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Hello, I’m working on a UX analysis work that will contain a lot of screenshots from different competitor websites. Which type of file will be more suitable for that - Figma or Figjam? Thank you  

Seems like Figma on browser does not identify that I have the desktop app installed.

I alternately work on my laptop and my desktop computer. I worked with Figma on my laptop computer, and the ‘Inspect’ panel was showing. Now I installed Figma on my laptop computer, and I can access the project I was working on, but the ‘Inspect’ panel doesn’t show. I can use the ‘View’ menu to show both the ‘Design’ and the ‘Prototype’ panel, but not the ‘Inspect’ panel. What’s wrong?

How to download background image only, ignore/hide other components

Not sure if I’m going crazy or missing something completely basic but I have a component which contains several nested component instances for . The expandable nav is simple enough with 2 states of OPEN and CLOSED and I have several of these inside a auto-layout frame, which allows each nav to be expanded or collapsed. The interaction works fine until I convert the into a component, then the nested interactions no longer work! Here is an example file containing an instance of the component which do NOT work and a detached instance which works perfectly! Figma – 8 Oct 24 Any ideas welcomed!

Is it possible use two different UI kits on one project?I am trying to use the Fluent UI kit and the SharePoint UI kit at the same time to create a project

Hi, I’m totally a new user of Figma. And now I’m studying an auto layout toping. And watching video I found out that there is a resizing botton on the screen in this video, but I don’t have it (my laptop have windows system).

I’ve uploaded a font to Figma organization (Admin > Resources > Fonts) which is an updated version of an existing font we have.The font shares the same name as the existing font, however Figma does not give the option to ‘replace’ when uploading and still shows the previous version in the font list.I’ve tried clearing my cache and restarting and don’t want to remove the existing font as it’s used everywhere. Any advice on steps to take? Thanks

 I’m trying to find ‘frame’ to use ‘Fixed’ feature.Where can i find this panel?   

I have files in a defunct company account that I want to completely move to a different Pro team account. Can I move/copy those files? If yes, please point me to the right help pages.

 I created a component. Currently, the transition for "show less" is instant, and "expand" uses a smart animation. I was hoping to have the page move out more smoothly. Is this possible in Figma? Why does everything reload to the top of the page when I see the screen in prototype?  

I’m seeing some unexpected behavior with an OAuth token and it’s requests. I’ve a Token fetch setup that works as expected. But after having recived said token and go to make API requests with it, none of them return with good data. They all return with an error of 430: invalid token. Below is a snippet of my user `/me` request. It returns a a 403 with a fresh tokenconst fetchUserData = async (token: string) => { fetch(`https://api.figma.com/v1/me`, { headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`, } }) .then(response => response.json()) .then(response => { if (response.status === 403) console.log(`${response.status}: ${response.err}`) else { console.log(`Logged into Figma as ${response.handle}`); setUserData(response); } }) .catch((error) => { throw new Error (`API Request Failure: ${error}`); }); }; 

In a few words, I have my text styles set up in a library file which I after imported into my child project file. However, I would like to change the line height of the specific text style instance that I’m editing. Is it possible to do that without detaching the component?(I know that it is possible to override things like alignment, decorations, etc, but I don’t see how I would do that for the font family, font size, line height, letter spacing, etc)Given I changed the line height property in the library project, all instances of that property would be updated, except for the specific instance where I manually overrode the line height.Thanks in advance.

This may be an embarrassing question to ask, but hey how do you actually make each intersection point a vertex without manually adding them using the pen tool? I’ve tried union → flatten, but then it creates 4 vertices there(packed together) instead of 1 since a union turns paths into surface areas. I need these vertices because then I can generate a dot on each of their spot using DotsOnVertices, without vertices I don’t know where to place my dots. If there are any programmatic ideas that you could think of, that’d also be helpful.

Hello! I’ve already reached out to Support for this and submitted a ticket, but I wanted to post this here as well. Files from the past three (3) months have disappeared from my Figma account, many of which I regularly open and use. They are not in my deleted drafts, nor are they files that have been shared with anyone else. Here are the things I’ve already tried: Checked deleted folder - they’re not there. Adjusted filters to “Created by anyone” - nothing shows. Checked teams and sub-folders within teams - nothing. Used the search bar to find by title - nothing appears (and I name all my files, so I know how to find them). Tried logging out and logging back in - no change. Some users had the same issues in other forum posts and chalked it down to a bug that hides a bunch of files, making them appear as if deleted even though they’re not. I’ve tried just about everything and nothing can find them. Again, these files are not deleted. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! 🙂

My employees have 2 accounts logged into figma. One is enterprise, the other is free. Is there an activity log that tracks whether the user has copied objects from a file in the enterprise account to the free one? 

The company I work for is looking to upgrade to an Organizational plan. we’ve reached out many times with no reply. Please take our money!! :)

Has anyone else come across this feature, of being able to change the section label colour? See example image. Is this a hack or intended feature?

Where is “send backward” and “bring forward”? Can’t see those options anywhere in the right click context menu. Only two options are “Send to back” and “Bring to front”. Using keyboard shortcuts is not an option. Where can I find these two commands?

Dear Figma community, As the title suggests, I am hoping this is not the first time this issue is raised. If anything, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t being thought out at all. How do you deal with situations where you have multiple overlapping / conflicting tokens / variables? What utility or plugins that allow you to “override”, “swap” or “merge” conflicting variables. I “sort of” know that the only way to overcome is to gruellingly detach any suspecting components, use the “destroyer” plugin, and/or manually sift and sort through each and every individual variable by name (whilst manually “hunting” them by eye alone, which gets triggered by which state and which is not ~ all relying on memory alone). Suggestions appreciated. Andrew.

In our team we have a separate file for all text styles and variables. We made some additions to the file and need to publish new variables, but now we realize that 3 text styles were removed by mistake 2 months ago. Right now we have to uncheck all the removed styles when publishing, in order to not lose them in our working files. Restoring to the 2 months file version of course will give us back the 3 removed styles, but we will lose all the work done since then. Is there any way to restore these 3 text styles, while still having the current file version?

Hello Im looking for a plugin or a way to export/identify and copy all of the icons in my design file, cause i need to organize it to my design system Thanks for the help

Hi all,I was charged for an extra design seat recently which I did not expect. For added info, I am on a professional team plan.This happened when I was backing up files that I had worked on from another team. I did so by making a duplicate of the Figma file and transferred it to my account. What I didn’t realise was this somehow created an extra design seat automatically for the owner of the file. I only realised after I was billed.(Yes I did receive a reminder email before I was charged, but I did not open it as I wrongly assumed the same number of seats to be billed.)This is upsetting because there was no indication that the duplicate action would cause this to happen. I read elsewhere that I should have probably saved it as a .fig file instead, but that sounds like an unnecessary added step.Is there someway to improve on this, for e.g. I could have been shown a toast or notification with this information?

We are a team of programmers and graphics designers that are all hoping to be able to utilize Figma so that our Front End GUI team will be able to pass along React ready layouts and code to our senior developers. What is the best method to do this. We have spent the past week or so with creating a ‘project’. A simple inventory control page for example, but there seems to be a lot of options in regard to what plugin or system is best to switch it to react code. Have people been able to just utilize the inhouse Figma to Code as best results or is it best to utilize a 3rd party. I would really like some input. I’ve seen online about using : Anima I saw a board posting here in this forum from a company called : ‘Copy Cat Team’ for their software and I saw a video that utilized : DhiWise software plug in Since we are right at the beginning of 10 large projects, I really want to get this right the first time. I would really like to hear/know people’s thoughts or suggestions on the best