How to create a Swimlane diagram?

Swimlane diagrams can help you improve the clarity of your process flows, responsibilities and ideas, simply by arranging them under different categories. These categories may be the different departments at your workplace or even the different stakeholders within your process. 

How to add and delete Swimlanes

1. Click on the + button and open the Shapes panel
2. Type Swimlane using the search option
3. Select either the horizontal or vertical swimlanes as per your preference

If you wish to increase or decrease the number of swimlanes:

1. Select the swimlane shape
2. Use the add and delete options on the floating toolbar as shown in the GIF below

Adding and deleting swimlanes

Note: Swimlanes are added to and deleted from the right-hand side end of the shape

How to change the width of swimlanes?

1. Select the swimlane shape
2. Use the anchor points on the right-hand side of the swimlanes to adjust the width of the lanes separately

Changing the width of swimlanes

How to add text to swimlanes?

1. Click on the + button and select the Text option 
2. Click on the area of the swimlane in which you would like to add the text to
3. Fill in your text and rotate if necessary

Add text to swimlanes

How to add images or other shapes to swimlanes?

You can simply drag and drop to add any images or shapes to your swimlane.

Add shapes and images to swimlanes

How to add colour to your swimlane?

1. Select the swimlane shape
2. Add a suitable colour using the Style palette from the floating toolbar or using the Fill Color and Line Color options from the Shape Properties Panel

Colour your swimlanes