Hey Edward, thank you for reaching out! I’ve checked with the team internally. Publishing with . or _ prefixing will mark the component as being ignored from being published. So if it was previously published, it will be removed from the library. If it was never published, it will be ignored. Components that are not published should not be searchable in Assets.

Hey Gayani!

seeing you on the other side ! nice! Happy for you!

I have yet to find an answer to my initial request… What is the best way to manage “Core” components (which are used in Published bigger component) that should not be used on their own.

I’ve been searching a lot and no proper answers found…

This is not the case for me. I have done as you mentioned but my hidden components are still showing up in the assets panel. To Edwards question above, I also want to avoid having 2 component libraries for my design teams so that the core components aren’t visible in the assets panel.

I believe that the “.” and the “_” are not working anymore, seems like the tech was removed some how. Now every component will show in the library regardless of the prefix

Yeah I also noticed that the prefixes aren’t working anymore. It’s not hidden in Assets or Components search. My team primarily uses the Components search (shift + I) to find components from our design system. However, now I have to remove those components since they are shown in the list (e.g., “Button,” “.buttonTypes,” “.ButtonDeprecated,” etc). It’s confusing them. Does anyone know if there’s another way around this or are we just stuck with this until Figma adds the feature back in?

How can you see the list of hidden components from the publish?

You can find hidden assets in the “Publish Library” modal in the “Hidden” section.