Changing one symbol into a different one? eg Lane into Role Lane?

Hello,

The main issue is that Lane and Role Lane are based on different object types in ARIS. Therefore, it is not possible simply to change the symbol of an existing Lane occurrence into a Role Lane.

In theory, this could be automated with a custom script that replaces the Lane with the corresponding Role Lane while preserving the model layout and the objects placed inside it. However, Enterprise BPMN Collaboration Diagrams have rather specific model structures, and I am not aware of any standard ARIS script that performs this conversion.

The most important measure is to prevent this situation from occurring again. The regular Lane object should be restricted or removed from the designers’ method filter so that only Role Lanes are available for modeling.

For existing models, replacing the Lane manually should normally not be a major task. It is also unlikely that designers have created many separate occurrences of the same regular Lane object, so the amount of manual correction should be manageable.

Regards,
Alex

Hello Weronika,

Alexander is right about the difference in object types:

• lane symbols in BPMN process diagrams (ST_BPMN_LANE_1) are of object type lane (OT_BPMN_LANE) whereas
• a role lane symbol (ST_ROLE_LANE) is of object type role (OT_PERS_TYPE)

But you could try the SAG standard script "Replace object types", which lets you select for source and target the object type, symbol type and connection types to be replaced. 

But please be aware that it replaces all objects of the selected source type in the database. 

Regards, Martin