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First of all: I am an Org Admin. At the moment I am having several difficulties with roles and rights for teams and projects. For some time now, several teams have not had an owner assigned. In two of the teams, an external employee who is no longer in the project was previously the owner. After he left, the account was deleted. Now these projects no longer have an owner. However, I would like to assign one or define myself as the owner. However, this is not possible using the known methods outlined in various other community questions. Not even by experimentally leaving the team. I no longer have any access to another team. Although I am an Org Admin, I can neither manage nor join the team. As far as I know, the team has another member, but with viewer rights, not an admin. What should I do?

I have a problem with a text component that has a simple hover effect which changes the font. When I integrate this text component into my navigation component and duplicate it, changing the text for different navigation items, the hover effect does not display correctly on other computers in the prototype. The fonts used are custom fonts provided by the client. These fonts are used elsewhere in my Figma file and display correctly. The issue with the font not displaying properly only occurs when I duplicate the text component and change the text. Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to create a new component for each navigation item?

Even my screen doesnot show properly i choose 1440*900 screen for prototyping even try full width and also full width with height. Also content doesnot show correctly it shows in a small screen in top of page even its on middle in my design

I’d love to see the text decoration on the side panel. It’s super handy, especially with so many text styles.

I use the Magic Mouse as a trackpad. However, sometimes it mistakenly recognizes the touch input as a zoom gesture instead of a screen movement, which is inconvenient. Anyone have a solution to avoid this problem?

Working on a simple Fig file. I have a couple of design pages in it with some shape blocking for a new app. The blocks are all inside a Layout. Everything was working fine. Making edits I tried to select and resize one of the objects inside the layout, suddenly I can’t move or resize any object inside the layout. Then suddenly I could, then it stopped again and nothing I do can unwind it. It’s almost like the layout is locked, but it isn’t…? I also can’t move the objects inside the layout outside of the layout to work with them. Super frustrating… basically this has blown up my workflow. Is there a bug related to layouts in Fig files? Is there a way to unwind this? Thanks, Rick

Im not sure if it’s a bug or something, but adding a layer blur to an object that has some sort of blending mode set, will just reset it back to normal… at least visually. It’s still set as the blending mode i set it to, it just acts as if it were set to normal; im not really sure if there’s a way to fix it

Does anybody know a good C++ plugin for Figma Dev mode? CSS and two mobile languages are not cutting it. I tried searching the plugin browser but couldn’t find anything useful. Thanks!

Is there a way to have 2 frames in a parent where the parent still responsively hugs both children? For example, I’m trying to create a button, but I want more control over the state layer separate from the label frame. But… I still want state layer’s width to change. I cannot figure out how to make the frames separate, but “equal”

Please I could use some guidance, I didn’t delete the drafts and they aren’t in the deleted files folder or nowhere to be found. Until yesterday I could see and use the drafts without any problems and today they are gone. Please help what do you think I could recover them or instead should I look for a Figma alternative where files just don’t disappear?

In dev mode if I click an element it is automatically zooming into that element without pressing the “Zoom to selection” shortcut. I don’t like this behaviour but I can’t find an option to turn it off. Below is a screen recording showing the behaviour. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RKgfwaZXr6E8moKTLryWXgAT37FLp8ig/view?usp=sharing

Hi, i’m having problems to create a right sidebar such as a left sidebar, somebody already made one of those?

I’ll start from the beginning, I had a regular account and I worked in it quietly, later when I transferred the order to the developer I created a team and transferred the project to it and paid the subscription so that the developer could use the full functionality of Figma, after 3 months the project was finished and I stopped the subscription. And then I needed one of my big educational projects (I worked on it for more than half a year) and what was my surprise when I couldn’t find it. Another person had access to this project and I asked him “Could you have accidentally deleted it?”. Look in the recycle bin, etc., to which I received an unequivocal answer that nothing like that had happened. My CV was also in Figma today I needed to change it a bit but I couldn’t find it either! 😦 Please help me to get back at least my main project, I gave all the necessary information in the request [#1059529]. Please help me, thank you! I couldn’t delete a project and then additionally

