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Nikita_Balakirev
Nikita_Balakirev
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setPluginData between files on ComponentSet/Component

Preconditions: I have two files, the first one is a feature file, and another one is a library with components. What I’m trying to achieve is the following: user A via some interaction, calls setPluginData on ComponentSetNode, this ComponentSetNode has child ComponentNode A user B selects InstanceNode where mainComponent is a ComponentNode A I want to getPluginData from the ComponentSetNode above. so the chain is instance.mainComponent.parent.getPluginData() - here I always get undefined Can it be the problem that this ComponentSetNode is defined in another file? How can I save data on a component set and then get it on the instance level?

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Nikita_Balakirev
11 months ago
Srinivasan_P_L
Srinivasan_P_L
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Figma prototype preview lags a lot when we have components and added interactions

The Figma prototype preview lags significantly when we have components and added interactions, slowing down the preview page scroll. It suddenly jumps up and down within the same page. How can we resolve this issue? Tried clearing the cache and memory of the app. But no use. Specifically where we have used animated interactions at that place its lagging / getting stuck most of the time.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
11 months ago
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ga.park
asked in Ask the Community
About Team permissions filler

Hi everyone, We are working and using Figma file with developer and designer together. But I wanted to give permission to developer ONLY viewer. If developer has “full” permission, they could change design files. So I was wondering why some of the people have filtered with “full / viewer / viewer-restricted” and the other have only “full / viewer-restricted”. We want to know how to change this permission filter. Please check bellowing picture and answer me. I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions or solutions the community might have to address this problem.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
11 months ago
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Christopher_Francis
asked in Ask the Community
Change of behaviour using shortcut "shift+a" and Absolute position

I frequently use auto layout to align or evenly distribute layouts and begin to organise sections or groups of elements together. Often, the way I do this is by quickly grabbing the desired elements and then hitting shift + a, which puts them into an auto layout, giving them even distribution and making them all aligned if they were slightly out. In the last week or so, though, I’ve noticed that behaviour seems to have changed. Almost every time I try to group a couple of objects into an auto layout, if they’re not perfectly aligned, it will give all the layers except one of them an absolute position. I really miss the old behaviour, and with the absolute positioning, I often find it seems to place the elements in quite a different place anyway rather than trying perhaps to add these elements to an auto layout and respect the current position. Anyway, wondering if I’m just going crazy or has something changed recently? Thanks!

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ViktorIa_Korotkova
11 months ago
Rene_Tan
Rene_Tan
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Is there a way to identify all unlinked text styles and auto-assign it to an existing/matching text style?

Context migrating to a client’s figma environment, we’ve imported the text styles but in bringing the design flows over, everything is unlinked. Would like to have everything relinked in the new project. Thanks!

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Anna_Geils1
11 months ago
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Littlefish
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Was Paste to Replace removed?

I am using Figma in the browser, and the paste to replace function seems to be missing. Was this feature removed?

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dennsi
11 months ago
Cristian_Banu
Cristian_BanuNew Participant
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Anyone know what in the world this is?

Hey guys, What does this color style mean? The one that has a square color indicator rather than a circle. And how in the world did I do that?

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Gayani_S
Figmate
11 months ago
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Ella_Liao
asked in Ask the Community
Animated sticky header

Can someone help me to check what I have done wrong for the animated sticky not working in prototype please? I want the header to shrink to smaller size when scrolling, and I followed a step by step solution on youtube, but it’s not working for me. Can someone help this newbie to check my file please please please? Thank you so much! Figma – 9 Mar 23

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Figmate
11 months ago
Marge
Marge
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Figma for Education - Students Locked Out

Some of my students get the message “locked out” when they try to make a Stickie. They can make comments but not Stickies. How can I unlock them?Please search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
J_origine
J_origine
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Back interaction does no longer remember the path

Hi, I started to use the Back action. Great to have less arrows on the screen and to re-use some screens. Since this morning I have some Back actions that do not work as well as they used to. They work well to go back to the previous screen when there is a single level of navigation (Screen 2 → Screen 1). Some work when I have multiple levels of navigation (Screen 3 → Screen 2 → Screen 1) Unfortunately, I now have some Back actions that do not work in the case of multiple levels. I always have Screen 3 → Screen 2 → Screen 3… (impossible to go back to Screen 1)

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
Elliot_Rosin
Elliot_Rosin
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Hover Feature glitching

I am creating a photo sharing site and I have a feature where when you hover on the photo it darkens. The photo is meant to move with the user, however, when the user is not scrolled at the very top the photo glitches. It still hovers, but it goes up and then back down. Does anyone know why it is doing this?

