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KennLucas
KennLucasNew Participant
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Change a Variable ON TEXT ENTRY to Gap Value

So I made a slider component that fills the track color when a value is entered into the “horizontal gap between items” field. The track fill happens becase that value pushes the slider post to the number entered. It would sure be nice if… If I could figure out how to set the value on my text label to whatever is entered into the gap field. I added a variable to the text and called it “SliderMark.” All I want to do is write a conditional interaction that basically says: Set the variable “SliderMark” to whatever is entered into the “horizontal gap between items” field. Anyone know how I could pull this off? I can make a conditional variable that says “if this changes, do it.” But I don’t think there is a way to pull the value of a gap field and apply it to a variable. Right? Why could we not just add an item to the gap field option to “set variable to this value” or something less-wordy. We can apply a variable to the field, great…but I was to set a variable to the value of the field!

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KennLucas
6 months ago
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Motele
asked in Ask the Community
Align Object at the end of a responsive Text

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to align an object to the very end of a text block so that if the text breaks, the object will continue to stay at the end. Absolute positioning is not an option because the text has a text property and will therefore have different lengths in the instance.

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6 months ago
Alexandre_Istrasoft
Alexandre_Istrasoft
asked in Ask the Community
Best practice with icons: Use component with underlying font vs Import every icon as vector layer?

The general consensus for best practice, as well as what I see in most pro UI kits for sale, seems to be importing a huge set of icons as SVG individually in the Figma design system files, and creating one component out of each icon with a vector layer only, and building components using icons based on that. However, one of the more “traditional” or long standing icon providers, FontAwesome, provides the option to use a simpler component that uses an underlying OS or Figma hosted font to speficy which icon should be displayed (and a custom component can even be made to use Figma styles to simplify it). And then, for hand-off, the same FontAwesome provider has an easy tool to generate custom SVG sprites based on what icons are used overall in the project. So, it would seem win-win ? So my question is, how do more senior designers feel about this versus the import method ? As a junior, my concerns are that in the case of FontAwesome we use for example, it is 16000 icons, that are actuall

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6 months ago
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Szymon_Kowalski
asked in Ask the Community
Long loading and going offline issue

Hi, I need a solution for these, thank you: Before I changed my pc, every tab on Figma app was opening very quickly, but now it takes 1-2 minut to open. Also, Figma apps goes offline often. When I’m going to close the app after a session, it tells me that I’m offline and my changes won’t be saved. My internet connection is the same as it was on my previous pc.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
6 months ago
Janvi_Saud
Janvi_Saud
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File is not visible in deleted section

Would someone be able to help me find deleted sections? I deleted a file after duplicating it, can’t find either of them.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
6 months ago
Shreyasi_Koppisetti
Shreyasi_Koppisetti
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How to process data with mixed values

Hi, Got this error while running my plugin on a design. Error: in postMessage: Cannot unwrap symbol Figma here is the piece of code where the error occurs figma.ui.onmessage = async (msg) => { /** * The function `readDesign` reads the design data from the current page in Figma and sends it to the * UI. */ const readDesign = async ( selections: {id: string; name: string; isSelected: string}[], ) => { .....(code) const getPages = figma.currentPage.findAll((node) => selectedPagesId.includes(node.id), ); const data: any = {}; for (const i of getPages) { if (i.visible) { data[i.name] = await extractData(i); } console.log("data: ", data); } ......(code) figma.ui.postMessage({ type: "readDesign", data: data, client: (user.name + user.id).toString(), system: "M3", }); } I have referred this link, from where I got to know that this error occurs when the node property is a m

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Shreyasi_Koppisetti
6 months ago
Rafael4
Rafael4
asked in Ask the Community
Figma prototype extremely slow

Hello 👋, I’m with an issue on prototype play these days, while I’m in play, interactions such as hover and click take a long time to happen, I have to wait for each screen, as if it were loading for about 2 to 3 minutes. I tried creating a file just for the prototype, thus reducing the amount of screens and scribbles, but it continues very slowly. Is anyone else going through this too? Any help on how to resolve it?

