Due to size restrictions, which apply to most output devices (letter, A4, etc.), it often happens that a business process may have to be spread over several Visio sheets within the same process level. These business processes sometimes contain elements (e.g. Lanes), which need to appear on more than one sheet, though they represent only a single element instance within the whole business process.

The Process Modeler supports the extension of “Identical Shapes” for a selected list of elements, like Lane, Pool, Data Object and Group. This way, several Visio shapes may represent the same element within the business process. These Visio shapes are then called identical and share the same attributes, though they have multiple representations within the Visio drawing.

The Go to Identical operation in the context menu or in the Attribute Explorer may be used to jump to all Identical Shapes.