This integration is intended as a way to bring diagrams you've created in or exported to Lucidchart into Ardoq.

Objects in a diagram are intended to be imported as Ardoq components and the connecting lines between objects are intended as references. Users can further refine their import using a custom prompt to suggest additional details to consider.

As an AI-based feature, you will need to manually enable the feature by going to Preferences > Organizational settings > Settings, selecting the Features tab, and toggling on the Lucid Importer.

Once enabled, the Visual Importer can be found on the Integrations dashboard (Home > Imports & integrations).

To start the analysis, you'll need to select a Lucidchart diagram with the Select document button on the right panel.

The workspace selector sets the scope for the AI analysis. The component and reference types from the selected workspaces will be used in the diagram processing to automatically determine the types for the references being brought in.

Once the relevant workspaces have been selected, run the analysis with Analyze data.

After the analysis has completed, you'll be presented with the discovered components and references. We recommend verifying that the AI interpretation was correct.

The visual importer has options to create any missed components and references, as well as to delete falsely identified ones.

The results are organized as components and their outgoing references. You can expand a component to see its references and add any news ones.

Components that were originally exported from Ardoq to Lucidchart contain Ardoq IDs and will be identified as already existing in your workspaces.

As these components already have defined types, the importer will pre-populate them and prevent you from making changes to the component type.

The visual importer is designed around importing diagrams that were originally exported from Ardoq into Lucidcharts. However, the flexibility of the solution allows you to ingest a wide variety of non-Ardoq diagrams into Ardoq as components and references. Keep in mind that extremely large diagrams may fail analysis due to limitations in AI models.

Once you've made adjustments to your import, you can bring in any new and existing components into a scenario by clicking the Import to Scenario button.

Scenarios serve as a staging ground before bringing in the data created from the diagram directly into Ardoq.

Once you're confident about the state of the scenario, you can merge it to the mainline data.