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kzkz
6 months ago
Morten_Larsen
Morten_LarsenNew Member
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Problems creating local variables when moving objects from one file to another

Hi Figma Community, I have been having problems moving variables / variables collection from one file to another. I’m trying to move frames with variables attached to them from one file to another and create local variables in the new file. But when I try no new local variables are created and this dialog is not showing for me either: I have unpublished the variable collection from the library before copying to the other file. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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Morten_Larsen
6 months ago
Kirill_Podmarev
Kirill_Podmarev
asked in Ask the Community
What's wrong with this grid?

Hello, Figma designers, these icons minus torments me

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Kirill_Podmarev
6 months ago
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ohviki
asked in Ask the Community
I applied smart animate but it only dissolves

They are all linked with same layer names but the animation is only dissolving! Anyone knows how to tackle this??

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Bauke_Schildt
6 months ago
Cristian_Banu
Cristian_BanuNew Participant
asked in Ask the Community
How to change the tabs bar back to dark?

Hi guys, Not sure whether this is an UI update or a bug, but does anyone know how I can turn back to dark the top bar containing the tabs? This is how it looks on my end, it’s terrible.

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y_toku
Figmate
6 months ago
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sneko
asked in Ask the Community
[REST API] How to get multiple components by keys at once?

Hi, By running /v1/files/xxx I get the list of components used remotely but they only tell me remote: true, it doesn’t give me information about the fileId or the component. A way to have this property is to use the /v1/components/$KEY_ID endpoint. But it requires doing 1 call per component. Since I’m having a bunch of third-party components, I’m wondering it there is a way to get multiple at once at we could do with a /v1/files/xxx/nodes?ids=aaa,bbb,ccc?

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S
6 months ago
Bryan_Wong
Bryan_Wong
asked in Ask the Community
How to get unpublished components from rest API

the rest api returns a list of published components according to docs https://www.figma.com/developers/api#get-files-endpoint This list does not include unpublished components. Is there a way to include them in the response?

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6 months ago
edDes
edDes
asked in Ask the Community
Clone private file into a new blank file

Question, not sure if possible and struggling with this: Having an internal company file, say a “template” file…is it possible (via a private plugin) to copy/clone etc the “template” file structure into a new empty file? (pages + pages contents, instances…everything). My approach to this (without any coding yet) would be to call the Figma API with the “template” file ID, and, from the JSON response, try to (clone?) each page. I have tried calling the API like that and the “template” file response from API comes as page nodes marked with type “CANVAS” instead of “PAGE” as I would expect. How to proceed from here?, if possible.

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edDes
6 months ago
Wolle
Wolle
asked in Ask the Community
Dropdown inherits shadow from parent element - which it should not

Unfortunately I have not found a solution. The following situation: I have a header box with a box-shadow. In this header box is a user avatar icon that opens a dropdown menu with further options for the user when clicked. This dropdown also has its OWN box shadow. But now the box-shadow is inherited from the header and the box-shadow of the dropdown looks horribly bad. How can I prevent this WITHOUT positioning the dropdown absolutely and placing it outside the header box? It seems to me to be a pretty standard case that there are dropdowns within boxes that also have a shadow. So I don’t understand why you can’t set this separately. In the example shown here you can see that the shadow is displayed correctly if the user icon is placed outside the header box. Which of course cannot be a solution. Thank you for your attention! 🙂

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Wolle
6 months ago
Elene_Chkhaidze
Elene_Chkhaidze
asked in Ask the Community
Figma update waitlist

I joined waitlist for new update and still not gotten one. is there anything I can do except wait to get new version?

