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November 28, 2023
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Allow "change shape" for all shape types

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  • November 28, 2023
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I was confused that I could only right-click and change a shape on certain shapes. The functionality seems inconsistent to me as a user. As a user, I would like to be able to replace or “change shape” on any shape on the canvas. To me it doesn’t matter if the shape is imported or from another library, they’re all shapes that I might want to change at a later point.

To extend this, I would like to be able to select multiple instances of the same shape and be able to replace those instances with a new shape. So, if I have 3 shapes that are all the same, but in different locations and different sizes, I can can select all 3 shapes, right-click, select “Change Shape” and have the option to change those 3 shapes to another shape in any library I have access to.

I previously believed this was a bug: 

 

Pinned Reply By Micah

Hi all, writing to provide clarity on the status of this post with an update from our product development team!

 

“Change shape” is available for the following shape libraries:

 

  • Shapes 
  • Flowchart Shapes
  • Geometric Shapes (partial)
  • Mind Mapping
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS Arch
  • Circuit Diagrams
  • Enterprise Architecture 
  • Entity Relationship
  • Site Maps

“Change shape” is not supported for the following shape libraries, and addition of this ability isn’t currently prioritized, but we’re still very interested in your feedback.

  • BPMN 2.0

  • Data Flow
  • Dynamic Shapes
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Geometric Shapes
  • Process Engineering
  • Sales Account Map
  • Salesforce Architecture
  • Server Rack Diagrams
  • Standard
  • UML
  • Value Stream

If any of these libraries in particular, and the “change shape” ability within them, is important to you, please let us know more in this thread.  

 

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Micah
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