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Elliot_Rosin
11 months ago
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george.russell
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Dynamic Body text changes when hovering over a button/link

Hello everyone, I was wondering if this is possible in Figma. I have a list of Board of Trustees. I list their names and when I hover over the name I see contact information and when I click on the name I get the contact information and the Bio. All works great, but what I want to do is use one body frame that will dynamically display the contact information and Bio. Struggling how to accomplish this in Figma. Thoughts?

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11 months ago
Wren_Peters2
Wren_Peters2
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Frame selection shortcut not working on MacOS

Opt + Cmd + G is not working in Figma (MacOS native or in Chrome) on my Macbook Pro (14.2.1 (23C71)). I’ve tried using an external Mac keyboard and I have the same issue. Other shortcuts seem to be working. Opened the same files on a different Macbook Pro and the shortcuts are performing as expected.

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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Andrew18
asked in Ask the Community
How do I allow swappable icons to take on the shape and of variants they're a part of?

I’m building out a design system. I have many icons (which I’ve turned into components) that can be used in a variety of components that may affect the size and color of the icons. I’ve seen other design systems get this to work by creating every possible combination as a variant, but I want to try to avoid that to save time. I’ve tried creating a component with different sized variants for the icons, as well as a component for the different colors. I’ve nested the color component within the size component. When I make an instance of this, I am able to swap sizes and colors, however as soon as I change the icon to one that is not a perfect square, the vector icon stretches out to match the parent frame (which is the component level). I’ve tried messing around with the icon and vector’s autolayout, and huge/fixed settings and etc, but I still can’t get it to work. Also, there are some boolean layers within the components and that’s because I used the tips described here to get the color

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Raphael_M
11 months ago
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Hotari
asked in Ask the Community
Why connectors are distorted?

I tried to create a diagram with FigJam. Then connectors became crooked after added labels. The problem doesn’t happen when 2 shapes and 1 connector. I think the number of connectors and complexity can matter. How can I avoid the problem?

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H
11 months ago
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Ben_Beeson
asked in Ask the Community
Prototyping: Multistep form dialog - last step (instance) not respecting prototype interaction to go to next frame

I have a multistep form dialog. Each step to be taken in the dialog is an instance of one component. I have the main component on a separate Figma page within the file. I have 3 frames. Frame 1: Empty Screen Frame 2: Add item multistep dialog Frame 3: Added content appears on screen. The last step of the dialog [Add] is intended to navigate to the next frame which contains the content the user has added. When I select the instance of the dialog and switch it to the last instance which shows the [Add] button and I connect its action to the next frame it appears to do what I hope it to. However, when testing the interactions. the last [Add] button does not respect the interaction I set. It appears to reset to the main components interactions (which are empty on the last step of the [Add] button) Is there some tip or trick I am missing. I know I can try workarounds but I am wondering if there is a setting i am missing. Crude representation of my issue. https://www.figma.com/file/WMVEvY86q

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B
11 months ago
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Vanessa_Perez-Robles
asked in Ask the Community
Connecting a bluetooth scanner into a figma prototypr

I’m working on a prototype for an app that will be connected to a hand-held bluetooth scanner and I’m wondering if there is anyway for Figma to register a bluetooth scan as a “click” or “key/gamepad” to trigger the next screen? Not sure if this is even possible but would love the help if so!

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11 months ago
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annack
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Why won't my dropdown menu text highlight when on hover?

I believe I have everything set up properly as the other navigation buttons light up on hover, but the dropdown section of the nav isn’t doing the same when the menu drops down. Any help would be much appreciated - I’ve been stuck on this forever!

