Hello Fellow Figmers, I am giving a presentation where I have a few slide on a Figma Slides deck for a group presentation. Part of my prototype requires me to reset the prototype during the presentation to go through several flows from the same start point. It appears in online explainers that it is simply pressing “r” (which is my go to if im presenting a prototype the non-slides way, and in that scenario it works fine!). No go! it doesn’t work! I press “r” while on the slide with the prototype (i am using Macbook Air as the overlay option) and it utterly doesnt work. For some dumb reason, if I hit R enough times (like 3 times?) it DOES reset the whole PRESENTATION (not desired effect!!!). to not be able to reset an embedded prototype in a presentation seems like a big miss and I hope theres some way you folks may know of to get around this issue? I may have to make a hidden square on each prototype frame to bring the prototype back to first frame… but I really shouldnt have to do this. any thoughts?
Cannot reset embedded prototype in slide presentation mode (!)
Figma can we solve this please.
I also need to restart the prototype whilst presenting and ‘r’ does not work. Without this it’s hard to present the prototype within the slides and makes the feature somewhat redundant as I have to go back to my design file.
Hi there,
Thanks for reaching out. I'm checking with our internal team. I will get back to you when I have anything I can share with you.
Thanks for your patience.
Toku
I have the same problem and am now building a restart button within the prototype. Hopefully the R shortcut will be implemented soon.
I found a workaround. You’ll need to create a “Restart” frame in your embedded prototype.
I initially tried to work around this by pointing hidden clickable elements to go back to the starting frame. For some reason, this is bugged as well. You can’t have multiple frames linking back to the starting frame in a prototype. Slides does not seem to like that. Instead, you’ll need to create a loop in your prototype with your last slide linking to a dedicated frame to restart the prototype.
Hope this helps. This has been frustrating for me to figure out.
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