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Sai_Rajesh
Sai_Rajesh
asked in Ask the Community
I have a question - wireframe within the instance vs component

I created a component and an instance of it. When I try to build a wireframe within the instance, it doesn’t work. However, when I build the wireframe within the component, it works. Why?

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Raphael_M
4 months ago
Felipe_San_Martin_G
Felipe_San_Martin_G
asked in Ask the Community
Soy el administrador pero no tengo permiso para acceder a mis archivos, todos estos archivos desaparecieron llevo días con este error

Soy el administrador pero no tengo permiso para acceder a mis archivos, todos estos archivos desaparecieron llevo días con este error

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dvaliao
Figmate
4 months ago
loner293
loner293
asked in Ask the Community
Componet variant editing

I cannot add the dropdown component to the calendar variant. Previously, when I worked with variants, I didn’t encounter such issues. I’ve tried ungrouping the inner layers, resetting the auto layout, detaching the dropdown component, and inserting it into the calendar variant, but none of these approaches have worked. Am I doing something wrong?

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loner293
4 months ago
Rosina_Brosi
Rosina_Brosi
asked in Ask the Community
Screen Reader only working on Text & Images

Hi there Figma Community I am currently working on a project, where one of the clients is a blind woman. For this I was looking into the accessibility features from Figma and was delighted, that Figma itself works with general screen reader. I noticed now, that screen reader only works with texts & images, but as we are still in a very abstract phase of the prototyping process, we have a lot of things like “lines as stand in for text blocks” etc. As far as I can see, I can’t manually mark something as “read this element in a screen reader” so it would be able to “see” the element to be read out loud and read the title of a marked frame/shape/etc. Or does anyone know about an option that I didn’t realise is there? If there isn’t an option like this, it would be great to have something like this in the feature, as for now prototypes already need to be very hi-fi to actually be able to share with a blind person, which, in my opinion, is too late in the process to create the best solut

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dvaliao
Figmate
4 months ago
Andrew_Ross
Andrew_Ross
asked in Ask the Community
Helvetica Neue issue

I am working on a project with a team that is using Helvetica Neue. The team has sent the Helvetica files to me, though when I install it on my end it registers as HelveticaNeue. When I go into the figma design file it identifies font in the file and the font I have on my machine as two different fonts. The design file registers as Helvetica Neue(with a space) for the team and HelveticaNeue(no spaces) for my profile. I have tried renaming the files to match. Uninstalling and reinstalling the font. Tried on the browser and the desktop app, but no luck. Has anyone else experienced this? The team is all using macs, while I am on a windows device, not sure if that has anything to do with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Devin_Foley
Figmate
4 months ago
Phu_Nguyen
Phu_NguyenNew Member
asked in Ask the Community
Inconsistent text baseline alignment in Auto Layout

As I have these settings: But when the icon instance stands in different order, it returns different alignment to the section Is that intended or is that a bug?

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dvaliao
Figmate
4 months ago
S
SlavaF
asked in Ask the Community
Need your kind help with prototyping

Hi everyone! Not new to Figma, but for some reason the following melts my brain =) I’d appreciate your kind help on how to best prototype it. Variables are ok, I have a paid account. Here is the situation: a button with 3 states (default, hover, pressed). When hovered, it should go to “hover” state. This is easy. Now, when pressed, I need the button text to change. A becomes “grayed out” and B becomes “active”. The button should stay in this state until I press it again (A becomes “active” and B becomes “grayed out”). What are the optimal ways to prototype this? Thanks a lot!

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S
4 months ago
Niv_Ovadia
Niv_Ovadia
asked in Ask the Community
My files got deleted somehow

Hello guys, I didnt use Figma in the last couple of months and i had couple of files that somehow got deleted after the last big update. I searched in all ‘recents’ ‘dafts’ ‘deleted drafts’ and in many more tabs and didnt find anything. it just doesnt exist. can someone help me find those files somehow? thank you 🙂

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ksn
Figmate
4 months ago
Nastya4
Nastya4
asked in Ask the Community
Draft Files Disappeared After Leaving a Team

Dear Figma Support Team, I recently encountered an issue with my account. After I left a team that was created by another person, all my personal drafts disappeared. This includes drafts that were created both before I was added to the team and after. I’ve checked everywhere, including the “Recent” section and the trash, but I am unable to locate them. These files were very important to my work, and I hope you can help me recover them. Could you please assist in resolving this issue?

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ksn
Figmate
4 months ago
Tomasz_Kozlowski
Tomasz_Kozlowski
asked in Ask the Community
How to leave from Educator plan?

Hi, Right now I’m in Educator plan & I can’t leave to Starter plan. How can I change my plan? Please help 😊

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ksn
Figmate
4 months ago
Bahtiyar_Ahmidi
Bahtiyar_Ahmidi
asked in Ask the Community
Get only user identity via OAuth

Hello friends, I noticed the only permission scope of Figma authentication via OAuth2 is “file_read”, but this is too much for me. In my circumstances, users are posting some data to my server inside the Figma plugin, for which I only have to get a valid user identity, not an access to their Figma files. I think it’s very similar to those “Sign in with Google/Facebook” buttons, does Figma provide something like this? A “Sign in with Figma” button?

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Evan_Cooney1
4 months ago
Fedor2
Fedor2
asked in Ask the Community
The filled text property in the component flies off

If there is a master component that is inserted into another component. They have Base Text properties added to the component properties. If such a component is added to another component and switched via a variable, then the changed properties will stop working.

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Fedor2
4 months ago
Manuel10
Manuel10
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How to open figma.com when logged in

Hello, how (the hell) can i access the figma.com website when i’m logged in in the browser? I always end up on my project dashboard. Is this question ridiculous? Yes, Figma, it is.

