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Hello everyone!! Pulling my hair out. I have a series of photos I want the user to choose from. The user clicks on the photo, and it cycles through photos. After that point in the user flow, all recurring instances display that photo. HOWEVER i want to disable the ability for the user to click on that photo to change it in any following instance. How do I do this?? Thank you so much to anyone who can answer!!! =D =D

Hi! I just built a more or less complex Header Component that is supposed to replace the old Header. I was quite sure that there is a way to just replace the old Header with the new one and keep the old ID so the reference to all the instances used will be kept. Hm…seems like it’s not as easy a task as I thought. Does anyone know how to replace the Master Comp without loosing the ID ? Thanks!

So I have this prototype where I’m supposed to click on a radio button to change it from unselected to selected, I made the animation but if I click on a button to select it, the second one is shown as also selected on another frame. I guess that violet square is showing me where I’m using the exact same button but it’s the first time I’ve seen this. Can someone tell me why it’s this happening? The right thing would be to select one button on the first frame, and to select another button on the second frame and so one, they shouldn’t be already selected on every frame 😦

Hello people! Something changed in the direct click-select (CTRL click here on Windows), so that Figma seems to be deciding somehow which levels of Frames are directly selectable or not. It happens only to Frames, and I couldn´t figure out the rule. This is making it really hard for me to manipulate deeper Frames, forcing me to select neighbors or contained items, or to use the keyboard and the “Layers” panel as I never had to. Is it a bug or something I will have to learn, notice, think, adapt and change all my working files? Thanks!

I am trying to create a table, but there seems to be an AI option attached to the parent frame that I can’t turn off. If I add another table row, it puts the new row above the first one. I checked the stacking order, but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

For some reason my Clip Content is only being applied when I move an element outside of the side perimeter of the phone frame but it won’t clip if I move the same element past the bottom of the screen/frame. See examples

I’m building a demo of some on-hover nav menus and tooltips. I’m able to setup a few, but after 3 or 4, “while hovering” becomes disabled for new interactions. I’m at a loss to explain this.

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Can anybody please tell me what this icon means and how to change it back to a normal image.

Prior to the update I was able to change my cursor from a mouse to a circular touch cursor for my prototypes and now its seemingly gone after the update? Will that come back? I love this feature as I’m constantly creating prototypes for devices that aren’t available under the devices options.

To give some context, I have a design library with colors and elements. I work in other files for different designs. When I updated my library color to a new main color, I got the warning that my modules and colors had been changed. After I updated all of them, they all say that the new color has been selected, but I can see it’s the old color. When I choose another color in the library and back to the same color – it updates! But I have to now manually go into all of them and select my color, swap it to another one and then back again. How come it doesn’t actually update it as it said it did?

Right now our team is designing for multiple screens basically a webapp , So I was wondering whether there is a simpler way to create design a design and reflect the same to bigger screen size. ( for eg - creating a web app design and reflecting the same to the website ) without any major work. Is it possible? Thank you in advance for your help.

I’m hoping to set up variables and expressions for my icon toggle button, so the outlined icon I swap with my placeholder will automatically go from outline to filled and vice versa when the icon button is selected or unselected. In my current setup, if I swap the default outline icon with something else, the outline icon is kept as a preserved override, even when I change state from unselected to selected. For example, if I swap my outline placeholder with an outline heart or an unchecked checkbox, how can I setup variables / variable prototype interactions so that when my toggle button goes from unselected to selected, the nested icon will go from outline to filled? Any help is much appreciated.

I have been uploading my jamboards to FigJam. After uploading them all I noticed I had random markings all over my slides. They look like leftover pen marks from when I wrote on my jamboards. However all of my jamboards are erased. Some of them allow me to take all the markings on the page and delete them. Some force me to select each individual mark of which there are tons and delete them individually. As a teacher I do NOT have time for this. And Jamboard expires soon. Does anyone know a fix so the uploads come out correctly? Thank you

Hi! I’m trying to create a dropdown button and it’s composed of the main button and a trailing button that behave seperatly from each other. When I come to change the size, it keeps overwhiting to the default color BUT when I go into the nested elements, the selected variants are the correct ones. I checked a lot of stuff in the community and tried having each componenet in an auto-layout frame and named all the layers similarly. Is this a bug? Here is a video showcasing the problem.

Hi. We have encountered a situation where we need to transfer copies of project files to a client. We need all changes in our source libraries to be updated in the client’s copy of files too. Does anyone know how to do this?

I’m going to design a UI app for iPhone, but I’ve found; On Figma, iPhone-14 dimensions are 390x844, but when I screenshot from my phone the dimensions are 1170 × 2532. What dimensions are correct? What dimensions do you start to work with as a professional mobile app designer?

Hi! I am having an issue with reseting the blinking component state. It only blinks once when I click in the first dropdown. The second time it’s not blinking and remembering the last state of the blinking component. Here is the link.

I have a question: I have several components in the vertical auto layout. The very top component has a drop shadow. The issue is that it’s not respecting the order, and the shadow spreads blow all the components instead of on top. I am trying to simulate z index(es) with shadows.

Hello! It’s been a while and I haven’t received the UI 3 update even though I joined the waitlist about 1-2 days after it was announced. Most people have got it despite when they joined the waitlist but I have not, is it because of my plan?

Is there a way to manually transfer ownership of a team/project after that member has left the company. We may be able to get access to their figma login, but ideally there should be a way to manually override within Figma?

Hello, i would like to know, how can i use UI3 new features. i´ve been waiting for the update but until now, nothing… i have a student account, i think i join the waiting list right in june. Can you please help? im a bit ansious 🙂

My educational plan is expiring and I have since graduated. Prompt form Figma says to either upgrade to professional plan, verify educational status or since any teams will become disabled: retain view access to files by moving them to drafts. However it appears that there is no longer a drafts section outside of the separate teams- so if I have to move the files to drafts, I would have to move them to the drafts section of a team - but the teams are going to become disabled when the account is downgraded to started from educational plan! So where do I need to move the files in order to retain them for editing after my account is downgraded to starter pman from educational?

Hey all I have a Figma file that’s just functioning as Local Variables holder, which then is consumed by other files. I have 3 variable modes (Light, Dark, High Contrast) each has around 700 variables. So 700 x 3 in total. Initial publish was OK, but any changes I do now are almost impossible to publish. The system seems like it’s stuck, as I can always press the “Publish library” button. It always states there’s 700 changes, even tho I changed 1 colour variable. And when I publish it, it processes around 100 of these changes and then stops. Then I can push “Publish” again, but it just does the same thing again. Basically, it seems like it’s stuck publishing such a big colour library. There are no actual components in this file, just colour variables. What can I do? How do I bang it back into working?

What to do if there’s an issue with component overrides in Figma where updates to the master component do not automatically reflect in all instances. The master component was edited and saved, and while some instances updated correctly, others did not. Have you go through this situation? If so, what did you do? Any advice please…TIA