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Hello, when I practiced on the Auto Layout Playground file, I saw the constraints icon in the position panel on this topic example. However, when I created an auto layout myself, there is no constraints icon in the position panel anymore. Then I clicked other auto layout practice examples on this file and there was no constraints icon as well. Can anyone tell me how to make this icon visible? Auto layout playground: https://www.figma.com/design/9bOHuaPbYMjpKvbBgMKMQV/Auto-layout-playground?node-id=2411-1174&t=F7YExvtza1GpixXa-1

i’m not seeing drafts in teams or drafts to move section in sidebar in my account but on my other account i can see this things, kindly help me with this.

I hope this message finds you well. I’m reaching out today regarding a perplexing issue I’m encountering with a Figma prototype, note that this prototype also has videos. I’ve carefully optimized the videos, ensuring each is well below 1MB in size. Despite these efforts, I’m facing significant loading delays both on desktop and mobile, across various browsers. Even on the Figma app for mobile, it’s prompting me with the message that the prototype is large even after reducing the file sizes. To provide more context and seek help, I’m sharing the link to the prototype and artboard: Art-board Link Here are the key points: Optimization: Videos are compressed and trimmed to keep them under 1MB each. Previous Experience: I’ve successfully handled larger prototypes with normal videos in the past. Loading Issue: Regardless of the browser or device, the prototype is taking an unusual amount of time to load. I would greatly appreciate any insights, suggestions, or solutions from the community

Figma introduced some new behavior where, when you add auto layout to a parent frame, child elements of a certain width are automatically set to horizontal fill. Most of the time, this has been helpful and saves me time. However, I generally apply auto layout to my component sets to organize them better, and now when I apply auto layout to a new component set, it applies the new fill rules to the components in the set, which 99% of the time has been exactly what I don’t want to have happen. Usually I want components in the set to remain fixed width, and when they are automatically set to fill, the dimensions are often changed and I have to re-set them. It’s been a pain. So this is worth thinking about, because I’m sure the Figma team doesn’t want to introduce inconsistent behavior for automatically applying auto layout, but in the context of working with component sets I do not want these things to be happening automatically.

I paid for Professional months ago (I’ve got the receipts), but when I go to Figma, it keeps showing me “uprgrade to Professional.” I’ve emailed support over a week ago with multiple follow ups, even called from the phone number on the invoice, but have yet to get any reply. How can I get help? Is anyone supporting the Support email (which we’re told to contact for questions)? I know this is a little snarky, but shouldn’t the UX and e2e experience of Figma also extend to customer’s interaction with Figma too? Happy to provide feedback on the experience and how it can be improved should anyone be interested in hearing customers’ feedback 😃

This frame has a 5 degree rotation. It is under 100% zoom. Everything is jagged, especially the SVG icons and their strokes. The web prototype looks the same. Why is this happening, and what can I do about it? Is there an anti-aliasing setting that needs to be turned on on? Possibly related to Weird font antialiasing since today ?

I am using the owner account of the team. But the owner account email is my personal email, so I’m going to change it to a team-sharing email. If you do Account > change email, the mail changes, but all existing team files and permissions disappear. Can’t I change the owner account email while keeping the file?

After adding a line to the frame the “advanced stroke setting” three dots are not visible. Does anyone know why this might be?

All my drafts are deleted after moving 1 draft to the team space. I can’t other drafts. Links show 404.

My company recently changed our email domain, so my email address changed too. Now, when I log into Figma using Google SSO with the new email, it treats me as a new user and I can’t access any of my old files. The old email is deactivated, so I can’t log in with it anymore to transfer files or anything like that. I submitted a support ticket to Figma a week ago, but I haven’t heard back yet. Does anyone know how I can get my old files transferred to my new email? Thanks in advance!

