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David H101
David H101
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Access the API programmatically

Hello I'm looking at this page and just wanting to confirm my understanding of the following paragraph: "Authorization must happen in the browser because a user must give consent for the client to access their information. For this reason the authorization request cannot be made from Postman curl or some other HTTP client." Is there really no way to access the API programmatically? Thank you!

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Michael B
Michael BLucid product team
posted in Lucid for Developers
Generating long lasting OAUTH tokens in Lucid

Hello World! My name is Michael Bowers and I am the team lead for Lucid’s External Api team. I am extremely excited to begin building our community and work directly with you to enable Lucid to help take your vision to the next level. To do that I would like to start with our most asked question: Developers exploring our APIs often say to us “An OAuth token is required to use your endpoints and a user needs to manually authorize the creation of this token via a browser. These tokens expire every hour… is there a way to build a long-living application on your API that doesn’t require a user/manual intervention every hour?”. Good news. There is a way! With our APIs you can build an application that requires user intervention just once and can then run forever without any further user action by generating refresh tokens. This can be done by requesting the offline_access scope when obtaining the initial OAuth token. Including this scope will cause a refresh token to be provided in the Crea

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Michael B
Network A
Network A
asked in Lucid for Developers
Is LucidChart Scriptable?

I'd like to create a button on the master page that would take the viewer to the "last page viewed". This is an important element in building a dynamic multi-page document that can be navigated effortlessly. The "Page" action is useful to a point but it does not offer the ability to "remember" where the user "came from". Often a "destination" page may be viewed from several different starting points. It makes sense that the "starting point" could be captured as a variable and used in an action to "return to the previous page". If this is not already built into LucidChart can LucidChart be scripted using Javascript?

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Jesse B
Jesse B
asked in Lucid for Developers
Dynamic attributes within an object

Is there a way to show a dynamic list of attributes within an object? For example consider the following objects described by 2 different models belonging to 2 different teams:   "Box" "Box"ID (id) ID (id)Label (string) Recipient (string)Contents (list:Contents) Address 1 (string) Address 2 (string) City (string) State (string) ZIP (int)   Is there a way to put each "Box" object on a separate layer but have the "Box" object look as follows when both layers are selected?   "Box"ID (id)Label (string)Contents (list:Contents)Recipient (string)Address 1 (string)Address 2 (string)City (string)State (string)ZIP (int)   I'm looking for a solution where each of my 2 teams only have to edit their own version (layer?) of the object and have the combined list

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