Hi Karl, 

Thanks for posting in the Lucid Community! 

You may be able to import these process maps as an svg using our add custom shapes functionality. For steps on importing an svg as a custom shape, check out this Help Center article. 

Thanks!
 

Thanks Ssahagun for your suggested answer,

There is a lot more to a Promapp diagram than the, “shape” with an SVG.  As I stated in my question, there is a lot of metadata available with the diagram hence the different export types.  While xpdl should import like bpmn, Lucid doesn’t like it.

Certainly, I can import the SVG as a picture, which has the following restrictions:

1. It comes in as one shape, instead of being interpreted as separate shapes in the diagram; (no smarts about the import)
2. There is no text interpretation, so I can’t “update” the diagram ever, it stays a picture
3. I can’t move the shapes around as it’s one shape

Therefore, it’s pretty useless importing a process map from another program into Lucid because it can never be updated again.  Someone will need to replicate the diagram in Lucid for it to be maintained.

I’m guessing that the import process has to go through another tool to make it compatible with Lucid, hence why I’m reaching out to the community for help.

Regards,

Karl.

Hi ​@Karl Angel 

Thanks for your post! Unfortunately, this isn’t currently supported in Lucid, but we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products. If you’re willing to share, we’d love to hear more details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience within this thread. I’ve also converted this post to an idea so that it’s visible to others within the Product Feedback section of the community - from here, they can upvote it and add details of their own.

Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

https://community.lucid.co/welcome-to-the-lucid-community-15/what-happens-to-my-feedback-5438