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Hey everyone, I’m trying to create a heatmap feature in a custom embed that tracks where users click in Figma prototypes. I’m using Figma’s Embed Kit 2.0 and specifically listening for the MOUSE_PRESS_OR_RELEASE event. The only coordinate-related fields I see are:nearestScrollingFrameMousePosition nearestScrollingFrameOffsetThe thing is, in some prototypes, nearestScrollingFrameMousePosition is properly populated, but in other prototypes, it stays null (even though I do have scrollable frames). Here’s a stripped-down version of my code

One of the last remaining pain points that I encounter in most of my projects when trying to set up components to be responsive across devices, is needing to be able to define a fixed aspect ratio for responsive images. For example say I’m creating an instagram or youtube feed where the images/videos are 1x1 or 16x9, It would be great if we could lock the image layers aspect ratio to that. Unfortunately in the current state there is no way to have those images retain their aspect ratio’s on a responsive screen by using the fill property or left and right constraints, it would be amazing if responsive components respected a locked aspect ratio (or something similar) on shape/image layers so image/video heavy designs could be more accurately responsive.

I have one file on my account that is missing. It’s an important project. I still have the URL but it can’t be found. Trying to paste it here but Im not allowed to do that. I have searched everywhere in deleted files and so on but it just gone.  Someone that could help?  Catrin  

I have a component with a limited amount of space for text. The text will be too long in some instances and I need it to overflow to a second or third line. However, I don’t want that second or third line to always be there. How can I replicate this with Figma?  

Hello! A few days ago I tried to share a FigJam to Google Classroom. I clicked “make a copy,” but when the FigJam was shared, a copy for each student had not been made; all the students were viewing the original FigJam together, which was, obviously, chaos. Another teacher with a separate account on a separate computer tried to re-share the same FigJam as a copy twice but had the exact same result. The following day, a completely different teacher in my school system - with a separate account and a separate computer - tried to share a completely different FigJam to Google Classroom and had the exact same result. It would not copy, despite clicking “make a copy.” All three of us double-checked that we were following the procedure correctly, and have successfully shared Figjams in the past using the “make a copy” function, so there was no user error. This has never occurred before, but the issue is making those Figjams unusable for our school system. Please

Right, so I have thing thing where I want to use variables and conditionals to use in a prototype where a user would select:0 checkboxes and then select Button and get error message saying you need to agree to both checkboxes 1 checkbox and get error message saying you need to agree to both checkboxes 1 checkbox (the other one) and get error message saying you need to agree to both checkboxes 2 checkboxes and then move on to checkout flow The checkboxes should be easy to toggle between active/inactive.When the button is selected and the error message appears, I need the checkboxes to show error (red outline) if inactive. Anyone done this or seen a tutorial on it? I tried so many different things in Figma, did it in Axure in 10 minutes and ended up drinking  whiskey instead. Thank you in advance for your time.   

I’m working on a mod for a game. The file allows to swap inventory icons for ammunition and edit them to the user’s liking. Now, i’m new to Figma and this is all a trial and error kinda learning, so far i could do everything i wanted precisely how i wanted.I’ve hit a wall which is technically only a minor inconvenience: I have a component with “bullet tips”, each variant is just one bullet tip. I have another component which are whole “bullet cartridges”, and each variant has between 1 and 3 bullets in it. Each bullet (a separate group within a component) has a nested instance for bullet tip swap, so the “cartridges” component variants have 1-3 nested instances of “bullet tips”The cartridge is then nested in the final “ammo box” instance that has all of the nested components swaps listed.Now the problem i have is that the nested instance swap shows 1-3 bullet tip swaps based on the number of bullets of course. What i want to do, since they’re su

Is there a way for multiple users to test an unpublished widget? I'm developing a game widget for FigJam and I need to test the multiplayer aspect of it; however, the widget isn't ready to be published to the larger community/made public. 

Is there a limit to how many nodes that can be retrieved from the https://www.figma.com/developers/api#get-images-endpoint endpoint?

I could only find one similar query and it was auto-closed with no answers. I have cloned a library and I’m swapping a file to that library so I can test component changes non-destructively. It is a straight clone, no changes at all have yet been made. Not to naming, position, theme, anything. Several components are not found after swapping the library. I can find them myself in the file, they exist and are named as expected, but the built in swap insists they do not. This is clearly a bug, has anyone found a way around it?

Hello all,  I am thinking about purchasing the Figma Professional plan, what I cannot find is whether I can also put my prototype online with a plugin with this plan. (working website) Is that possible after designing the site or do I need Enterprise? Thankyou very much for your help!! Kind regards, Stefanie.

Hi! I keep getting view requests from random email addresses, so I think that my shareable link was leaked. How can I change the existing link so I can share it again ONLY with the people I want to give access?Thanks!

