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Hello, I am trying to build a presentation and we need to rename all of the frames to numbers in numerical order (based on placement in file: left to right, then top to bottom) We are not allowed to use 3rd party plugins. Is there an easy way to do this using built in tools? Secondary question: Is there an easy way to link all of these screens from one to another in order for the sake of a prototype presentation. (Rather than exporting to Figma slides)

Hey Figma community - is anyone having issues with text jumping up the frame on click? What’s happening is the following: I have design system components and my own components in a spec file, including inputs, buttons, etc. A lot of these instances have text props Clicking on the text, or even the component makes the text layer jump up. This is affecting text in auto layout too, where it will jump 1 or 2 times above the frame bounds of the box Only fix I have without resetting, is setting the text layer to align middle Otherwise I’m resetting all and reconfiguring my component Is anyone else dealing with this issue? If so, have you fixed it? Or what are your work arounds?

Hello, The instance swap function of component work in a way that I find disturbing. So I want to know if you have the same problem or if I am missing something. I have a component that work as a form container for other component. It’s basically a label with a list that can contain one or multiple sub-components. So, in order to change the nested components, I’ve created an swap instance attribute. But then, when I change a property of one of the nested component, all of the others one replicate the same change (see video attached Figma-recording.mov - Google Drive). Is it supposed to work like that or is a bug ? I know i could create different property for every nested component to avoid this problem but I would painful to use.

What am I missing?  

Hi everyone! I use Figma’s student version, and I recently noticed that the AI features have disappeared. Does anyone know if there was an update or restriction affecting this version? These tools are really helpful for my projects, so I’d like to understand if this is a temporary issue or a permanent change. Thanks!

Typically writing a biography needs between six months to one year of work time depending on the research scope and project complexity.  

Hi! Is there a way to password protect all the projects of a team without having to do it one by one?

I cannot get a node to appear when I am trying to prototype. I’ve searched the similar comments before and that stuff isn’t working for me. I am in prototype mode, not design mode, I have clicked on the objects and selected “frame selection” and am still not able to get any node to appear to create a connection. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all. I am attempting to use variable modes as a way to create one dropdown component, but many different contexts (i.e., Phone Type mode, Visa Type mode, Gender mode). I have string variables successfully dictating text in each mode for the input label and items. Because each type of dropdown has a different number of items (Phone Type: 4, Gender: 3), I am attempting to use booleans to dictate visibility of menu items. This is how my variable collection setup looks to accomplish this. And here is how I have the booleans applied to the component. I am hovering over “Row 2” to show that I have the variable applied to the right layer.However, when try to switch modes to show different types of dropdowns, I keep getting a bunch of white space below the items. It seems to correspond the vertical size of the variable-controlled items. Here’s a screenshot of the prototype with the mode-applied dropdown having that white space.I’ve got the scrolling correctly set up, the variables attached

Hello, I was wondering how to make my dropdowns stay in place and overlap one another. They are also a part of a frame and would like for them to spill out of the frame if needed. I already messed with canvas stacking for “first on top” and it does not work. Thanks in advance!

Why does the edited text in the component not show in Preview?I need to check the Visible Options on the right for it to appear, but if i turn it off (because i want all options to be collapsed), the edited text changes back to the Master component’s text. Can anyone help? Thanks!  

 Vecton in Figma.Vector after be exported.I need help with a vector that was supposed to be "transparent" but acquires edges when exported. How can I solve this?PS: There are several vectors that are grouped together and make this symbol. I was unable to merge them into a single vector.

I have a nav component that shows a menu on hover I want to be able to use an instance of this nav component then change the state to show the menu on hover. Then in that menu, I want to be able to add click events  However,  when I test the prototype the click event doesn’t exist on the menu. I’m assume this is because it’s showing the menu from the main component, instead of the menu from the instance.  Is there a way to do this that maintains the components? The only way I can think to do this is to not add the menu into the main nav component but that seems unfortunate.  

Hi there. Our team is much smaller than before, therefore we think about downgrading the plan from Organization to Professional. I saw that “Branching and merging” is not supported in the Professional one. But what does it mean in practice? We have quite a few ope branches at the moment. Does it mean that we will loose access to them, or won’t be just able to merge them?Would be grateful for any insights on that.

