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Flowchart Swim Lanes: Shapes Do Not Stay in Their Original Swim Lane When Moved

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  • July 21, 2026
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When working with Flowchart Swim Lanes, I often need to shift an existing process to the right to make room for additional steps at the beginning of the workflow. When I select multiple shapes and move them, some shapes do not remain in their original swim lane and are automatically reassigned to a different lane. This results in incorrect ownership and process mapping, requiring manual corrections. Shapes should remain associated with their original swim lane during repositioning unless they are intentionally moved into another lane. This issue is particularly noticeable in large process diagrams with many swim lanes and connected shapes.

July 24, 2026

Hi ​@mcarsenault, thank you for your feedback!

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
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  • Lucid community team
  • July 24, 2026

Hi ​@mcarsenault, thank you for your feedback!

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: