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Hi! I hope this message finds you well. I am experiencing an issue with the page duplication feature in Figma. When I duplicate a page, I am often redirected to the beginning of the file instead of being taken to the newly duplicated page. This behavior is inconsistent, as sometimes I am correctly redirected to the duplicated page, but most of the time, I am taken to the file’s start. Previously, when duplicating a page, I was always redirected to the newly created page, which was very convenient. This recent change is affecting my workflow efficiency. Here are the steps to reproduce the issue: Open a file with multiple pages. Duplicate any page. Observe that you are often redirected to the beginning of the file instead of the duplicated page. Additional Information: I am using Figma desktop app. I have tried clearing the cache and restarting Figma, but the issue persists. This problem occurs across different projects and files. Could you please look into this issue and provide a s

Is there something i’m missing? When I’m using the color panel from Fill (or stroke) the panel closes after choosing a color. When I’m using the “selection color” panel the panel stays open. In my opinion the behaviour should be the same between to two, and I would prefer the panel to stay open. Here is a video that shows ‘the problem’ -update- It looks like the behaviour is even more wierd than I thought. When choosing color variables the panel stays open. But when I choose a style the panel also instantly closes… Leaning more towards a bug now than a suggestion for improvement.

This is a small nitpick, but if I close the Variables window and reopen it, every variable I’ve created is expanded (shows every sub-folder). There is no way to auto-collapse all of the folders. When building a large library of variables this is extremely annoying, as I have to close every folder manually. Wondering if there is a fix or at least eventually an option to “collapse all” coming for this?

A person with owner permission on a Figma file left the company and I, as an administrator, cannot delete that person’s account. How can I delete this person’s Figma account?

I have an accordion menu in the footer of my mobile design. Right now when you use the accordion it expands below what is scrollable. I either do this or I add a bunch of empty space at the bottom of the page for the accordion to expand into. When using the prototype, I want the frame to expand when the accordion expands.

Hola, donde trabajo compraron el plan profesional de Figma para un proyecto, actualmente yo tengo la administración y necesito ceder el permiso de edición a otras personas del equipo. Mi pregunta es siempre, que le de permiso de edición a otra persona, es un pago adicional de asiento de diseño? porque en realidad solo necesito que pueda editar uno de los tableros.

A colleague of mine seems to have posted a lot of code into FigJam by copying from a Figma file (copy as code) and the file crashed. When trying to enter recovery mode it just tries to load but them gets stuck on loop and never fully loads so I can’t view version history. Anyone had this problem?

When clicking “share” the modal is not fully loading…both from within a file and from the files overview page. Side note - the reason i am doing this at all, is because all these files are in a “read only publicly visible Figma project” with hundreds of viewers. I want to grant permission to a team member to edit files in this project but it seems (when searching here on the forum) that if a project is set to “read only” setting edit access on that level to an individual won’t work … seems illogical to me.

I export pdfs and bring them into indesign for routing… one page is fine, other looks ok but when imported it is blank every time.

Guys I cannot go back to UI2 from UI3 on my new Figma account. I am missing “go back to previous UI” option on my help menu. I heard that lately created accounts(after 2024 June maybe) are automatically installed as UI3 version, and I guess this is the reason… Seriously, is there NO way at all to get back to UI2 for new account users? (+Unfortunately the redesigned UI is quite uncomfortable to use, it severely hinders my productivity.)

Greetings from a newbie! I cannot get a call to Figma.getNodeByIdAsync() to work. Could anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I have searched this forum and referred to a sample plugin go-to that uses this function, but I am still stuck. Below is my simplified code just for checking this functionality. When I run it as part of the plugin, console logs #1 and #2 are generated but not #3, and the console returns to the ‘>’ prompt. Thank you!

I have a free student account, and I just tried publishing the library so I can use it and the assets still appear as empty. What am i missing? Help!!

I want to create a prototype in Figma when user hover on card then card slowly move up. Suppose we have three cards: one at the top, the other at the middle of the card, and 3 on the last card. when we hover on the top card then our top card slowly move up. How I create this prototype in Figma. For this I find solutions that of AI that change position of second variants but its not working

I am exporting a Figma file in PDF, and the gradients on the font show up as solid color on the preview of the file (see the screenshots of how it’s supposed to look like and preview below). Need this project exported properly ASAP, can someone help and tell me what’s the issue and how to make sure the gradient shows up properly? Much appreciated!

