group an select the container itself


• Turn off magnetized


• Turn on magnetized


• Escape to exit group


• Moving the container group now includes shape 2

Hi JT thanks for sharing your workaround and continuing this thread!