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Add Universal Process Notation (UPN) shapes to the standard shapes library

Related products:Lucidchart

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Universal Process Notation (UPN) is another business process modeling format. It’s simpler than BPMN and it has been adopted by Salesforce which means that it’s very popular in my world.

I would love to see a standard library to support UPN. Here’s a few resources that describe how it works. It uses only a couple of shapes with some special behaviors.

Resources explaining UPN:

https://unitfly.com/insights/what-is-universal-process-notation-upn/

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/Universal-Process-Notation-UPN#:~:text=UPN%20was%20developed%20in%20the,Software%20acquired%20Nimbus%20in%202011.)
https://elements.cloud/blog/upn/

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Hi, thanks for this idea! We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

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Ambar D

Lucid community team

Thank you @markoanic for taking the time to add your feedback and support for this feature to be implemented!

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faraz.khan@allcloud.io

Hello -- this continues to be the biggest limitation from LucidChart. At the very least, a set of objects/shapes that support UPN would be welcomed to start. A process square with space for “Persona” and “System” is really all that’s needed.

It doesn’t have to drill down like elements.cloud, or use reusable Personas/Systems just yet, however that is a big benefit of elements.cloud.

Additionally, pulling in salesforce metadata would be cool, but again, not 100% needed vs. simple UPN notation.

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Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @faraz.khan@allcloud.io, thank you for adding your feedback to this thread. I certainly understand why this is important I appreciate you taking the time to let us know how you’d benefit from this.

The product team regularly reviews feedback within threads like these in the Product Feedback space as they continue to research product enhancements and improvements.

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Micah

Lucid community team

Idea→Future Consideration

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CCO

Yes, we are using LucidChart because Salesforce provides its standard data model templates on your platform. It would be great, to also be able to easily access and use UPN, even basic, shapes, since UPN is the defacto standard Salesforce recommends.

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Ambar D

Lucid community team

Thanks for showing your support for this feature and letting us know just how valuable this would be to your work @CCO!

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