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11 months ago
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Gloria_Medwedew
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Can't see styles after the forced upgrade to professional

After the somehow forced upgrade to professional (as Figma is established in the current project and I need the Dev Mode) I can’t see any styles anymore in Dev Mode. I cleared the cache, reloaded the page, opened the project in the standalone app. All didn’t work. Maybe someone has some hint for me how I can get back the styles? Regards, Gloria

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ksn
Figmate
11 months ago
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Mira1
asked in Ask the Community
Просмотр фрейма мобильной версии

Добрый день! Подскажи новичку, наверняка глупый вопрос, но все же 🙂 Сделала фрейм в ширину 375px, открыла в просмотре на iphone 15 pro max, а дизайн на четверть экрана…что будет вообще в дальнейшем с этим макетом, когда его будут смотреть с телефона? И как мне может это исправить, чтобы просмотр был во весь экран? Спасибо!

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dvaliao
Figmate
11 months ago
Perez_Mariana_Mari_IPESD
Perez_Mariana_Mari_IPESD
asked in Ask the Community
Swap libraries: styles are updated, but not images

Hi everyone, I’ve read other posts about issues related to Swap Libraries but didn’t find anyone talking about problems when swapping images. What I have I have a Style Library file where I manage the color styles and images, all linked to the components of a Design System file. The components of this Design System are being consumed in another file, The Mockup file., where I have the user flows and scenarios. The Style Library + Mockup File are my templates, which I’ll customize for different clients. My Problem When I duplicate the files to customize the styles and images and swap them to the duplicated Mockup file, all the color styles change properly, but not the images in some components. What I understood so far Those images are in components that have variants. I read in some posts here about some issues related to styles being ignored on instances that are part of a variant component set. But in my case, only the images in those particular components are being ignored. There ar

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dvaliao
Figmate
11 months ago
Joseph_Marafioti
Joseph_Marafioti
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Where is the Fonts Installer in my Settings? (Trying to FIX missing fonts issue)

Where is the Fonts Installer via my settings as I cannot see this. I am on an Organizational Plan. Looking online I can see that it is there as someone else has posted But in my Figma Settings, it’s not there This is in relation to this issue with missing fonts as posted here, which seems to be a problem unsolved Local fonts completely neglected, all of sudden Ask the community I recently upgraded my figma desktop. It suddenly showed “missing fonts” window to every component i used any local font. I reboot, reinstalled all the figma desktop and local font files. This is happening in the Windows dekstop and my Macbook at the same time. I also changed the type of the font file(ttf, otf etc.) but it didn’t change anything. [image] Does anyone have similar issue? Other teammates are also suffering the same… Someone has suggested this here, HOPING this will fix the issue.

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Joseph_Marafioti
11 months ago
Gabriel_Lessor
Gabriel_Lessor
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Interactive component animation won't work if triggered to open overlay

I searched for a solution but can’t seem to find one. Animation works if placed on a screen but when connected to open an overlay, it does not.

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dvaliao
Figmate
11 months ago
lvicks
lvicks
asked in Ask the Community
Is there a shared prototype API? Goal is to augment a prototype

Hello, I’d like to understand if there is a API or any way to access state information from an anonymously (password protected) shared prototype. For example, lets say I’m trying to prototype an IOT environment where a light turns on when the user successfully navigates to a specific prototype frame. I can imagine two ways to do this: Wrapping the prototype in an iframe and being notified through the window variable on the current frame_id. (I know it would require storing a mapping of frame_ids, which is fine). Inserting some custom javascript code into the prototype frame that can trigger when the frame is hit. Does anyone know if this is possible or if there are any plans for this? Offering even basic extendability of the prototype can really increase the usefulness of Figma Prototypes. Thanks!

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A
11 months ago
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sunshahuan
asked in Ask the Community
How to make the responsive components stretching along with the grid layout?

“Hi everyone! 👋 I’ve recently learned how to use auto layout to create responsive components and grid/constraint layouts to make a page responsive. I tried to combine these techniques to create a responsive page, but it didn’t seem to work. My responsive components didn’t respond and stretch along with the layout. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible and how to achieve it?” Thanks a lot!

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Sha_Huan_Sun
11 months ago
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