I’m working on a system that will run on a 2x3 multi screen monitor, and would like to prototype it displaying different frames on each screen. Is that possible? Link to example monitor here - https://images10.newegg.com/ProductImage/24-001-429-04.jpg Only way I can figure out so far is very manual - export the frames then place an image of each frame onto the corresponding screen, then present that single device screen. Will work, but nowhere near as cool to show off.

Hi, Please could someone tell me how to disconnect 2 shapes as per image. Thank you!

Hi everyone. I wonder what size the bullet that use in Figma? Does it use as % from font size or just use same as font size? Because when developer use bullet as %, the result turn out that same font size with difference bullet size.

Hi all, it seems like some of my design content went past the vertical limit on my Figma canvas. I’m not sure how the canvas would have allowed me to put anything beyond its boundary, but now I can’t retrieve the content since I can’t scroll up far enough. The scroll bar indicates that I have room to scroll vertically, but I am being blocked from doing so, like I hit an invisible wall. Is there any way to retrieve that content that I can’t currently access? I have restarted Figma a few times, but have not deleted my app cache yet. Any thoughts on troubleshooting would be much appreciated!

Hi! I’m creating a design system and building a Figma library for it. I can’t seem to find any info on how to handle ‘inverted’ color situations. I don’t mean a system-wide or application-wide dark mode, I just mean when components are placed on darker backgrounds within an otherwise light-mode context. I’ve seen other design systems include it in their documentation (e.g. use the inverted color variant when a button when placed on a strong background), but I rarely see anyone doing it in Figma, be it in the Variables or the Components. Is everyone just switching modes on the frame level to handle these cases? Is that bad practice when it comes to collaboration with dev? Should I be making inverted variants for my components? This would basically double the number of variants…help! I currently have inverted color tokens as part of my light mode token set. But this basically doubles my tokens.

I am working on a ‘quiz’ type project, just starting to play around more with variables and conditionals so that my prototype can be more life-like for demo. I made the options in the quiz so that only one answer can be selected at a time, I also made it so that the next button could only be activated and used if an answer is selected. I was having issues that if ‘variable 2’ was selected on frame 1, then on frame 2 it would still be selected automatically instead of reset to default as it should be. I checked reset component state: But the issue is still persisting and I cant find any other solution other than setting conditions on every next button that says if nextbutton is equal to true navigate to {next frame} and set variable 1,2,3… etc. to false. Is there any easier way to fix this? If I go with this long solution it wont remember which was selected on the page if user navigates to previous page, but I would prioritize reseting the buttons on the next page over it remembering

Hi, i have a frame with input text and a textarea. In Protoytpe mode it is not possible to enter text in these fields. is that normal or should it be possible or is it a pro feature? thanks daniel

I am trying to learn how to use Figma, when it comes to Text part, I don’t find the option to adjusing the paragraph spacing like others do in the video, how should I adjust it?

Hey, I have some duplicate screens in my Figma file and I frequently need to update them. Rather than having to update each duplicate screen individually, is there a way to create a “master” screen design that functions like a component? In other words, if I make updates to the master screen, those changes would automatically apply to the duplicate screens. Is this a possibility? Thanks!

It seems a little inconsistent but why is it that sometimes when updating a component by addions (and not deleting or replacing anything) that the update overrides copy or settings to the components Specific example: I created a card component with a simple layout heading, instance swap area and options like scroll and pagination as booleans. I went on using the card and came across scenarios where I aslo needed a search bar- so I went to add it and gave it a boolean as well. My issue: Receiving the update in my design file overrode all my card heading’s copy to the default. Why is that if I literally only added a new element? I can understand having to go and turn off the new search boolean on my existing copies (although I think more could be done to help avoid that it does seem avoidable- I would rather go turn it on in the places where )

Hi all. The following arrow design was created. exportAsync() was used to retrieve the arrow image. The following image shows it. How do I get an image that is not missing?