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How do I propagate updates to 1 "section title" in page 1 to "section title" text in page 2

  • April 26, 2024
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Figma – 26 Apr 24

I’ve created a simple example to illustrate the question. In this figure, there are two pages, Page-1 and Page-2.

Both have the same text “Section title” below which the details of the section change because it is a multi-step interaction. (It’s a contrived mock to illustrate the point)

Now I want to change the text content of “Section title” to “Some new title” for example. Or let’s say I want to move the “Section title” by 10px to the right in page-1.

My question - I don’t want to manually apply the changes to Page-2. Is there a way to just change in Page-1 and have it propagate to Page-2 as well?

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Gleb
  • Gleb
  • Power Member
  • April 26, 2024

There is no way to do that. Only would be possible by writing a custom plugin.

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What if I turn the 1st thing into a component? Then I can just update the component and it will reflect everywhere. Isn’t it?

Gleb
  • Gleb
  • Power Member
  • April 26, 2024

Yes of course, but:

  1. Sections can’t be turned into components. If you replace a section with a component, components work completely different to sections, so you won’t be able to achieve anything that sections are made for.

  2. This:

This won’t be possible as changing position of a component doesn’t a affect the position of instances.

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I don’t what you meant by “Section” here. In my case it was just a “text box” with value “Section title”. What I was referring to (please see the attached Figma file) it was just a rectangle.

What is a section btw? I am new to Figma, not aware of that concept.

Gleb
  • Gleb
  • Power Member
  • April 27, 2024

I thought you were talking about Sections as in node type:

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I thought you used rectangles in place of Sections so you can make them into components to test.

I don’t fully understand the question. It’s hard to figure out what sections you are talking about here and how you want them to behave exactly:

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But yeah you can make the title or the whole thing into a component and it would update everywhere at once, that’s the purpose of components.

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