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Kailous
6 months ago
Mihir_Moridhara
Mihir_Moridhara
asked in Ask the Community
Figma interface is totally changed. how to switch to normal mode

Please search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

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y_toku
Figmate
6 months ago
Jason_Csizmadi2
Jason_Csizmadi2
asked in Ask the Community
Support for Icon Plugin Development

I’m developing an icon plugin for my team. The plugin successfully pulls icons from a published DS foundations file into the plugin. These icons can then be inserted into the Figma canvas while maintaining the link to the design system. This part works great. The problem I’m facing is displaying the icons in the UI. I’ve tried various approaches but haven’t found a solution yet. I’ve added the file key and Figma ID tokens as I understand them. If anyone has experience with Figma plugin development or UI implementation, your insights would be invaluable. I created an icons.ts file that pulls 5 icons using their specific keys, allowing these icons to be inserted into the canvas.share.cleanshot.com Errors that I’m seeing

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Gleb
6 months ago
Toby_Magrath1
Toby_Magrath1
asked in Ask the Community
What can you change in a library component before it breaks instances?

Does anyone have a list of what you and can change in a library component update before that component breaks? By breaking I mean instance use across design teams, overrides being reset etc. I have a large library I am designing and managing and there are times when new requirements are needed for existing components and I am finding it tricky to nail why somethings break, some dont. Example if you change the name on a boolean it seems to break any instance but why, it’s just a name change? Example was a table cell component that had a boolen to turn on a checkbox. Later the requirement was to be able to switch the checkbox to a radio, so we created a part which could be switched between checkbox and radio and replaced the checkbox. That didn’t break the component’s instance until we changed the boolean name from “Checkbox” to “Row Selector”. Which then when we tested the component via a dummy library all instances with checkboxes turned on all turned off as it no longer associated tha

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Toby_Magrath1
6 months ago
Brian_Saunders
Brian_SaundersNew Member
asked in Ask the Community
Auto layout behaving inconsistently and seems buggy in Slides

I have a bar chart frame that uses nested levels of auto layout, and it behaves differently in Figma Design and Figma Slides. It also exhibits seemingly buggy behavior in Slides. In Design, I can resize the parent frame (which has fixed dimensions) however I want and the child frames retain the correct auto layout properties. When I resize the same element in slides, as soon as I try to resize it in any direction the auto layout settings change from “fixed” to “hug” on the parent frame and the frame can no longer be resized in any way. Any ideas on what’s happening here? I can create a bug report if that would be helpful.

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J
Figmate
6 months ago
Sachin_Dabas1
Sachin_Dabas1
asked in Ask the Community
Unlocking Group Objects in FigJam explodes/destroys the Group

If I lock the Group Objects, and then unlock it, the group is destroyed. It is such a pain if you are working with complex data. Can this be resolved quickly?

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Sachin_Dabas1
6 months ago
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Altug_B_Altintas
asked in Ask the Community
Ipad with Keyboard

With the latest version of Figma, I am unable to type anything on sticky notes using my iPad and keyboard. Any solution for that problem? Thanks.

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ksn
Figmate
6 months ago
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loliriski
asked in Ask the Community
delete team

I deleted the team and all my work was lost. I installed the command and the work did not install, what are the options? i need projects

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ksn
Figmate
6 months ago
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ajh3
asked in Ask the Community
Autolayout: meant to work from the inside-out, or outside-in?

I’m at the point with autolayout where I can generally achieve what I want, but not in a rapid, predictable, or masterful way. The ongoing problem: rather than being able to make a single change in in single shot, I inevitably have to fuss with 2-3+ layers. And my changes all too frequently have unwanted side effects. So even when things eventually look right, I’m not clear or confident on exactly how/why it’s working. So, I have been trying to pinpoint the root cause misunderstanding. My conclusion thus far is that everything generally works better when starting from the inside-out. That is, put fixed values and padding as deep in the hierarchy as possible, and let progressively outer container layers react to their contents. (As opposed to starting from the outside-in, and trying to to make progressively inner layers react to their containers.) However, the official docs don’t say that explicitly. They don’t even really acknowledge the concept of an inside-out vs outside-in approach

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Mr.Biscuit
6 months ago
Tina18
Tina18
asked in Ask the Community
Bug: Unable to 'Undo'

On the web version of Figma, I’m unable to use the ‘Undo’ feature - whether it be through the keyboard shortcut, or into Edit > Undo. Neither work.

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dvaliao
Figmate
6 months ago
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