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When I assign an action to a nested instance in a component which sets a variable it doesn’t seem to work. The component’s variant changes, but the variable is never changed. There are no warnings or errors.

Screenshot from 2023-06-26 18.46.37@2x


When assigning the same action to the outer component it does set the variables.

Screenshot from 2023-06-26 18.47.10@2x


An example:

Figma – 26 Jun 23

This somehow feels related to the following limitation:



Variables can only be applied to top-level instances, and are not available for nested variant instances.



Mentioned here: Use variables in prototypes

Change the order of the actions so that “Set variable” is first in the list.

Thanks @tank666 that works!

Figma, Variables is a great idea and a step forward, but in its current state it’s very limited so much that it misses the point. For example, using variables and the new ‘wrap’ auto-layout, I managed to reduce 8 component variants to 1 frame. But, I am not able to turn this frame into a component since it contains two (nested) components, to which I wanted to be able to assign a variable to auto set THEIR selected variant… I know this is confusing, but the point is, VARIABLES should work EVERYWHERE, including nested components, otherwise in many cases it’s unusable. Is there a plan to fix this in the future?

thank you! Thank you!

Also, this does not seem to work on non-component, nested frames. I was attempting to create a drop-down list to filter search results and none of the interactions on the nested frames (list items) were getting triggered. FYI, I was only using Set Variable with each of the interactions.


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