Hi there! I’ve seen a few old posts about this request, but wanted to revive the topic in a brand new post. In my company, we make a lot of images composed of UI interfaces with text (an admin for instance), that we need to localize in many locales. We used plugins in the past, but it’s very manual: we need to put every key in a spreadsheet, send it to a localization service, get the spreadsheet back, generate images, export… We are looking for a dynamic service hat could be called via an API: being able to programmatically export a dynamic asset, with provided strings. The layout of the asset would also be dynamic by nature (E.g. if a text is in a button, the dynamic text would resize the button as well, depending on the length of the string). We would take care of caching the image in our own CDN, so we don’t hit the Figma API on every request. That feature would drastically improve our workflow, and save us bunch of time. Let me know! Thanks, Arnaud

Hi, So I’m helping my brother build a website for his custom kitchen/office design and install company. I used relume to make the wireframe and sitemap. So far so good. I’m trying to include a feature that isn’t so simple but I think will help him stand out from competition. Basically, I want to create an interactive room builder where potential customers can pretty much draw out their room and leave notes in places for requests or to give the designers a heads up, and potentially even submit their own design and ask for a quote. But generally they’ll give they layout of their room, hit submit, my brother will get the layout and will be able to import it into the design app (2020) then send it back with his ideas. How hard would it be to make this (no coding experience) and how would you recommend i go about doing it? I’m deadset on learning how to do this just need a steer in the right direction.

Every time I create a text and use stroke also, upon exporting it and checking out my newly exported text, the top of the stoke has been cut off. Any ideas what’s going on here, or what I’m not doing right? Thanks for your help!

When using assets from a Figma File Library there doesn’t seem to be any way to update the Linked Library assets if they have already been added to a slide. So if I then need to update a component in the library and publish the library, the components do not update in the slides. It is a little frustrating to have to then reimport all the components again. And defeats the purpose of the library.

We have components we have created for a container size of 1440 using padding of 48px left and right in that grid used in ecommerce. However our marketing team needs a smaller container size 1280, where they need a padding left and right of 208 How could we use the same component and place it on 2 different frame container sizes and keep the 2 paddings for both ecommerce and Marketing usage? Can this be accomplished with variables theming. Keep in mind we do have already a token used for the padding for ecommerce to be 48px we do not want to add another token for marketing as this will blow up our already very large token set we have created using the design token plugin

There is no possible way to read text styles that are inherited from a style override in at least some cases. Please see this example:Figma – 5 Jul 24 The output we receive from v1/files/:key is the following: { "id": "1:2", "name": "Frame 1", "type": "FRAME", "scrollBehavior": "SCROLLS", "blendMode": "PASS_THROUGH", "children": [ { "id": "1:6", "name": "This is not working", "type": "TEXT", "scrollBehavior": "SCROLLS", "blendMode": "PASS_THROUGH", "absoluteBoundingBox": { "x": -43, "y": 146, "width": 377, "height": 51 }, "absoluteRenderBounds": { "x": -40.58975601196289, "y": 155.5, "width": 370.986328125, "height": 40.56817626953125 }, "constraints": { "vertical": "TOP", "horizontal": "LEFT" }, "relativeTransform": [ [ 1, 0, 247 ], [ 0, 1,

Does anyone else notice that lately, blurs in Figma have been looking wierd and almost fragmenting? Look at the screenshot I posted.

Hi all, I’m trying to create a long-ish continuous mobile web page with interactions happening on several sections of the page. I’ve figured out how to make the interactions work individually and when put it all together, I used mouse-enter. For some reason, some interactions work and some don’t. Also, the transitions between different sections seem laggy. Here’s the file. I’m not even sure if I’m going about it in the most optimal way, so please advise on how to approach the concept of several interactions on a single page. I appreciate your help!

In the last few days when using Figma, the browser frequently crashes, prompting out of memory, which was rarely encountered before last week, and the Figma file itself has not undergone any major changes, so I don’t know what’s the reason. Computer memory: 16g

The projects I am the owner of are all deleted and disappear, no one in the project can see them. The error is as follows “If you expected to see a file here you may not have permission to access it. Please ask the owner to update the file permissions and try again”. helpp meeeeeeee

It would be extremely useful to have raw SVG paths exposed for the PATH object type. Not the path outlines, just the d attribute of the path. Not having this has make the api essentially unworkable for certain things, like when the absolute smallest SVG possible is required. The only way to programmatically get the real path commands for a PATH type object is to go through the image rest api, retrieve the svg and parse it to get the d attribute.

I liked the way Design Files were displayed in the community before, when you could immediately scan the insides of the files from the main thumbnail picture. Now you need to scroll down to a similar view to scan the insides. Why would Figma do this? Feels like the main thumbnail has no purpose now.