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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.

I wanted to build a in app rating screen that pops up after a successful event. I want the interaction to work like this If user clicks the 4th star, stars from index 1 to 4 should change its state from disabled to active (grey to yellow), same interaction for all the stars.

OK so in the beginning of the year it turned out I don’t have projects in my personal Figma subscription, just some contract account stuff.I cancelled the Pro plan… so I thought.It didn’t take payment on the 27th, so it’s OK.But then, I go to Figma, see the team I had as Professional, it still has Professional badge.I see that in the e-mails I have info that it’s “viewer-restricted” account that I have at (my own) team.I don’t get it… it should limit the stuff and not generally switch me to “viewer” for all of my projects?Now I have to go to projects and ask to edit but… I ask myself?And I go to subscriptions and I’m still on Professional but I am… not? This is idiotic… another thing that is more complex than needed.Anyone understands all that?

I want to delelte “limited access team”  in my team list.And the account that invited me is a dead email account, so the owner can't delete me.I don't want to be in that limited team. I don't need it. So I want to delete it, but no matter how hard I search, I can't find a way.   

Hi, We develop and deliver a product to customers outside our organization, that allows them to automatically create a basic, but operational user interface for their applications. Now we are looking at developing a Figma plugin that will allow them to use Figma to redesign the default generated UI. My question is whether it is possible to publish the Figma plugin so that it is only made available or can only be used by customers that also use our product.Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this topic.John.

I have added a video (with music)in to Figma frame. also set the option to “Autoplay” but on the shared preview link, it just missing the audio until I press any part of the screen

My team are on a professional monthly plan where I am the Admin role. One of the team members who has full design seat and should have full edit access to all files and projects in the team recently got downgraded accidentally by another user to view-only resrictions for one of the project files, and therefore the files within that. I can’t seem to go in as an admin user and just grant him access to the project file again because I was not the original creator of that file? The original creator of the file is currently on leave. What is the point of an admin permission level if the permission level doesn’t grant access to undo actions like this? Is this a bug or built in functionality? Has anyone else had issues being Admin level but not really having any control over the files that you didn’t specifically create yourself? Or am I just totally spazzing out and just missing/overlooking a button that allows me to do this? I’ve reached out to Figma for support but would appreciate help as

Having an issue opening prototype preview in browser - prototype is just showing as a white screen. It opens in the iOS mirror app, but in browser I’m just getting a white screen where my prototype should be. I’ve tried clearing cache, logging in and out, and using a different browser (tried both Chrome and Firefox). Anyone else having this issue?

Hi Community,I am working on a project where i need to add a Heading and Description on an image which will be generated by a prompt. The image generation part is already figured out. The problem is to add the Heading and description and a logo image on the image itself and make the entire thing editable.once they are stitched together.Thanks

I’ve encountered a bug where scroll position resets on all interactions when viewing a prototype in responsive view… The fix (for now) is to just view the prototype at actual size… Once I switch and view the prototype at actual size, scroll position is preserved as expected/intended… Wondering if anyone else has encountered this or found a solution for it?

  I want to create a stepper that allows only one option to be selected at the time using variables. So far I have something like this but it doesn’t feel clean or practical enough, since there I was trying with only 4 options and the actual content would have +10 options sometimes.Each dash has an active/inactive version, and I toggle the visibility using booleans to invert the items that are being shown each time.Logic inside each dashHow my layers are set up  

I am trying to build a prototype where the size of the overlay depends on the size of the window. There is a set of overlays. On click of the button I open overlay on the side of the screen and the height of the overlay needs to follow the height of the window. First image looks good. The overlay in the second needs to adjust. HOW?