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Hi,I created couple types of fast food menus. They are all containing the same prices, that are going to be changed every 2 months. I was thinking about creating one “plain text-type” pricelist which would populate all the graphic ones to easly change all the prices at once. Is there a possibility to do this without creating components for every single price? What’s your ideas?

Hello, Figma Support Team,I am writing to inform you that the same issue you previously resolved has occurred again.I have sent the file to the Fingma Support team via email to resolve the issue.There are two issues. (File names: First issue.zip, Second issue.zip)Please assist in resolving this problem.Thank you.

Hi Figma team,Previously I registered education plan. I want to change to normal free plan to edit my current projects. What do I have to do now? Thank you.

I need to copy variables from one file to another. While this generally works well, the order appears to change when pasting them into the new location.Is there a way to either maintain the original order or automatically reorder them without manually rearranging each time? 

Hi there!I received an email regarding my education plan is expiring in 4 weeks. I have submitted an inquiry but was bounced back saying that I have a starter plan.I am confused whether what plan I am on and what would happen to my projects that I have created if they were to expire and how I can prevent that. Is there a plan that I can use if I am also mostly working on these projects just for myself and not anyone else? 

I had this email:  You have 3 days left on the Education plan The education teams you own will become view-only for all members, and you’ll lose edit access to other education teams once your plan expires. If you graduated: Continue below to upgrade your team(s) to the Professional plan, or create a new Professional team. If you’re still in education: Verify your status to keep collaborating with your team(s). To save your work: Duplicate or move files to your drafts to save them for later, and consider transferring ownership of your team(s). Whatever happens next, best of luck! Whenever you’re ready to start your next creative adventure, let us know.     Will I lose all my files if I do not upgrade?   I do not want to lose my files.    will they be deleted if my education plan expire?      

Hello everyone,I need to manage the counter 16 at the top using variables.Each time I press plus on a counter, I add one point to that counter while subtracting it from 16. Conversely, when I press minus on a counter that has at least one point, I subtract the point from the counter and add it back to the global counter.I want the global counter (16) to be influenced by all these counters without exceeding 16 when pressing plus more than 5 times on a single counter or going below 0 when pressing minus too many times.Additionally, each counter is limited between 0 and 5. The global counter (16) should not be affected by more or less than 5 points per individual counter.How can I manage this variable?  

Not sure what’s going on. I’ve already set up Instance Sap with icons in buttons and they work just fine. But now I am trying to make an avatar component with preset variants for different types of people, and an extra one that will be an Instance Swap. I set up a Component, “Custom Avatar Placeholder”, with an Image inside of it, to select for the Value of Instance Swap. Next to Properties in the right panel, I click the “+”. I Give the Component Porperty a Name of “Custom Photo”. I select the “Custom Avatar Placeholder” Component for the Value of the oOmponent Property. I click “Create property”. Now, under Properties, I see the “Custom Photo” property, but there is an alert icon across from that, and hovering over it shows “Not used within component”. Not sure what I’ve missed. Any Ideas? Thanks!

I named a component in Figma, the name was chinese. but when i export it as a svg file, the chinese id was garbled. How can i fix this bug? thanks everyone.

hi! i’ve a main component- which is a button. button consist of an icon (which is a component as well) + text. when i try to use the variable button, there is no way i can reduce the size of the icon. is the only way to do so is to create another same icon component but in smaller size? is it a common way to have a few icon size under design system? TIA!

I’m doing some plugin development and have a figma document that has a couple libraries added to the file, and these libraries contain both variables and styles with different color values. I am trying to access the color values for all these variables and styles from both libraries programmatically via the plugin API. Ex:  Is this even possible currently? Or is there any workaround to access the color values associated with variables & styles from libraries associated with your document? I know the plugin has a teamLibrary API designed to work with library files, but I only see two available methods (getAvailableLibraryVariableCollectionsAsync and getVariablesInLibraryCollectionAsync), and I don’t think either of these are able to give me the color values associated with the variables in the library. And in addition, neither of these methods work with Styles in the libraries (only variables). Any input is appreciated, thanks!

