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Hi everyone, I'm new and using TypeScript to build a Figma plugin. Is there a way I can let others test my plugin without sending them only the manifest file before I publish it to the community? (I'm using a figma education account)

Hello, I am trying to purchase a professional plan for my personal team on Figma, but it shows this message when I am reviewing the billing info: Your payment method’s address is in a country that can’t pay in EUR. Please use a different payment method. My bank account is in Poland.

Hi there, so I am working with a Design Library from SAP and the prototypes I create have a major font issue. Hover states are thrown off and except for me (mostly) the prototypes seems utterly broken. Does anyone here happen to know how I can fix this? I have been in contact with the support, and I have replaced the font assuming everything would work as it should. Only to find out that the issue persists. Don’t the prototype links update automatically? If it’s not a system font do coworkers and clients have to have the font installed?

Hey guys, I’m new to the advanced prototyping and I’m trying to do the following thing. I have a web page which has 5 cards and the “Next” button (initially disabled). I want to make the following flow: -User’s select a card (only one card can be selected at time) Button gets enabled User clicks next They are shown one of the 5 pages depending on their choice. Is this possible to do in Figma? Thanks!

Hello! I’m looking for someone who is very experienced with app developing that may want to assist me with making my app more efficient. I’ve started creating it but need help! Anyone interested in helping? :)

I have created a QWERTY keyboard component that is made from a separate Button component simulating a Button press. All Buttons effectively inherit the Button component that is embedded in the QWERTY keyboard component. Basically a component made up of components. The Button component has 2 variants, Button up and Button down and the transition I have used between the each variant is mouse down and mouse up.Button Variants - Mouse Down & Up triggersWhen I insert the QWERTY Keyboard asset into a frame and then try and extend the event to transition to a different frame i.e. OnClick say the enter button it doesn’t transition. Trying other transitions like hover over seem to work but that is not the behaviour I want. My question therefore, is there an event inheritance problem between embedded components within a “master” component. Basically, I am I trying to simulate the behaviour of a keyboard with mouse down/up and then an actual transition to another board is trapped using the On

Hey all, wondering how to solve this issue. We created prototypes to embed in our dev docs site, so there are multiple prototypes on a page and different pages. Every prototype has this cookie banner (highlighted in pink), even when I’ve already accepted it once. How can we remove this? Can it be shown only once? Thank you! Denise

What is the recommended approach to solve the following…?Setup:We have a single Component Library file with all our components and styles and variables.We have a separate file for Design Assets that contains instances of our components which are used in our documentation (Zeroheight).Problem:To get updates to components in our Design Assets file, we need to publish the Component Library, which publishes it everywhere.Question:How can we continuously push component updates to our Design Assets file but not publish our Component Library to everyone?Caveat:We would like to NOT have to copy/paste anything between files and NOT move the Design Assets into the Component Library, which is already getting a bit big.

I was logged into an old school email, and after graduating recently, the institution deleted that email address. I wasn’t able to edit the email for the account and now, I cannot sign back in. I’m really scared as this was 3 years worth of work 😭 and I would hate to lose it. I have created this temporary account to connect with support teams to get some help. Please let me know if there is anything that can be done! 

The drop-down “things” of our Design System are designed to go over the other items, so not responding to auto-layout or similar. When I open a long drop-down menù in a page, or just a drop-down menù that is near the ending of the page, this goes outside of the frame, disappearing; how can I solve this problem so that I can show the function of it while prototyping?  

I’ve used multiple plugins where after you run it the first time, there comes an option on the right sidebar to rerun the plugin, but this time it runs with the previous settings, without launching the UI. How can I add that functionality in my plugin?

Is there any shorcut to create series of arrows along the curve as given here in the picture? Can we do the same using pen tool?

Hi, I’m working on a protype that tends to be very slow on older phones. Obvious reasons like too big images etc removed.I know shadows are one of the things that slow prototype and in past indeed this often was a big effectiveness increase in my protytypes, when I have removed them. However, the protypes I am working on right now has them not just for “beauty” but also as a functional part of UX, so removing them completely could affect usability results I guess. I wonder, does anybody know if chaning the shadows to frames with transparent gradients or frames with gradients in mulitply mode would be any better for prototype effectiveness? Or is more like this that anything transparent is so much challenge for Figma proto?Thanks a lot if anybody could help : )

