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Bind properties of sub components


Onno_Willems

I have a main component that has several instances of a sub component in it.
The sub component has several properties. I can expose these. but I am looking for a way to have the main component have the same property, and flipping that would flip the same property on all sub ones. A kind of property binding really.

A really simplified example attached: the main has 5 sub id components. On the main, I would like to set 1 property to ‘icon’ so all the subs change into icon mode. Is something like this possible?

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y_toku
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 2383 replies
  • January 25, 2024

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out! It seems that this feature isn’t currently offered by Figma. However, I’ll confirm with our team internally and get back to you if there’s any information or updates I can provide.

Thanks,
Toku


Onno_Willems
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  • 10 replies
  • January 25, 2024

Thank you!
Is there any other design strategy I can follow here? I often have a situation where I want to place things in a child component, because it will probably require changes in the future. And when you have multiple such childs in a parent it really becomes a hassle.


r_sh
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  • 25 replies
  • January 17, 2025

I have a similar question. I’m working on a large component which contains some nested instances-- all of which have a shared property (A). These nested instances belong to different component sets but Property A and all its values are identical.

When I take an instance of the main component, I would like to have an option to link/bind/globally change Property A for all nested components at once.

 

The current workflow requires me to wade through many nested properties and change them all individually (find Nested Instance 1 and change Property A to value b, find Nested Instance 2 and change Property A to value b, find Nested Instance 3 and change Property A to value b, etc). And, this is not something that variables can address.

 

@y_toku are there further updates on this?


Simon32
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  • 7 replies
  • February 8, 2025

This would be very helpful to simplify the usage of more complex UI kits and Design systems in Figma since it would allow for having a complete set of exposed properties available on the top level component. Now our fellow designers have to know which properties they are allowed to override and deep-select those.

@y_toku  - Do you have any updates on this from the team?


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