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gluck
4 months ago
Mike_Youngsma
Mike_Youngsma
asked in Ask the Community
Send SINGLE Frame/Page Prototype to client

How do you send just one Prototype Frame/Page (home page) to a client to view in a browser? They do not want something that opens in Figma. This should be simple, but they are getting all of the pages.

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gluck
4 months ago
Elias_Prado
Elias_Prado
asked in Ask the Community
How to remove border radius

Hello everyone, I am new to Figma and I am trying to remove mixed border radius but it does not show anything when I click on the border radius for the element. I have removed the locker from the element and so on but nothing ahppens. Is there anything I am not knowing how to do?

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Santiago2
4 months ago
Riley1
Riley1
asked in Ask the Community
SVG Export Ignores Fully Masked Shapes

Currently the SVG export in Figma excludes any vector shapes that cannot be see due to a mask at the time of export. I understand why this was an intentional optimization and I don’t see a way to disable it, but because it is useful for a niche use of SVG graphics I’m working on I wanted to double check and see if anyone knew of a way to change this behavior or work around it. For example, Figma also excludes elements with a 0 width stroke or that are fully transparent, but that can be worked around by making a very small stroke or alpha (0.01). I can’t think of an equivalent solution for elements that are fully clipped by a mask.

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Ana_Marquez
4 months ago
Maurice1
Maurice1
asked in Ask the Community
Figma set White invisible in Fill after create a component

Problem: If I create a red rectangle from the color library and create a component from it, Figma automatically fills the fill in white and sets it to invisible even though I had previously set it to red. I have been working with Figma for 3 years, 5 days a week and more than 8 hours a day, this functionality is completely new and illogical to me. I have watched older YouTube videos where a component is created and you can see that this stupid feature was not there. Does anyone have any idea why Figma introduced this? It creates an extra step that is completely unnecessary by deleting the white and replacing it with the actual color.sting! Befor After

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dvaliao
Figmate
4 months ago
Mark16
Mark16
asked in Ask the Community
Some FigJam links do not show preview

When pasting links into my FigJam board some show the preview image as expected but others do not… they just who the link text. Here is an example… https://www.etsy.com/listing/1428337641/custom-pet-sweater-using-pet-photo-name SHOWS THE PREVIEW IMAGE AS EXPECTED Custom Pet Phone Case Using Pet Photo Name Custom Dog Phone Case Custom Cat Phone Case Personalized Phone Case Cat iPhone Case - Etsy Ireland SHOWS NO PREVIEW IMAGE… JUST LINK TEXT

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dvaliao
Figmate
4 months ago
Reina1
Reina1
asked in Ask the Community
my font book fonts are not appearing on figma

My fonts are not showing on Figma, I tried opening in icognito, restarting my laptop, force quitting, literally anything but the fonts are still not working. Is there any way around this? I am not being able to use Figma anymore because of this problem.

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Brian_Saunders
4 months ago
Jesse_Wallace
Jesse_Wallace
asked in Ask the Community
Autolayout bug in nested components

I noticed a bug that has recently appeared sometime in the past two weeks dealing with autolayout and nested components. Our team uses master components so that we can push style changes to all variants quickly. It works great and helps keep things tidy. The only issue with this is that if you want a full-width component (for instance, a button you want to expand to the size of the mobile screen), you would normally have to take these steps: Drag a variant instance onto the frame Double click to go from the variant to the master button frame Change Resizing from “Hug Contents” to “Fill Container” Adjust the width of button width as necessary This has historically worked but now whenever these actions are done, trying to set any Resizing option automatically chooses Fixed Width. This breaks resizing nested components. You can view this process in the video below. I created a new master button and a small variant set, and then show how the base button width responds correct, but the va

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Alice_Holm
4 months ago
Readyplayer
Readyplayer
asked in Ask the Community
Why is design mode paid?

I have noticed that design mode is a paid feature of Figma slides. Is this a final decision? I really like using Figma and its amazing features to create stunning slides for my presentations. Taking design mode away feels so limiting. Also, is this just limited to slides, or is this change also coming to the normal Figma design mode?

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Gayani_S
Figmate
4 months ago
Luis3
Luis3
asked in Ask the Community
Resize a plugin after initial creation

Is it possible to use Figma.ui.resize(width: number, height: number) to change the size of the plugin window during runtime? I would like to offer 2 different sizes of the plugin, if the user wants it…

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tank666
4 months ago
Marijana_Stantic
Marijana_Stantic
asked in Ask the Community
I cannot see anything in my Figma - orange background

Hello! I have been working in Figma basics. I uploaded a ton of pictures in Figma to decide on my profile layout. Unfortunately, couple of minutes after, Figma crashed and all I see when I open my project is just orange background. I do not see any of the elements I already created. When I log in to my iPad, I can see everything. I thought that it is about pictures, so I deleted them, but on my computer nothing changed. I cannot open the project and see all my work, just orange background. Please help!

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J
Figmate
4 months ago
Carioca_Andre
Carioca_Andre
asked in Ask the Community
Bullet points color

Any idea how to change individual bullet point colors? Am I doing something wrong here… or is this a bug?

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simon_culdaut
4 months ago
Ruben_Mendoza
Ruben_Mendoza
asked in Ask the Community
Variables not working on Instances

We have a component set with some variables. When using instances, we used to replaced the variables for new local variables. It worked fine, now it is not working properly. It tends to reuse the original one from the component. I’m willing to share the file with Figma support. This is very serious issue as or design system heavily uses variables on components.

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Denis_Wagner
4 months ago
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