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I had the Figma ai beta yesterday , now it’s gone how to resolve this bug?

I create component, then I click on component and on the right side bar I cant’ see LAYER section… why?

Hello family, while working on a project i accidentally clicked something and these thick but faint lines appeared across my frames. I am new to Figma and i’m not sure how to remove them. anyone to kindly help?

How can I prevent ghost variables? It is still a mystery to me how some of my components became homes for ghosts. For example, I haven’t touched checkbox since I added the variables in the first place, and today I learned that the variables weren’t updating with everything else… not sure why!! So many questions about ghosts… If I change the name of a variable, will that create a ghost or will it overwrite? If I delete a variable, publish (creating a ghost), but then re-add a variable with the same name will it be reconnected or will it still be a ghost? If I detach a component, will the variables still be connected to the library and get updated or will they turn into ghosts? If I rename a component, will the variables used in it become ghosts? If I move a component to another page, frame, or section in the library will it cause ghost variables? If a designer in a worker file overwrites a variable, will that variable update with the library or will become a ghost? How can I make sure t

Hi there, We have a team library with components, and other project files using instances of these components. When publishing changes to the master component in the source file (library) we stopped receiving the “Review and accept library updates” notification in other project files and obviously component instances were not updating. Yesterday (17.01.2023), this notification was appearing but the changes were still not applied in component instances in other files. This is an important issue, as all our work relies on the libraries working properly. Urgent help would be appreciated. Thanks. UPDATE: I tried solution #3 from this thread and it is still not working.

Hi guys! Something happened to my Figma yesterday and it doesn’t seem to be back to normal. Clicking and interacting with objects and groups has changed completely. When I hover the mouse cursor over an object, it just doesn’t work, it’s not clickable and it’s not highlighted either, only on when I click very close to the edge on right side works and I can select (strange behavior). Sometimes, when I click on a group, it selects the last layer and not the group as a whole. Many objects in all my Figma become like this. What happened? I can’t drag screens around like before either after selecting as well either.

Is there a way to track changes in slides, so collaborators can see what an editor changes? Does anyone know a way or clever workaround? (Version history is not useful. I looked into branching, and also compare-changes in dev-mode, but those features/functionality aren’t available in Slides. Looking for other ideas, please… Thanks!)

Is there any way that I can get the code from the Code Connect by plugin or API? It seems that I can only copy + paste the code, which limits thing that I can do. Curious if there’s any way the I can get the string from plugin or API. I couldn’t find one from the Docs.

while opening the Figma app on my iphone and trying to scroll to a new screen that has a video in the backgroud - the screen goes black for a couple of seconds. This dosnt happen on the computer, probably somthing to do with downloading the video, although it is not bug at all… please any recomandation on how to fix it ?

Hi everyone, my education plan is about to expire, and I’m having trouble moving files from this folder to my personal draft folder. Does anyone have a tutorial or any suggestions?

Hello, I have designed a landing page in Figma in 4 sizes — 1920x1080, 1366x768, 1024x768 and 360x800. After sending it to our developer I’ve checked ready made landing page online and it looked a bit messy (not how I expected). For example, we have 1920x1080. On m MacBook is 16 inch (1792х1120) page looked different (then what I previewed in Figma — Fit width). Furthermore, website looked messy also on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. For example some info moved to the right side (was aligned to left side). My dev told me that I have to come up with more screen resolution to fix this mess. Is it true or he’s just doing something wrong? Pls tell me) He told me that I need to more sizes — 320, 475, 640, 900, 1200. Looking for your opinion. Thanks!

Hello Today I upgraded my account from free to professional. None of the features changed and all my projects still have " UPGRADE to PRO" after for more files or page limits. Can anyone help?

Greetings community, I’ve looked at similar topics but not found a an answer, apologies if I missed it. Is it possible to represent a Parent grid where each row is connected to it’s own Child Grid? Appreciate the help, have a good day.

I have two libraries: one for Brand 1 and one for Brand 2. Everything — such as colors, fonts, corner radius, logos, and component designs — updates correctly when switching between the brands, even for light and dark modes. However, my icons for each brand are not updating. Is there a way to make icons work with variables, or is manual swapping the whole library the only solution?

Figma told me to make an upgrade. i buy it. It shows me account free. What is to do? Thanks

Continuing the discussion from Dev mode for all viewers?: Hi Figma, i’m not sure if i understand this right, please confirm. **If Kim create a file, and give an “view only” access to John, ** John need a Figma-paid-licence to use the DevMode? I dont understand because it’s a “view only seet” not an “editor” XD has it for free ! Corporation won’t want to pay licences for all their devs. Lots of people are more than happy to move from XD to Figma, but if the CodeMode isn’t free, well, that changes everything. Is there a way to turn this around? thanks

Hi everyone, We’ve established a design system in Figma using templates. Our current process involves duplicating templates and then manually adjusting the colors, typography, and other design properties for each project. While this works, we’re looking to streamline the management of design tokens, especially when it comes to colors. For example, when we change the primary color, we want the related color variations (like hover states) to automatically adjust without manually updating each one. At the moment, we’re unsure how to automate this process effectively.

Hi everyone! I’m just wondering whether Figma Design features will still vary in the new billing structure? Example: Will there still be a 4 variable modes limitation to a full seat on a Professional plan? Best U

Hey everyone, We have a custom solution that pulls all of our assets from Figma to code. With vectors, there are, of course, no issues. However, with images, we are working on a process to optimize them as best as possible. Does anyone have examples of how they optimized this process on their side? Currently, we are exporting images at @1x, @2x, and @3x sizes, converting them to .webp, and storing them on S3. The quality is okay, but we are trying to achieve the best possible quality while keeping the file sizes as small as possible (if only it were easy). I’d love to get input from the community if anyone has managed to optimize this. Thanks!

Figma does not seem to reflect the order of the property options all of sudden… It was working fine until a few days ago. How the propery labels ordered in the design system How Figma shows when the component is used in design file This is very inconvenient and annoying. Is anyone experiencing the same?

Using the rest image endpoint, I can get the image of a layer, but in trying to recomposite the layer, do I don’t want the image to include the children within it. Previously I was using the plugin api, and would hide children, export image, then show children. I’d really love if this end point would support this functionally. Thanks!

So I want to have 2 shapes fused together with a line separating them, that line being from one shape, but when I union them both, there is no line separating them and I can’t remove one side of the stroke from the bottom shape. Close to what I want to achieve: What happens when I union: I want the outcome of what happens when I union, but the separation line as seen in the first screenshot. I would greatly appreciate any advice!

Hello! One of our students, who has previously been verified and joined our team in the end of May this year, recently received a letter informing him that his access to the Education Plan will expire in 4 weeks and he should be verified. So he verified again. Is that mean that from now he can use Education plan for 2 years?

Hey everyone! I hope this post finds you all very well! First of all, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to go through this, and here is the thing: I’ve been trying to create a spinner loader from scratch for learning purposes by following different tutorials with little luck; I’ve kept the same names in layering and spun only the circle inside the variants within the component. When after a while neither of these worked I tried with two different community spinner loader files, and again the animation didn’t work on the prototype preview mode I began to think that something might be wrong with my installation of Figma desktop, so I tried on the web browser version of this software and it didn’t work either… My question is: Do you guys know what I might be doing wrong? Or if there is anything I should configure in Figma’s setting in order to see these amazing spinners spin? Looking forward to hearing from you, Alike

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