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I recently accidentally deleted a file from my Figma account. Since I am currently on the free plan, I understand that only users with a premium plan can request file recovery.I would like to know if upgrading to a premium plan now would allow me to recover the file that was permanently deleted before the upgrade. Could you please confirm if file recovery would still be possible after purchasing a premium plan?

Unfortunately I lost the design I created on my account. I suspect this is due to me logging in through SSO on my Google account instead of through the regular log in. I would like to retrieve my design as many hours of work went into it.

I’m working on building a prototype that updates screen content and simultaneously triggering behaviors on hardware. I have my hardware set up where I can run a command on a Raspberry Pi and get the desired reactions. I also have an HTTP server I can send POST requests with properly formatted JSON to trigger the Raspberry Pi to run the commands that I want. The problem I’m running into is figuring out how to send those commands from directly within a Figma prototype. Does a plugin exist that does this? Is there a hacky means of putting a specially formatted URL in a link? I’m open to anything.

I’m new to Figma, but not Illustrator. So I need to do some work on some Figma files - saved them out as SVGs but when I open them in Illustrator ALL the fonts are converted to outlines and some graphics are missing, not to mention some masks are, shall we say, defective. Any workarounds or solutions? Thanks!

Dear ALL, Greetings ! We need your support on the below query, Currently we subscribed Professional plan with 15 US$ + TAX - 17.2 US$. While reviewing different plan as per your site, we want to understand for Organization plan. If we go for Organization plan with US$- 45 per month, than It would allow us to add multiple user without any charge or it would charge as per addition of the team member? This is our main query. kindly help us to understand the plan. Special note : We already filled out the form to contact sales, this is third week we do not received any communication from FIGMA SALES team , ever same content we sent on email as well, but no reply. Hence we are trying to get the help from this community forum. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing an issue when exporting a gradient color wheel design from Figma to SVG. In my Figma design, I created a circular shape with a smooth, continuous gradient that flows around the circle. However, when I export it as an SVG, the result doesn’t look the same as it does in Figma. I attach screenshots to show both: The design in Figma: The exported SVG result Has anyone else come across this issue with SVG exports? Could this be a bug, or is there a specific setting or workaround that could help? Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Hello the community, I was wondering how I can share a Figma presentation (application) and make sure that the files will always open fullscreen. I can’t find any options to deliver this functionality. Any workarounds or tips are appreciated.

Hey there!I’m trying to create a resizable button component. Along with text, I’d like to nest an additional resizable component as a background. Now, I know I could simply generate fill and stroke color in this example, but that’s not the case. How can I make the rectangular component resize itself along with the text on top of it? Thanks! 

I am a bit confused with the hierarchy and behavior of auto layout - like this item which obviously have an auto layout attached but when right clicked the remove auto layout option is not available.  but if i add another auto layout on top of this auto layout - then I can remove it. This is very puzzling. how many auto layout can you put on an element? and why is one not able to remove ALL ? 

I have read the ticket about having interaction panel pop out when clicking a node. That’s good but...Multiple interactions trigger a pop out of interactions panel beside it.My question is how can I have the interaction panel be ALWAYS OPEN including the specific details it entails even when I have not clicked on anything yet.1 interaction means i need to constantly click to open what animation it has.I understand probably the idea to have it always there. But when I want to inspect multiple elements with different animations I want the panels to be open all the time and show me all the list of animations and code that was added to a component, variant, element, frame, etc.I always have to click the Property name (frame name of where it’s supposed to go) and then it will show me the information. I have to click this every time. My wrist is killing me, specially when I am in a big team and I need to inspect each interaction for quality assurance.Send help, tips, and such. Thank you! 

Hi, I’m following a web course and I’m wondering how the author is doing a specific effect. When an image is moved over black text, the portion of the text covered by the image is white. I would like to understand how this is done and replicate it. I see there’s definitely some masking going on, but after that I’m getting lost. I’ll attach some screenshots of what I’m looking for. Thanks! image screen effect and some layers.  image is moved and effect moves with image. 

