Lucidchart is the intelligent diagramming application that empowers teams to clarify complexity, align insights, and build the future—faster.  Within Lucidchart, there are many functions that allow teams to customize their experience for their business.

We are delighted to continue our partnership with Salesforce by offering a new course on Trailhead: Diagramming Essentials.

Trailhead is the captivating way to learn in-demand skills, earn credentials, and connect with a global community. It’s free and gives you access to helpful tools to jumpstart your career or make your next big move.

Salesforce users can use our new shape library to design and visualize their Salesforce architecture in Lucidchart. This allows them to ensure design principles and continuity across teams and partners, making seamless collaboration even easier.

In this blog post, we will share the benefits of using Lucidchart with Salesforce, what’s new in our shape library, and why you should enroll in the new Trailhead course.

Enhanced functionality

Our Salesforce shape library is able to support all the necessary Salesforce shapes to build even the most complex architecture diagrams. 

When using this library, you will have access to:

• Toggle configurations on and off.
• Add and remove attributes.
• Snap icons into place.
• Nest cards inside one another.

Our library also supports many of the standard icons used in Salesforce architecture diagrams including:

• Generic product icons
• Industry icons
• Platform services icons
• Common Salesforce icons
• Exclusive Salesforce logo icon shapes

The enhanced capabilities of the shape library are designed to help you standardize best practices, ultimately saving you time while moving projects forward.

Seamless alignment

By using the shape library across projects and teams, users are able to save time during the development process while still illustrating key connections and relationships. 

Saving time and increasing productivity? It’s a win-win.

Lucidchart and Salesforce are truly a dynamic duo, offering many benefits including:

• Alignment
• Customization
• Clarity
• Efficiency

By providing consistent, visual alignment, teams across the Salesforce ecosystem are able to build new resources according to best practices and stay connected.

How to get started

Once you try out the Lucidchart course on Trailhead, it’s time to explore the shape library for yourself. Here’s how you can get started:

1. Select one of our Salesforce architecture diagram templates, or insert a blank Lucidchart document.
2. Click on the Shapes header on the top, left-hand side.
3. Scroll down in the Standard Libraries and select "Salesforce Architecture Diagrams."
4. Select "Use Selected Shapes."
5. Instantly start diagramming.

Gone are the days where you have to settle for disorganization and miscommunication among teams. With the shape library for Salesforce diagrams, Lucidchart empowers you to increase clarity while staying optimized. What are you waiting for?