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Jurgen4
Jurgen4
asked in Ask the Community
Figma told me to make an upgrade.

Figma told me to make an upgrade. i buy it. It shows me account free. What is to do? Thanks

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Jurgen4
1 month ago
Louis-Philippe_Pouliot
Louis-Philippe_Pouliot
asked in Ask the Community
Dev Mode "view only" need to pay?

Continuing the discussion from Dev mode for all viewers?: Hi Figma, i’m not sure if i understand this right, please confirm. **If Kim create a file, and give an “view only” access to John, ** John need a Figma-paid-licence to use the DevMode? I dont understand because it’s a “view only seet” not an “editor” XD has it for free ! Corporation won’t want to pay licences for all their devs. Lots of people are more than happy to move from XD to Figma, but if the CodeMode isn’t free, well, that changes everything. Is there a way to turn this around? thanks

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Louis-Philippe_Pouliot
1 month ago
Adriano_Feliu
Adriano_Feliu
asked in Ask the Community
Billing issue

i feel scammed by Figma

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kirillov
1 month ago
Imke
Imke
asked in Ask the Community
Design system tokens

Hi everyone, We’ve established a design system in Figma using templates. Our current process involves duplicating templates and then manually adjusting the colors, typography, and other design properties for each project. While this works, we’re looking to streamline the management of design tokens, especially when it comes to colors. For example, when we change the primary color, we want the related color variations (like hover states) to automatically adjust without manually updating each one. At the moment, we’re unsure how to automate this process effectively.

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CamilaB
1 month ago
ufuk
ufuk
asked in Ask the Community
Will Figma Design Features Change with the New Billing Structure?

Hi everyone! I’m just wondering whether Figma Design features will still vary in the new billing structure? Example: Will there still be a 4 variable modes limitation to a full seat on a Professional plan? Best U

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 month ago
Thomas_dF
Thomas_dF
asked in Ask the Community
Access a plugin search results with shortcut

Hi, can a shortcut be assigned to directly access plugin search results? Or is it only working for individual commands

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Thomas_dF
1 month ago
Branimir_Balogovic
Branimir_Balogovic
asked in Ask the Community
Exporting images from Figma to code

Hey everyone, We have a custom solution that pulls all of our assets from Figma to code. With vectors, there are, of course, no issues. However, with images, we are working on a process to optimize them as best as possible. Does anyone have examples of how they optimized this process on their side? Currently, we are exporting images at @1x, @2x, and @3x sizes, converting them to .webp, and storing them on S3. The quality is okay, but we are trying to achieve the best possible quality while keeping the file sizes as small as possible (if only it were easy). I’d love to get input from the community if anyone has managed to optimize this. Thanks!

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Branimir_Balogovic
1 month ago
Kai18
Kai18
asked in Ask the Community
Property Options Order Messed Up

Figma does not seem to reflect the order of the property options all of sudden… It was working fine until a few days ago. How the propery labels ordered in the design system How Figma shows when the component is used in design file This is very inconvenient and annoying. Is anyone experiencing the same?

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Gleb
1 month ago
Patrick_Keenan1
Patrick_Keenan1
asked in Ask the Community
Export layer background only (without children)

Using the rest image endpoint, I can get the image of a layer, but in trying to recomposite the layer, do I don’t want the image to include the children within it. Previously I was using the plugin api, and would hide children, export image, then show children. I’d really love if this end point would support this functionally. Thanks!

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Glazed_Analytics
1 month ago
Bora3
Bora3
asked in Ask the Community
How can I remove one side of the stroke from a custom shape?

So I want to have 2 shapes fused together with a line separating them, that line being from one shape, but when I union them both, there is no line separating them and I can’t remove one side of the stroke from the bottom shape. Close to what I want to achieve: What happens when I union: I want the outcome of what happens when I union, but the separation line as seen in the first screenshot. I would greatly appreciate any advice!

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Nellya
1 month ago
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Stefan_Dalen
asked in Ask the Community
Manually install Figma desktop app version?

My Figma automatically updated to the latest version, but it now says that it is incompatible with my Mac OS version and cannot run. Is there a location I can find the download link for an older version of the desktop app for Mac? Versions prior to 116.17.9 ran correctly. Thanks!

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John_Ross
1 month ago
Manager_Progress
Manager_Progress
asked in Ask the Community
Duration of using the Education plan

Hello! One of our students, who has previously been verified and joined our team in the end of May this year, recently received a letter informing him that his access to the Education Plan will expire in 4 weeks and he should be verified. So he verified again. Is that mean that from now he can use Education plan for 2 years?

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 month ago
alikeAstort
alikeAstort
asked in Ask the Community
Issues with Spinner Loader creation

Hey everyone! I hope this post finds you all very well! First of all, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to go through this, and here is the thing: I’ve been trying to create a spinner loader from scratch for learning purposes by following different tutorials with little luck; I’ve kept the same names in layering and spun only the circle inside the variants within the component. When after a while neither of these worked I tried with two different community spinner loader files, and again the animation didn’t work on the prototype preview mode I began to think that something might be wrong with my installation of Figma desktop, so I tried on the web browser version of this software and it didn’t work either… My question is: Do you guys know what I might be doing wrong? Or if there is anything I should configure in Figma’s setting in order to see these amazing spinners spin? Looking forward to hearing from you, Alike

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alikeAstort
1 month ago
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Parth1
asked in Ask the Community
How Can I Switch over student account to normal free account?

