Blue Prism has the option included for creating multiple references to a single process or object as part of its multi-team-environment feature. To create a new reference you hold down the Control key while dragging a process or object to a new group. This creates a reference to the same process, meaning changes made when accessing the process via one instance are effective on the other instance. This is confusing since Control + drag is a commonly used way of creating a separate copy of something (for example files or folders in WIndows). When you create a duplicate in Windows via Ctrl + drag, the new instance is separate from the original and any changes made to one instance are only made to that one. If you want to create a copy of a process in BP you have to open the process and then use 'Save As' which is not necessarily obvious or the simplest method. I would recommend that two new menu items be added to the right-click menu for processes and objects:
Create new reference; This would do what Ctrl + drag does now, creating a new reference to the same process. I would add some identifying feature to the process icon to be able to identify these multi-reference process from a standard, unique process.
Create copy; This would create a separate and distinct copy of the process without the need to open the process.
The function of Ctrl + drag could then be switched to be in line with the more common use of creating a copy although I appreciate that this change may cause confusion for those already familiar with the function.
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