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Freeze swimlane & timeline titles

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  • October 25, 2021
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Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • April 24, 2024
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Karen T102
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I am using Lucidspark to create a program board for all of the work across workstreams/teams by sprint, to better identify dependencies and work against milestones. It’s very difficult to go over the board with teams without this feature in place; and also difficult to do this beyond a few sprints. Being able to lock certain parts of the table would be amazing in helping faciliate this better; it would also make it wasier to do user story mapping (see Avion as a great example of how this works!)


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Just wondering if there has been any progression on this potential feature please - it is very laborious and often confusing to the client when walking them through swim flows as you have to keep reminding them of which lane we are in - even as the person who creates the flow i still sometimes need to remind myself of which lane i am in and so have to scroll back to the top - i suspect that it is adding about 30% extra time on to my mapping process - and so would imagine similar when presenting


Micah
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  • Lucid community team
  • September 26, 2024

@sarahgeoghegan Thank you for this additional context - I understand how this would be an improvement to your workflow. I don’t have an update to share on a possible timeline for implementation here, but we remain incredibly grateful for your insight!


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  • October 22, 2024

Agree this is still very much needed!


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Adding my voice to the pool. We started using this software for our sprint meetings last week and it’s already the number one requested feature. I’m sure it’s not easy to implement but it’s one of the few clear places that Lucid doesn’t compete with other visual diagramming software or built-in workflow tools. 


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  • April 7, 2025

Agree that this feature is really needed! Not having this feature makes it very hard to present process maps in workshops or review sessions. I find myself having to constantly scroll back and forth and I lose engagement from participants. Please prioritize this.


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • April 9, 2025

Hi ​all, thank you so much for leaving your upvotes and adding your comments with additional feedback to this thread! Upvotes and comments with additional feedback are the best methods to indicate support for this. I can certainly understand why this would be beneficial.


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  • September 9, 2025

Really need this feature - I have large process docs with both vertical and horizontal swim lanes it would be SO much easier and faster to manage to have this freeze titles of lanes feature


Zuzia S
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  • Lucid community team
  • September 12, 2025

Hi there, I completely understand why this would be helpful and I’m sorry for the inconvenience! Thank you so much for adding your comments with extra feedback and for giving your upvotes. This is the best way to show your support for this idea!


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  • February 3, 2026

4 years later and need some kind of way. I’ve run into a couple of meetings where the participants get confused on who owns what process. Would make the process easier to understand and follow with large process maps


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  • February 3, 2026

Yes please. I am working on some really large organisation process mapping and the ability to freeze the titles both vertically and horizontally would be a huge improvement for both creators, presenters and viewers. 


Ambar D
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  • Lucid community team
  • February 3, 2026

Hi ​@Payton and ​@scpot, thank you both for adding your feedback here and for showing your support for this feature. I certainly understand why this would be useful for your work, and I appreciate you taking the time to let us know just how important this is to you.

Our product team continues to review feedback in this space as they research new features.