I cant give edit access to my mentors

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 month ago
SystemD
SystemD
asked in Ask the Community
Image Swap in component shows wrong image in hover state when prototyping

Hi everyone, I am fairly new at using Figma and I am running into an interaction issue on a thumbnail image tile component with an active and hover state. I replace the image on each instance by pasting a different image under the fill option. It shows the correct image when I manually switch between active and hover states on a frame but as soon as I prototype this it will always show the hover state image of the master component. It doesn`t change anything if I add the “while hovering” interaction on the instance instead of the master component. Any idea how to solve this would be much appreciated.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 month ago
Travis2
Travis2New Member
asked in Ask the Community
"This document contains unsaved changes" - why?

Occasionally I’ll see this cloud icon at top right, warning me that my file isn’t saving. What’s interesting is that I always have several files open, and while sometimes more than one file will show this icon it’s never every file. It’s not the whole app, it’s just file to file. Some files are saving, some aren’t, and I can’t figure out what to do about it. Obviously it’s disconcerting to work on something that I know isn’t saving - what can I do about it? -I’m marking this as solved because people need to see Mike’s post, but “solved” is very much in quotes because the fix is a hack - it’s a workaround for a problem Figma hasn’t fixed yet.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 month ago
Marius_Seim
Marius_Seim
asked in Ask the Community
Unable to move high level components without breaking the instances

When moving components from one file to another the instances do not update properly. Some of the lower level instances are updated such as toggles and buttons, but the high level flow component still gets the “restore component” option. I got the “move to this file” message when moving over the main component, so it should work should it not?

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Marius_Seim
1 month ago
intech.cloud
intech.cloud
asked in Ask the Community
Need More Clarity on Subscription for Team - Figma

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.

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intech.cloud
1 month ago
derekgardiner
derekgardiner
asked in Ask the Community
Figma desktop app lagging only when pinned files are shown

I’m experiencing weird lag inside Figma projects only when pinned files are shown on the Figma desktop app. Restarting Figma, clearing the cache, and restarting my computer hasn’t fixed the issue. It occurs inside every project with pinned files. Anything else I can try to fix this issue?

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y_toku
Figmate
1 month ago
r_sh
r_shNew Member
asked in Ask the Community
Unable to Search Components or Component Descriptions

We’re encountering an issue where we are unable to use the search functionality on a file. Specifically, we use keywords inside of component properties, exactly like outlined in Figma documentation here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/7938814091287-Add-descriptions-to-styles-components-and-variables The Figma documentation explicitly says this is possible: “Figma will look at component descriptions when returning search results. So you can use descriptions to tag components with relevant keywords.” We’ve had this work flawlessly in the past, but are suddenly unable to search by descriptions for components or variables at all. As well, some components aren’t even showing up by exact name in search results! This is happening both on files with many hundreds of components, and test files with only 5 or so components. We’ve tried publishing the file, reloading Figma, etc, with no luck.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 month ago
Jessica_Williki
Jessica_Williki
asked in Ask the Community
Figma Education plan

I was approved for a Figma Education plan in July this year. However, I just received a mail stating that i have 4 weeks left. Isn’t it supposed to last 2 years betore a renewal?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 month ago
Luke_Lizalde
Luke_Lizalde
asked in Ask the Community
How to prototype a dropdown menu effecting another dropdown menu

I created dropdown menus via components and variants for my prototype. The dropdown menu work great. The user is able to select “Subscription” or “One-Time Purchase” Here is the issue I am running into: There are two dropdown menus. Main dropdown: Subscription or One-Time Purchase Sub dropdown: Subscription Options 1 month, 2 months, 4 months If the user selects the “One-Time Purchase” option I am unable to have to automatically change the sub-dropdown menu to reflect the one-time purchase options (1 bag, 2 bags, 3 bags)

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Luke_Lizalde
1 month ago
Alvaro2
Alvaro2
asked in Ask the Community
Exporting variables converts to lowercase

How is it possible that ALL plugins available to export variables into CSS convert the name of the variables to lowercase? You can set variables in Figma to be uppercase and when you inspect, the CSS will show the variable in uppercase: color: var(–Patch-Reef-Blue); But all the variables export plugins will convert this to color: var(–patch-reef-blue); therefore the need to manually rename… Is this me or Figma? Thanks!

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Alvaro2
1 month ago
Iryna5
Iryna5
asked in Ask the Community
Restoring project from trash in locked team

Hi:) Maybe someone will give advice with my case. The team’s plan in which I had my project has expired and after some time my pj appeared to be in trash. If I buy 1 seat in team as part of Professional plan, will I have the possibility to restore the pj? And will it be possible if I’m not the admin of the team?

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ksn
Figmate
1 month ago
Basic_Ju
Basic_Ju
asked in Ask the Community
where can I find the padding for CSS?

I make a website and I am a bit new. So I wanted to ask how I could find out the padding for a button in Figma.

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Basic_Ju
1 month ago
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