Hello everyone, I have the following question:I would like to show and hide an object between different viewports.On desktop it should be seen, but at a certain resolution, so by squeezing the artboard in width, it should be hidden.Is it possible to do this via variables?If YES! How?Thank you

Hello Everyone / Figma Support Team! Could you please tell me why the “Push” (along some other options) are grayed-out in the Interaction drop-down menu? I tried changing Overlay to Top-Left, Manual, But “Push” keeps being grayed-out for no reason… 🙏🏾 Thank you in advance for your kind help / workaround!

Hello,  I want to request for the Figma AI Feature. 

Hey All, I am new to figma and i am struggling with the smart animation prototyping. When frames are previewed separately it will show properly but if i put that frame in any mobile device frame, when i click preview, the screen goes black and animation attach top of the device. I attached the preview of it. Anyone can help me what may be the issue and how to resolve it? Greatly appreciate your help here 😊 

Hi Folks, Thanks in advance for helping out. I’m super happy with the newly released Figma slides. It perfectly integrates with what we need and it works like a charm. We are using some glass effects in our deck, which are built with blur effect. However when exporting to PDF, they are transparant again. Who knows what to do?

I will do my best to explain this current situation in step-by-step detail; I’m really hoping someone can provide a clear workaround to the problem ...We hired a third-party designer via contract to create mockups for a web app our company is building; these mockups were being designed in the third-party designer’s Figma account. Several of us were given view/edit access to the files that were all being housed in a single Master File (folder?) where this third-party designer was ‘Project Owner’ …The contract recently came to an end, so we wanted to move every single file sitting in this third-party’s Master File/Folder, to our own organization’s internal Figma account. This way, we avoid needing to access the files in this third-party’s Figma who would no longer be working with us moving forwardI believe the proper way to handle this, would’ve been for the third-party designer (Project

Hi all!I am trying to set up a small variable system with responsive behavior for my team. The feature with the adaptive modes is really interesting.In this example, I am trying to add padding to the desktop 'Infocard'. As you can see, it works within the frames, so no matter where I drop the component, Figma automatically uses the correct component instance.The problem: In the Infocard component itself, I can assign the correct mode to each instance via the Appearance panel, but this breaks the automatic ‘drag-and-drop’ functionality.  Variables. Everything works in the mobile and desktop frame. But not the ‘Infocard’ componentI could change it here i

Hello ​@Celine_Figma Thanks for the clarifications. Much appreciated.I have a question. I manually uploaded an image to a Figma file. After selecting the uploaded image, I noticed that clicking on the image name(image.png in this case) in the right panel of the Figma UI (refer to the attached screenshot) opens the image in a new tab.The URL of this image (opened in the new tab) is accessible without requiring login. Does this mean that images uploaded to Figma are publicly accessible? Or, Am I missing anything here?   

I’m trying to assign a variable to a component instance so that I can switch instances when clicking. I’m trying to learn how to use variables to create a less intensive way to setup prototypes that have a lot of ‘buttons’ that switch between content. With the screenshot I’ll share, I have it manually rigged up so clicking the pill button on the left panel changes it’s state to selected, makes the clicked pill become selected, and changes the content panel on the right with the related text.I looked over a few videos and I feel like I could could be done similarly to what’s done in this video, where clicking the color box changes the selected alien character. Just replacing the color box with my pill buttons and the alien with my text. But I’m having trouble seeing how to easily assign the variable to my selection.How might I be able to do this without manually rigging up a ton of prototype connections?

Howdy, I’ve been running into an issue/bug where components that have variant properties which are bound to a variable with multiple modes are not rendering correctly on load or after edits. This seems to happen most often with instances of components that have multiple levels of nested components. It’s a pretty specific use case, but I happen to run into it frequently. You can see this here. Upon opening the design file, often the instance nested components fail to render properly. (in this example, the numbers in the colored boxes in the instance section often do not appear until you select them). Also, if you change the color of the text in the “content” component, it fails to update correctly in all of the instances below. I’ve been able to reproduce this on a couple of different design files and wi

Hi there, i am super curious about the Figma AI features. I am waiting for the features for a few months now also get the Figma AI features (even created multiple accounts increase the chance to get access).  Is there something or a website to sign up for some kind of beta beta version of Figma AI. Would be open to give feedback. 

I want to allow a few members of my design team to add components to a file but restrict them from publishing it. I’d like to keep publishing control limited to specific team members. Is this currently possible in Figma?

Is anybody else getting the following error when they try and use the design mode in Figma Slides:-Figma slides design mode requires a Figma design planI am logged in on an account that has a design plan seat. and I can‘t understand what dose  “full seat” mean in your help center. I need to create lots of design file or I should pay for it?-Design mode requires a full seat for Figma Design