Freeze swimlane & timeline titles

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!)

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

@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!

Agree this is still very much needed!

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. 

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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. 

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.

Adding my comments to this thread….

I reached out to some contacts at Lucid just this week asking about this functionality - I would LOVE to be able to freeze the swim lanes and scroll around a Lucid document in a similar way to freezing the pane to scroll up/down and left/right in Excel!

I’m working with our Customer Journey team to map our full E2E customer journey, across all teams, with variations by product, and highlighting key touchpoints for our customers - as you can imagine, this has gotten very big already and being able to freeze the headers / swim lanes would really help us when navigating through the process.

This isn’t a new issue for me though - presenting process flows was a major part of a project I worked on last year and it was really difficult for stakeholders to follow a multi stream process once the swim lanes disappeared from view!

Please please work on this functionality so I can start to love Lucid as much as I love Excel! 😉

Hi ​@Clare-Louise.Edwards, this is excellent feedback!

Thank you for the details you’ve provided about how you’d use this feature and what you’re hoping to see. This thread remains the best place to stay up to date!