Hi, how do you organize fonts and what’s your process on finding the font you need? Do you browse in Google Fonts using categories, do you use Font Book and create libraries with font categories (e.g. sans serif, serif, decorative…)?Thanks.

Hi everyone! I’m creating a table with a row header component and I want to change the header’s state to a collapsed version based on the scrolled x position of table. The idea is that the row header has text when at x=0 and after let’s say x=-200, I animate a state change for the header component to a collapsed version so it’s sticky but not as wide. I can’t seem to find a way to detect the X value of a layer so I am assuming that I can’t setup the conditional statement in order to update the state. Is this a correct assumption or is there a workaround?  Thanks!

I’ve seen some people create their icon sets as multiple components - this is nice, because your icons will actually be displayed in the assets browser. I’ve seen other people create their icon sets as a single component with variants - this is also nice, because you can create variants for size or color etc. Unfortunately, if you create your icons as a single component with variants, you can’t see what you’re choosing anymore - the icon type property is just text, which isn’t helpful for choosing an icon at all. A single component with variants definitely seems like the right approach - however, I am inclined to choose the multiple components approach, even though this is much less manageable and somewhat impractical when you want to make changes to icons across the board, just because the UI for selecting the icon type isn’t visual. I wish there was an option to make a property display as images rather than text. Or an option to make variants of a component display in the assets brow

Hello, I recently got a new Macbook running Sequoia and installed Figma for desktop, but previously had set up my Figma account and all projects on a PC. I am not able to import any image files (png or jpg) into any of my project files. It says “Image Import failed” or Failed to convert. The only images I can import are screenshots taken in my Mac.  If I open the same projects in Figma online, I get the same error. BUT if I open the projects on my previous PC, then I can work in them no problem and can import images no problem without errors. Would love some help!! Many thanks, 

So basically I’ve got 418 different images(419 if you include the placeholder) that I want to have as variants of an icon component, and if possible using their file names as the variant names because they’re name numerically but there’s several gaps in the numbering so I can’t just batch rename the variants with incremental numbering.I am relatively new to figma as a whole though I’ve got a lot of component related things down now,But something like this is so massive that I can’t reasonable paste them all in manually and I can’t figure out a good way to do it efficiently 

Hello, This my simple workflow I create a frame with autolayout and a text I set it as a component I duplicate the component I select both components and apply “Combine as variants” I add “x” at the end of my text : the x appears on my two components Now I create a new Variant from my component. This new variant is in the same set as the others Now I remove the x from my first component x is removed from my first and second component BUT not on the last one Link to the video I must miss something but I don’t understand … Thank you for your help

I have a personal application in which I want to create a integration feature. Best description of the feature would be that it allows me to connect to my Figma account, with a long-term API key. Then, whenever I interact (for example click on some buttons), I can call Figma’s API without logining to get the access token.Is there any way to get an access token that lasts long, maybe months, years, or better be forever?

Hi folks,I've been using Figma for ~10 years happily on the free tier, and I recently tried to transfer ownership of some files from one email to another.I transferred ownership of ALL MY FILES from the past 10 years from <emailA> to <emailB> I logged in as <emailB> and logged out of <emailA> to make sure I was admin / could access everything I then deactivated my <emailA> account (which had no admin permissions anymore), so I could stop having to log into bothAll of my files are now gone.I tried signing back in as <emailA>, but the account deletion worked (hooray) - I went through the new user signup flow, and there's simply nothing there.I have filed a support ticket (https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), and was basically told after submitting “no one looks at support tickets unless you’re on a paid tier” (which is now why I’m here).Does anyone know if there’s other paths I can take to restore my destroyed files? I don’t know if this is p

How do I import CSS to my UI.HTML file? I’ve been trying forever but unfortunately with no luck. ui.css is linked in my project folder, not under any folders. Here’s what I currently have in my ui.html file: <link rel="stylesheet" href="ui.css"> Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much!! <3 When I try the same code in the browser, it links and the elements change but, when I open my Figma Plugin’s UI window, there’s no luck.

Hi there I was wondering if it will be possible to export and import variables in the near future or is this a feature for plugins? Thanks, Jaclyn