Can not open any file or tutorials, after about 30s it’ll return to the dashboard and show an error message “an error occurred while opening editor”

Hi guys today I opened Figma and then found ALL of my files missing(as pictures in the following). I have checked the recently deleted, drafts all the spaces, still wouldn’t find any of my files. Is it my fault that I didn’t sort every file into team space and left them all in “recents”? Super panic right now hope anyone would give me advices

Hi Figma community! I have this advance button interaction that opens an overlay for the user to go into another UI flow. but I wanted the button to go back to its “incomplete” state (Orange badge) when the overlay is closed and not to go into the “complete” state (Green badge). here’s what I did using conditional prototyping (I’m still new to this): If Click (boolean) open overlay change to = Complete else [empty] here is the video I made regarding the problem I faced: help - figma

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Hi, We are integrating with Figma as part of our SSPM solution and need access to an API for organization settings and accounts, similar to the one used by the UI. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find documentation for this API. Is it possible to use a PAT (Personal Access Token) of an admin for this purpose? If not, do you have any plans to support this functionality? Thanks!

I am working on a logo for a client and i am trying to Exclude both vectors but whenever i try that one vector tends to disappear and i dont want that.

I am getting this error message when I try to add a FigJam or Figma file to a Google Calendar event: Something’s gone wrong It looks like we’re having issues-mind trying that again? If you keep having trouble, contact us. Try again Thank you for any help you can provide.

Wouldn’t be great if Figma put the file thumbnail size frame in the presets? It will gonna save some clicks for me.

Hi, in the plugin API, at initialization, i’m loading fonts with loadFontAsync this way await figma.loadFontAsync({ family: "Baloo Paaji 2", style: "Medium" }); await figma.loadFontAsync({ family: "Baloo Paaji 2", style: "Regular" }); //about 10 loads like this one is there a faster way to do a bulk load, something where i would pass all the parameters at once in an array ? Thanks in advance.

Is anyone using slide deck in Figma ? Is it able to import certain assets that I’ve created in another Figma board for collaboration?

Hi everyone! first time here and thought I’d come here for help. I am trying to create a multi select component to add to an app im working on but I am a little stuck. I want the user to be able to select more than one profile however when I prototype to check my progress it won’t let me. It’s hard to explain what the issue is so im going to attach my prototype so you can understand. I feel i’m missing a simple interaction but I will be honest and say i’m not sure on what, im still fairly new to Figma. Any help would be appreciated! View prototype here. And here is an image on how I have my variants and interactions set up. The interaction are essentially on tap, change to and then the respective variant.

So I’m trying to have a blurred background that is fixed while scrolling, but i also have a pagination element that would also blur the background. when scrolling, the pagination doesnt continue behind the elements on the page, and you can then see the background’s background, if that makes sense. Also I dont know where the white shadow is coming from at the bottom of the prototype screen. Figma – 25 Oct 23

How do I shift the focus from the plugin over to the app after I’ve executed some actions on the document through the plugin? I want to avoid having to click on the document every time I have to undo. Currently the focus still stays on the plugin after I’ve clicked a button in it - hence “command + z” doesn’t work.

Hi! I am building a plugin that exports svg templates to be used by another tool. The other tool only accepts svg paths with the default fill-rule of “nonzero” to identify subpaths for cutouts & non-filled areas. I discovered that paths derived from shapes (rect, ellipse, polygon) with outlined strokes generate svg paths with a fill-rule of “evenodd” & all subpaths are drawn/wound in the same direction (counter-clockwise), which is not compatible with the tool. Paths created with the pen tool, with outlined strokes generate paths with alternating draw/winding directions, which works. I’d love to be able to export compatible basic paths using outlined shapes, so my question is: Is there an ability in the plugin API to choose fill-rules or path winding directions, or is this an intentional feature of Figma’s svg generator? Thanks!

I understand that no one creates frames using the “Android Small” or “Android Large” size when designing UI on Figma, but I noticed that “Android Large” uses the size 360 x 800, which is not representative of reality. Currently, most smartphones have a width of 411, and the height can vary depending on the aspect ratio of the screen. For example: Google Pixel 8: 411 x 914 Google Pixel 8 Pro: 448 x 997 If you need information for other Android Form Factors such as Watch or Tablet, feel free to tell me. I’d be happy to provide that information.