Lucidchart Integration

Overview

Lucidchart is a cloud-based diagramming platform that offers solutions for visual communication and real-time collaboration. The Lucidchart integration with LeanIX allows Lucidchart users to create, preview, open, edit, import, and export a broader range of diagrams to visualize data stored in LeanIX. Within your LeanIX workspace, Lucidchart is available as one of the diagram options.

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This out-of-the-box integration is available for Team and Enterprise accounts.

Setting Up Lucidchart Integration in LeanIX

To set up the Lucidchart Integration, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Diagrams tab.

2. Click + New Diagram.

3. Click Start setup now on the Lucidchart Integration overlay.

   

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   Each user needs to set up the integration in the LeanIX workspace via their own profiles to access Lucidchart.

Creating and Importing Diagrams from Lucidchart

Once the setup is complete, users with their workspace connected to Lucidchart can create new diagrams directly within Lucidchart or import existing documents from Lucidchart into LeanIX.

To create or import diagrams from Lucidchart, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Diagrams tab.

2. Click + New Diagram.

3. On the Lucidchart overlay, depending on your need, click Create Lucidchart or Import existing document from Lucidchart.

   1. Choosing to create prompts you to provide a title for the document and leads you to Lucidchart.
   2. Choosing to import leads you to Lucidchart, where you can select the documents to import.

   

You can share the imported diagrams with others in the workspace or add them to dashboards for analysis and communication purposes. However, diagrams imported from Lucidchart cannot be edited within LeanIX; editing is only possible in Lucidchart.

Exporting Diagrams From LeanIX to Lucidchart

To export diagrams from LeanIX to Lucidchart, follow these steps:

1. Open the diagram you need to export.

2. From the menu in the top right corner, select Export.

3. Select Lucidchart Document. The diagram opens in Lucidchart.

   

Exporting the diagram creates a public copy of the diagram in the LeanIX workspace with the following naming convention: “Lucidchart export of OriginalReportName”. This copy can only be edited in Lucidchart, providing similar capabilities as in LeanIX for accurately representing the enterprise architecture landscape.

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The edit permissions of the original diagram are not retained in Lucidchart.

Exporting Diagrams From Lucidchart

To export diagrams from Lucidchart, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to File > Export

2. Select the desired file type for the export.

3. An overlay may prompt you to share the diagram as a link instead; if not, proceed and click Download.

   

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To learn how to use Lucidchart, see Lucidchart.