Change to on instance not keeping text change

Hey @Thomas_Reimer, Thank you for confirming!

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@Junko3 apologies, I updated the links.

Hello @Thomas_Reimer, Thank you for updating the sharing settings of the file. I copied the design file to my draft and checked the prototype for the [PT_Card Button (Ibu morning)] instance.

It seems that the prototype interaction has two “Set variable” actions triggered by “On click”, but it doesn’t mention “Ibu/morning” in the action. I believe you might be referring to the Instance menu and component properties.

The instance menu “Swap Instance” allows you to find component replacements.
I confirmed on my side that if I choose the main component that doesn’t have the string variable “Ibu/morning” on its text layer, it will disappear after the swap.
You can learn more about it here: Swap components and instances

On the other hand, the string variable “Ibu/morning” is already attached to the [val] text layer nested in the [PT_Card Button (Ibu morning)] instance.
I tested on my end, even I change the properties to edit the instance, the variable will remain attached until detached.
More details can be found here: Edit instances with component properties

I hope the information above is helpful. Please let me know if I missed any additional points. We also welcome any insights or suggestions from our community!

@Junko3, thanks for the reply.

For clarification: The “PT_Card Button” is workaround to avoid mentioned problem. Here I have stacked several instances into a frame and just show/hide them with a boolean.

My problem is displayed in the upper right part of the pink section.

The noon tile is a normal Card Button instance with prop “warning?” attached to a boolean. The val layer is attached to the text variable noon with value “1”. And the warning val layer is attached to the noon-initial text variable with value “1”. Now, when you click on that noon tile, the num pad opens as overlay. You change the value in there to “0” and click on “Save”, what should happen is that the Noon Card Button updates its text variable for the value to “0” and due to the discrepancy in noon-initial and the new value, it is swapped to “warning?=true”. Despite having the noon text variable attached to the val layer, it will now show a standard Card Button with default values and no text variables attached. And that is my problem. It makes the text variable and boolean prop swap handling completely useless as I cannot dynamically adjust my designed elements in a prototype. That is very frustrating.