Method to disable the auto-Contextual Panel flyout

Question

This new Contextual Panel flyout panel feature opens on me constantly, and is extremely frustrating.

My diagrams make extensive use of the AWS objects from the Standard Library. Every time I select an object that Contextual Panel will fly out from the right edge, regardless of how many times I close it. There is no view menu option to disable this thing. I do NOT need to edit the data properties of these objects every time I select one. When working on a smaller screen, it is especially annoying.

To reproduce, create a new diagram and drop any of those AWS objects from the Standard Library. It’s likely triggered by others as well.

Please provide a method to disable this panel display. Most straightforward approach is to make it an optional toggle like the Layers panel.

Thanks!

Ambar D · Answer

Hi ​@jeff.farnsworth,this is a great question and one that I’ve seen as top of mind forother users too!I’m sorry for the frustration here but I’m happy to help.I noticed that you first posted in this thread, but I’d love to provide the same resource here so that it’sreadily available -I’d recommend selecting the ‘Fullscreen’ button option at the bottom right of your Lucidchart canvas.Fullscreen option to temporarily disable contextual panelAs shown in the GIF below, dragging AWS shapes onto the canvas (or selecting them) automatically opens the contextual panel as you’ve experienced. I can understand your feelings about this!Here’s a solution: To temporarily disable the contextual panel from appearing, you can select the ‘Fullscreen’ option in the bottom right-hand corner of your document. This will allow you to drag AWS shapes onto the canvas (and select them) without the contextual panel always popping up.Select fullscreen option to temporarily disable contextual panel and drag AWS shapes onto the canvasFor extra clarity here, completely disabling the contextual panel from ever appearing, by using a toggle as you mention, is not currently supported in Lucid. But that’s a great idea! We’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products.Other users have submitted this as product feedback in the post below, in the Product Feedback space of this community! Our product development team is scoping out possibilities with this feature, and we’d love to hear from you if you have further feedback on this! If you’d like, feel free to upvote the post below and add a comment letting the team know what you’d like to see in this experience.I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions and I’d be happy to help!

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