Allow "Change Shape" for any shape on the canvas

What about Change Shape for “My Libraries”?

could we include it on the list please?

@miguel.pinto Thanks for continuing this thread! To confirm, are you referring to the ability to change shapes within/to/from shapes in your own custom libraries?

Lets say I add a shape from the Flowchart library. If I select the swap shape option, I can swap it with ANY shaper from the flowchart library correct?

In a similar way, if I create my own library with my own shapes, I should be able to swap those shapes with ANY other shape from the same library.

Ultimatelly, any shape from any library should be swappable by ANY shape from any other library. But if there is some kind of technical constrain for that, at leat it should be possible to at least replace it to a shape from the library it belonged to.

Now, theres the funny case were I use a shake from a given library, modify it and add it to a custom library I created… Today, it will still only allow swap with a shape from the original library it was in, and not any other shape from my library where I added it.

Makes sense ?

@miguel.pinto Thanks for this detailed explanation! I understand what you’re describing - we appreciate you taking the time to explain what you’d expect to see with this feature. 

A strong upvote for adding mutability to UML shapes. Specifically, there are three separate Class shapes with one, two, and three sections. When modeling structure diagrams I will often start with a bare class and then add attributes and/or operations. Since these are separate shapes (vs display options on a single shape), there’s no way to do this in place.

@phalverson Thank you so much for this excellent detail! I understand how this would be a significant improvement for your workflow with UML. Noted!

want data flow and uml shapes

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Without the ability to change shapes from one to another, it seems almost pointless to import maps from other tools (e.g. Visio) if you have to manually change all the shapes. 

In my case, I have deprecated process maps in Visio and am trying to transfer them to Lucid and comply with BPMN 2.0. Even if I import the map, there’s no easy way to change the imported shapes to BPMN shapes -- I might as well recreate the map from scratch. This costs a ton of unnecessary time.

It’s kind of surprising this feature isn’t implemented for BPMN shapes considering there is considerable BPMN learning content on the Lucid website.

I’m in agreement with Zach and in a very similar boat.  We want people to standardize on BPMN 2.0 and if we can’t make it easy to transition from existing shapes to BPMN 2.0 shapes its going to be a difficult sell.  

Hi ​@Zach Fields and ​@Astrid_G, thank you both for adding your detailed feedback to this thread. I can certainly understand why this feature is important. Our product development teams are regularly reviewing feedback within this space of the community as they continue to research new features and product enhancements.