Components that include links to page/frames in current files don't work as expected

Hi! My team is working on a project brief template that would include links to design figma/figjam files, and I’m experiencing some issues with links to pages/frames in current design don’t translate properly when used as an instance in our catalog figma file.

We use the template in the individual design file, which would include the link to this specific design file because we want to share this in different places, then create a component out of it so we only need to update in one place.

While in the individual design file, the links usually say something like “Go To blablabla” instead of “Open blabla” if we were linking to a different file.

However, we ran into issues when we publish the component and insert the instance to our master catalog file, then all the links to pages/frames in this specific design files all became either not working or says “Frame in this file”, or it would point to the corresponding page in the catalog file. For example, if I link page 1 of the design file, then it would point to the page 1 of the catalog file.

Then if I use the same link but update the instance, everything is working properly.

I’m assuming this happens because when I link to current page where the component lives, it’s not mapping to a specific file but rather THE file I’m in, so all links are relevant to the file I’m working on.

Is there a way to make sure the links stay as they are when using instances? I’ve tried the page link, frame link, none of them seem to work properly. File link would automatically default to the first page, so at this point I don’t even know if I’m getting a bug lol!

Sorry for the ramble and thank you so much if anyone could shed some light on what I can do.