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Coming from Sketch I can copy text with an attached text style from a document and paste it in my new sketch document and its included there. In Figma when I try to copy/paste text styles from a Figma UI Kit into my document they don’t show up as part of that document unless I add the library they came from. Is there a way round this?

Hi! Similar to the experience of some fellow Figma users as written here: My drafts just disappeared today my drafts just disappeared, without having the “Drafts to move” section… I would reply within that topic but it’s locked. What should I do, how can I recover the drafts?

When I try to publish a Figma Slides template, I get this message: “Something went wrong while publishing. Refresh the page and try again.” I’ve restarted Figma and have re-tried a number of times. Can you suggest anything? Thanks

Can you hide an entire mode column in the variables table from publishing? we have a theme that is not ready to be release but are working on it and don’t want to have designers accessing it yet.

Has anyone come across a tutorial or know how to prototype a video progress bar similar to Netflix or Youtube, where dragging the bar shows an image preview of the video and as you drag the image changes to a preview matching the video time stamp? I’m looking for ideas on creating an interactive slider that displays images as you drag. I’ve found tutorials on sliders with changing numbers, but nothing so far that incorporates image previews. Any suggestions? Thanks!

how do you reset the Frame counter in Figma? A design agency delivered overwhelmingly complex files without changing frame names and it’s super annoying

I have a button composant with many props and variations. And the order of those are very important for my workflow. Inside my UI kit, the order is sets in a particular order, like this. But wheb I published it and upload all my assets, the order is still eratic. I closed my soft, even restart my computer, but the pb still remains. Have got the same pb ? I did have since this morning, maybe this is a new issue after a new update of the software ?

New to Figma, system is requesting verification

Hi folks. I stumbled upon a simple Dialog open behavior. If I use a component with “WhilePressing” visual effect (like e.g. background dimming), then both onTap and onTouchUp actions won’t cancel the effect. Here is a sample design file: https://www.figma.com/design/rC5hQVyjoS3ubnRHTmnW8D/Tap-animation?node-id=0-1&t=eLdLBq0A6LpgurTr-1 There are two pages: Page1: onTap Page2: onTouchUp that only differ in their trigger action type. What it looks like currently Here is a short recording in GIF: As you see, the list item remains in its pressed state. How to fix this?

Working on the desktop app, I have resized the UI and made it smaller by mistake. In the online documentation there are the following shortcuts that do not work because I have an Italian keyboard, where 0 and = are on the same key. I cannot change them, since Figma does not support personalising shortcuts. Reset to Default: CtrlShiftAlt0 Make Larger: CtrlShiftAlt= Also the documentation states that in the View panel there should be a function to resize the UI, but there isn’t as you can see in this screenshot. So, how do I reset the size of the UI? Thank you for your help

When we can expect the avaialbility of that the new Ai feature, that helps to create designs in a given prompt ?

I am aware that currently when swapping libraries it does not work on variables, but somehow when I swapped libraries, some of the color variables reassigned to the new library variables. So now I have components color variables mixed with the original library and the swapped one. How is this possible? I thought the swapped components variables will remain linked to the original library. Does anyone have similar experience?

Hi All, We were waiting for a couple of months (years?) until the branching functionality supported combining a design file + library in 1 branch. We at the time saw no way to use branching otherwise (most if not all assets and colors sit in a library, not in the design file). Has this been fixed/changed in the meantime? Or is this still a no-go? A dumb question perhaps, but how do people work around this? I can’t see anybody that uses libraries using the branches until this is fixed. B

I’ve figured out how to use Figma which is very intuitive and build a website this week and was expecting to spend an hour building a mail form so I downloaded Weavely to make it. Is this typical behaviour: I can’t get the Form templates (opening Weavely window where you select Email form) back on the first page I used it on (my Contact page). I’ve figured out how to use Figma which is very cool and intuitive and built a complicated layout website in the last 2 wks and was expecting to spend an hour building a mail form so I downloaded Weavely to make it. Is this typical behaviour: I can’t get the Form templates (opening Weavely window where you select Email form) to appear back on the first page I used it on (my Contact page). It only defaults to the window with Form / Logic / Share / Results / Automation window, even if I delete all elements in the left menu associated with the plugin When I run the plugin on another page to experiment, I can close the plugin and reopen it and get th

I’ve got a component that uses a background image as part of it. I’ve just added a mask below the image so I can crop the image within each instance of the component. However after checking the instances in the main file, I notice that the squares that you would grab to resize an image dont appear in the instances when I highlight that layer. Of course if I detach the instance, then they appear and I can resize the image just fine, But I’d like to keep the connection to the main component if possible. Is there a way to set this up so it works how I’d like? Or is it impossible right now?

Hi everyone, Does anyone know why Figma doesn’t animate strokes/borders? If I have a button which has a stroke, and on HOVER the stroke color changes, Figma will not animate it, instead it will make a weird jumpy transition that look terrible. Thanks 🙂

I have set up dark and light modes in the variables. in the light mode, the text has a fill: brand/default/text-brand with green color. dark mode is the same variable with different value - white. when I apply dark variable mode to the button, the text fill does not change even though the dropdown shows that if I select it, it should be white. the variables are in a separate library file, where everything works as intended:

Somehow my color variables are hidden in the publish, i’ve checked and they have the hidden checkbox unchecked so i dont understand why this is happenig!

I wanna replace my popup on click to the menu item. It worked by YEARS! but now is not Dear figma please, would notify someone you changed this!!

hello guy! thanks for u time. I’ve 2 collection (a. 3 modes and b. 4 modes). Both show at “Page” but when i want apply variable at frame, I can see only a. Pls Help. thank you 😔 🙏

Hi! I have a problem with a file I created and edited just this week. The file was only accessible to me and it was created in my drafts, but now I don’t see this file anywhere in my workspace and when I click the link (which I saved in the search bar), I get an error that I don’t have access to this file. Even when I click the “request access” button, I don’t receive this request by email, as if the file was created in someone else’s space. What can I do about this?

Hello, I’m wondering for your advice on how to best achieve the following with variables: Have default light & dark mode Have themes and each theme would have a light & dark mode There is one way I can think of to solve this: Have two collections - one with all of the colours and the other with all of the themes (for example light, dark, purple light, purple dark) Is there a way to have one theme only (purple) which would work perfectly with either light or dark mode selected? I appreciate any help!

We paid for Professional for 1 person, 144 dollars was charged, like an annual subscription. Now every month for some reason another 25 dollars are written off. for what? and how to turn it off? and 2nd question - we didn’t connect Figma jam, but out of these 25 dollars we charge 10 dollars for it. how to refuse this??

Before the “dev mode”, there was a small space in the sidebar with generated css code. It could be the most basic for your non “dev mode” subscribers… It’s fine extracting height, width, border, colors but gradients, box shadow are quite impossible. Bring the old css code back 🙏