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When moving components from one file to another the instances do not update properly. Some of the lower level instances are updated such as toggles and buttons, but the high level flow component still gets the “restore component” option. I got the “move to this file” message when moving over the main component, so it should work should it not?

I’m experiencing weird lag inside Figma projects only when pinned files are shown on the Figma desktop app. Restarting Figma, clearing the cache, and restarting my computer hasn’t fixed the issue. It occurs inside every project with pinned files. Anything else I can try to fix this issue?

We’re encountering an issue where we are unable to use the search functionality on a file. Specifically, we use keywords inside of component properties, exactly like outlined in Figma documentation here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/7938814091287-Add-descriptions-to-styles-components-and-variables The Figma documentation explicitly says this is possible: “Figma will look at component descriptions when returning search results. So you can use descriptions to tag components with relevant keywords.” We’ve had this work flawlessly in the past, but are suddenly unable to search by descriptions for components or variables at all. As well, some components aren’t even showing up by exact name in search results! This is happening both on files with many hundreds of components, and test files with only 5 or so components. We’ve tried publishing the file, reloading Figma, etc, with no luck.

I was approved for a Figma Education plan in July this year. However, I just received a mail stating that i have 4 weeks left. Isn’t it supposed to last 2 years betore a renewal?

I created dropdown menus via components and variants for my prototype. The dropdown menu work great. The user is able to select “Subscription” or “One-Time Purchase” Here is the issue I am running into: There are two dropdown menus. Main dropdown: Subscription or One-Time Purchase Sub dropdown: Subscription Options 1 month, 2 months, 4 months If the user selects the “One-Time Purchase” option I am unable to have to automatically change the sub-dropdown menu to reflect the one-time purchase options (1 bag, 2 bags, 3 bags)

Hi:) Maybe someone will give advice with my case. The team’s plan in which I had my project has expired and after some time my pj appeared to be in trash. If I buy 1 seat in team as part of Professional plan, will I have the possibility to restore the pj? And will it be possible if I’m not the admin of the team?

I make a website and I am a bit new. So I wanted to ask how I could find out the padding for a button in Figma.

I’ve had a similar issue to this, but this is different. I have this shape with a stroke and I want to remove the top stroke line, but don’t know how to. The shape is warped. I would appreciate any help!

I have registered and am using an educational account, but I still can’t find the API token option. I want to gennerate into python code.What should I do?

Hi there! I’m reaching out regarding a pain point I always experience at the end of a project. The flow goes like this: I start a new design file, add the clients to it —normally as an editor— and then, once the project ends, I ask them to duplicate the file so that I can downgrade their seat to view-only. Is that the correct way to go about it? Is there a better / smoother way to do so? There’s cases where I work on and off for the clients so honestly not sure if I should ask them to make me an editor of the file on their end after duplicating the original I delivered? Feels so off. Any advice on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

i was try to open admin dashbord i was found last 3 days but i dont find any link for open admin dashbord can you help me? 🙂

why Figma’s Ai suddenly gone? it has been handy for several purposes when designing

What I really want is a track changes feature for editing Figma Slides — but that doesn’t exist, so I’m looking for a workaround. The impetus for this question is that I have to edit a deck with slides contributed by multiple people — and I need them to be able to see specific changes where I edited the text or position of their slides in the deck. I’m totally spitballing some ideas here, but they are pretty convoluted — so if you know a better tactic to achieve tracking changes while editing, please share! From what I’ve been able to piece together, it seems like branching (or possibly compare changes in dev mode?) could be a solution — however, it appears that branching (and compare changes in dev mode) are only available for design files, not slide files — so I’m wondering: Is there a way to convert a slide file into a design file so that I can create a branch (or compare changes in dev mode)? AND, when I finish editing, is there a way to convert the design back into a slide file ag

Hey guys, so I’m making an expandable table for game stats for my platform. Each of these stats are broken into 2 segments: total score + each player’s stats. The total score comes with the category label for the stat packed into the initial component and in a separate component for each player’s stats. I’m trying to have the width of the numbers in the player stats = to the width of the stat category name as each stat can have a different amount of characters. I don’t want to have a set width on the category titles as it would be awkward looking, but I want to have consistent uniform look vertically for each stat’s column. Here’s an example of what it looks like with the “long title” versus it working with just “ideal title”: Watch Figma Example | Streamable Sorry, I’ve never posted here before so had to leave the video example as a link above 😃

Hi! I was wondering if the latest email I’ve got from “figma” is a real survey request or if it is just spam. I’ve attached a screenshot below.

Hello everyone, I’m trying to discern what the underlying issue is here. This has only been really presenting itself as a problem in the past few days, but for some reason almost any Figma project I have open winds up consuming essentially all of my system memory. I’ve noticed that this happens regardless of how many project files I have open. While I’m not experiencing any crashing of the application, it does bring my work laptop to a grinding halt and creates an essentially unusable experience. Is there any reason Figma is utilizing so much memory? Are our working files just too large? For reference, I’m using the desktop app on macOS 10.15.7 and as far as I am aware this is the latest version available. I’m really scratching my head over this one as to why it’s popped up as an issue so suddenly. Granted this Macbook Pro is just a base configuration, so it may just be a performance limitation, but I wouldn’t expect Figma to be stressing the machine out worse than Adobe’s Creative

Please help me. I’m presenting a portfolio tomorrow and have been practising it on the present mode. All slides are in wireframes, and some of them are animated. When I include the animated slides, the present mode will ONLY play the animated slides. So in order to play my presentation I have to take them out. Does anyone know how to fix this? I’m sure I’ve presented slides with animations before and it’s been fine.

Trying to create a workaround to resolve having to create many local variables & components for a radio button. The itention is that each colour option can be clicked which changes the variable, when a new variable is set, the previous option de-selects. However I cannot get the ‘selection’ to reset to false when a new variable is set So the stack of conditions is as below: Any thoughts on where this might be failing?

I currently upgarded my team to paid FigJam. Now If I have a Figma file in the same team I have to move it to private space to share. The whole spaces is confusing and makes it difficult to use. I have had a much more negative experience with Figma since it was introduced.

I imported a file from Sketch and the missing font dialog (and sidebar alert) doesn’t appear. The fonts are transparent and I have to select them manually to replace them (for the installed font which is the same that I used on Sketch 🫠). When I select it shows the yellow marker that the font is missing but only in the font selection thing, but not for the whole document.

Hi, we have a professional license in our organization, there are two of us and we both requested the Beta. One of us sees the beta correctly, while the other does not. In the admin section we both see the AI ​​beta enablement information. Why?

Question: is there any way to get a component to automatically use a different colour scheme from the parent frame? Somewhat of a complicated set-up, so bear with me: Our design system has colour variables for light and dark modes. A given component has two separate uses: standard and in conjunction with another specific component. When used as standard, it follows the parent page’s colour scheme; but when used with the other component, its colour scheme is inverted relative to the page. In order to simplify the component configuration/management, I’m trying to keep it to one component for all cases. The ideal would be a variant that’s based on a toggle property for context. For the standard use, I build it naturally and it responds to the parent colour mode. However, for the version that’s used with another component, I can’t figure out how to make it invert whatever the parent mode is. I can set it to dark mode, but then it’s always dark mode, even when used in a dark mode cont

I have been facing this issue for the past two weeks. I am working on a large file for one of my projects, and I am unable to collapse frames in the file. Some frames are collapsible, while others are not; they do not respond to any actions when clicked.

How can I create an animation of a straight three-dot menu moving to the left or right? I searched on various AI tools, YouTube, teaching platforms, etc., but was unable to find an answer.