Hi, I’m a graphic and web designer and educating my self to become a professional UX designer. After watching different tutorials for how to use Figma (I’m used to Adobe and other website platforms), I struggle to save time fixing each frames and groups with Auto layout to make each sections or layers responsive. It’s also very time consuming of need to copy-paste and adjust the web or app design for each device sizes. With other tools, this is taken care of with one design. As designer, time is an important resource, and I must say, Figma is not on my side when it comes to saving time. Is it only me? I try to find a plugin solving this time consuming issue, but still I have not figure this out, after looking into Figma for proximately one month. Can someone please help me out? Why Figma has not solved this issues, when it comes to automatically adjust the design with automatically adjusting to different devices and keep it responsive? I find this community awesome, Thanks:)

Please i want to use the first draft option in the updated version how can i get? search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

I am noticing more and more Figma libraries lately popping up. Think about: https://www.flowbase.co/, https://figmacomponents.com/I’m currently figuring out how they do section X inside a copy to clipboard button. (Want to build this for a client) But, I am not coming to an end, after googling for hours, I can’t find anything about this.Is there someone how this exactly works?Would love to know that!

Hello, I am designing a food delivery app. One of its functions is being able to click on the x on a restaurant card which causes that card to change into “restaurant x hidden. undo?”. I managed to do this, but now I’d like to be able to somehow make the name of each restaurant appear in that box. Is this possible? Thank you.

Hello, I am new to Figma and design world. I used Figma to create animated design, and designed a whole home page. I successfully converted Figma design to Wordpress using UICHEMY. Unfortunately some design elements were missing, some elements changed place and some of them lost scale! I need your help to fix this problem so I can use my Figma design wherever I want.

I am very much a beginner user, designing some brand guidelines using Figma, and am running into a couple of challenges. Hoping this community may be able to steer me in the right direction.The guidelines will be one long page, which will be scrolled through by the user. I have set up a navigation bar down the left side, which is set to be sticky at the top, so will scroll on screen and then stay there.In an ideal world it would be great if, as the user scrolls through the sections – the section name in the navigation panel becomes bold. I would also love for these section names to be clickable and scroll to the sections (whilst also becoming bold/unbold).I have figured out how to do some of these things individually, but am having a hard time getting them to all work at the same time.- What if anything should I be turning into component variants?- Can I get the section names to bold, and ‘Scroll to’ the section ‘On Click’, or can you only add one ‘On Click’ interaction per object?​​​​

Is it a requirement or a rule that all variants in a component set must have the same properties? For example, If I have an instance swap applied to an icon in some variants, but there is no instance swap property in other variants, because those variants don’t have/need an icon (see example below), is that breaking a variant property rule that can cause issues with the behavior of the component?  

I have created a component - A dropdown button that has an absolute position Menu attached. Within the component I am able to resize the Menu but for the Instance of that component it seems ’m not able to do that. Is there a workaround for this particular issue?  

Hi, im trying to make a “smart component” which would auto resize based on the length of a text label, as well as resize other elements in the components. i can successfully create a component with a text label which would automatically resize the frame/component based the length of the text, aka how you would make a normal make a dynamic button component by styling the parent frame, but for flexibility reasons i need the background of the button to be a separate component, that i can change and the effect will take effect multiple places, but i can’t seem to make this work with the ‘vanilla’ version of Figma, and would therefore like to ask if anyone out there have suggestions on how to achieve this, perhaps another layout plugin to assist, could point to related topics (already googled without much success). i have added an illustration to help trying to explain what i am trying to achieve and how i currently have it set up in Figma. thanks in advance 🙂 //Mads

Hi so I wanted to use the material icons from the figma file they shared on the community but the icons have too many variants that we dont need.  I was curious if there was a way to select multiple variants from each icon and delete them. That is a view of the icons. Each icon has 5 variants. I wanted to get the filled and outline but delete the rest for each icon. I was curious if there was a way to do that without breaking the component set.

Hiya, when i am trying to import a mp4 video file to a canvas, the video does not show, instead i see only a blue dotted outline where the video should be.What could be the problem? Thanks!

Hi, I want to publish my UI Kit on Figma commnity as only view. But I cant publish, its always can edit form.  How can I do this?

Hello,I am not an expert with Figma, but I am working on designing UIs for privacy settings on iOS devices. I have a screen with a toggle, and when the toggle is switched to "On," I want to display the permission screen. How can I create the link for this?Thank you,Nora

Can someone help?So I made a bottom Nav Bar and it is fixed/no scrolling. It has animation inside it. Whenever I scroll and change the button, let's say from home to profile, it first snaps to another place then come back to the bottom of the screen. Any help will be appreciated.Video of the problem