I'm trying to prototype a simple Google Maps style interaction, where the map is scrollable in both directions, and the bottom sheet is draggable. Somehow that seems impossible to do?I've tried 2 main methods: Bottom sheet variants with drag interactions fixed at the top of the map, but the map under it is completely scrollable, so it doesn't read the drag at all. For some unexplainable reason, Figma doesn't treat the top layer as top, and allows everything under to scroll. I tried treating the bottom sheet as an overlay, but then everything else becomes unclickable, which also is unintended. Have been through community files and YT videos but either their content doesn't scroll in both directions or they use overlays, both of which don't solve my problem.Has anyone worked around this before? I want the map to scroll and the bottom sheet to be draggable. Thanks in advance! Here’s the file with method 1 (try using it on phone) Figma File 

Will there be a way for exporting all variables so that I can hand off to my developers? If this exists already, how to do it? The Figma Studio Plugin allows to download a JSON file with all the token definitions. I wonder if I could have the same for my devs. The feature Dev Mode allows you to see which variables have been implemented while selecting a component. However, developers in my team would like a full list of these variables definitions. Thank you so much for these new updates! Great work. I am fascinated with these new features. Love Love Love!

Hi Figma Team, I’ve been developing a plugin for a year now, and suddenly my console started reporting a message that i’ve never seen before :[Plugin API] Validating property "skipInvisibleInstanceChildren" {rawValue: true}This seems to happen whenever i update a figma object, for example : setPluginData, or setting a node propertyAre you familiar with this message ? why did it appear ?The problem is that i’m now seeing millions of logs like this when running my tests, and it kills the performances + readability to a point where i can’t work anymore.Is there any way to reduce the log level in order to avoid getting spammed by this ?Or any work-around ? Thanks in advance if you have any insights.

Hello, Can I export an interactive image? I create a footer for my email and I want to click on to an item anv open a link. Thanks

I have a frame as an example, and when I try to view it in prototype mode the frame size looks wrong, I’ve tried everything; clean cache, changes the size, frames, etc, but nothing works, someone knows how i can fix it? Thanks.

Hi! Our company recently switched to Figma/FigJam for virtual whiteboarding, the tool works great except that scrolling around by middle mouse button dragging pastes my clipboard content all over the doc. I’m using lastest ubuntu & firefox.

Hello all, I have this issue whereas when I update a component (like List Row) in a library, the same component that is used in a file resets it’s inputted data and information. Essentially, changing the component back to it’s original default state. Is this normal behavior? How can I prevent this from happening?It’s troublesome to have 50 screens with data on them to be totally reset after an update.

I’m having some issues when I make an update to a component in a published library, the update is not reflected in the deign file that is using the library.I’ve closed the tab and restarted Figma with no resolution. 

So I created a branch to start working on adding variables and modes to our design library file. I have run into a couple of problems that are as follows; When I go to create a new variable the keyboard “Shift+Enter” does not work to duplicate variables or create new. This appears to be because I have more than one mode. If I have one mode/value column Shift+Enter works, but not with two or more. The branch I am working in asks me to update from the main, but if I do that it removes the entire collection of my color variables. The variables do not appear in the review panel so I cannot exclude them from the update process. Oddly enough there is a collection of Number variables and that is not removed or changed. When adding a color variable, I first name the variable and then tab to the first mode. This selects the color box/swatch itself, but that has no action attached. It does not open the color selector by hitting enter, space, or return. I then have to tab to the hex value

Hello folks,I’m using the native Figma<>Jira plugin and vice versa. While it’s great, in Jira it bogs down the ticket as it’s usually loading the whole board. My dev team is kinda annoyed by this feature, is there a way to possibly just sync it to the nodes itself without creating a full preview as the screenshot below? I don’t see any options for it. TIA! 

Hey Community,I was wondering if there is a workaround to make unpublished components that are used as subcomponents in another component usable as preffered value for an Instance Swap. In my understanding this is actually a quite common use case, no? I don’t want users to be able to find SubcomponentA and SubcomponentB in the assets, but I want them to be able to use them as Preffered Values as Instance of Component.Error message when looking at the component in the library​​​Maybe I am missing something obvious here.Thanks for your help!  Note: The actual use case is way more complex than what the screenshots show, so just making two variants with the subcomponents as part of these variants is no option! :-) 

I have an Enterprise plan and I need any non-administrator user to be able to create a team in any workspace. I don’t understand the current restriction that a non-admin user can only create a team in the workspace they have been assigned. This is very restrictive and forces administrators to do it for them. I’ve read all the documentation available to me and I can’t find any mention of this anywhere. Thank you for your help.