This is the father of all shape object classes getElementHistory(name,recursive=True,sameType=False,showName=False) - returns the element mapped name history name: mapped element name belonging to this shape recursive: if True, then track back the history through other objects till the origin sameType: if True, then stop trace back when element type changes showName: if False, return the owner object, or else return a tuple of object name and label If not recursive, then return tuple(sourceObject, sourceElementName, [intermediateNames...]), otherwise return a list of tuple.