Hi everyone,I recently lost access to my Google account, and unfortunately, this account was linked to my Figma profile, which contains several important projects that I desperately need to recover.Since I can no longer log in to Figma using that account, I’m hoping there’s a way to regain access to my projects. Has anyone experienced something similar or know if Figma support can help transfer projects to a new account?Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

My animations work fine in the prototype preview but when I press “open in presentation view” none of the animations are working. I need this for sharing links on my portfolio and with clients, but I can’t seem to find a solution.

For some reason whenever I’m viewing my prototype, I’m seeing a white background over some parts of my designs. Not sure what’s the reason, but it’s consistent whether I’m viewing it on my desktop app or web app. I included an image of how it looks within the prototype view vs how it looks in the actual design.

We’ve filed support tickets concerning prototype malfunctions and performance issues in the past, but I’d love to hear how this is going for other teams. Basically we have a very complex prototype we use for user testing. Not a huge number of screens, but a lot of variables, conditional statements and some rather complex components. Performance is abysmal, and crashes are frequent. We’ve had everything from lagging and freezing to the “Something went wrong” error screen and, most recently, a “Prototype is too big for this device – Try viewing it on a computer” error message I hadn’t encountered before. This is on an iPhone 15. I’d love some feedback as to what makes it “too big”, or any other kind of pointers as to what might improve the situation and what others have tried. There are two approaches we’re considering, but they’re not worth sinking time and effort into if they won’t resolve our problems: Detach as many components as we can – not something we’d prefer because it would r

プロトタイプの追従を途中で解除させたいのですが、方法はありますか。上端で停止しているものを、再度自由なタイミングでスクロールに従わせたいと言うことです。調べても出てこなくて困っています。

I need to export my frames to a multiple page PDF for print, but it keeps exporting into 1 single page. I have tried the “frames to pdf” already and it still exports in 1 page instead of 10 so the printer can’t work with it.

Is there a way to navigate to a variant of a separate component without creating an extra frame? So if I have a component set and I want it to navigate to another component set’s specific variant. I cannot think of a way to do this without creating bridge frame.😭

Hi, What is the distinct use case for the instant swap property? Is there a way to use it such that it reduces variants and instead you can bind asset variation to variables? I’m trying to improve performance for prototypes while adhering to requirements that assets be on the same page. I started using IS property but I’m now finding it less/not useful. I’m wondering are there distinct use cases for the IS property today? *Instance Swap

I work at company which deals with sensitive information. A common method used to keep information from leaking is refraining from using cloud services. Since Figma is a cloud based app, I’m unable to use it as most users normally do. It is pretty clear that Figma team decided to make it impossible to use Figma offline. As stated in their help docs, while offline you cannot " Create new files, or open files that you don’t already have open." This makes Figma unusable while offline. Many people out there would benefit from using Figma offline. I don’t see a reason to keep limiting the offline functionality as it currently is, so, Figma Team, please help a brotha out!

Hello, Is there any way for an audio file to play when user clicks on a button/image in Figma?  Thank you.

Hi, sorry, this is a duplicate of  which i didn’t tag correctly and i couldn’t find any way to update / delete,feel free to delete that other thread. 2 days ago, some new logs appeared in the console while developing my plugin through the plugin API : [Plugin API] Validating property "x" {rawValue: y} whenever i update a figma object, for example : setPluginData, or setting a node property;This came with another new log which i never saw before and is probably part of the same update :[Plugin API] Plugin run kendmcjkn9 finished {pluginEndEventData: {…}, setPluginDataStats: {…}}(this one is not bothering me though)The problem with that first log, is that it impacts performances and readability to a point where i can’t work anymore, i’m totally stuck right now.Is this new log intended ? any way to get rid of it ?Thanks in advance.

I created a book on Figma, and it has several A4 with designs on top. When I click “file” and export, it only export some items, but not the whole pages: The A4 are on the frame setting already, and all the designs are “grouped” together with the frame. Also, they’re connected in the prototype mode in the order the pages should be. How can I export all pages at once in the correct order?

I’m trying to assign a variable to a property in an instance of a component. The variable and property names are identical, but it seems the menu icon is completely missing from Figma. Is this feature no longer available? My Figma app is up to date. Variable: Instance property: According to Figma’s support pages, an icon should be visible next to the property:

We’re building out our design system and we’re wondering why our components are appearing faded and if that may be problematic for us in the future? Thanks in advance!~