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dv8withn8
dv8withn8
asked in Ask the Community
Renaming Library Components

We recently renamed some library components (from lower to sentence case and others in name) and we’re seeing evidence where files consuming those library components are being orphaned. Meaning Figma is treating the renamed component as an entirely new component and the consuming file is converting the previously linked component to a local one. Selecting “go to main component” will take you to the library file and prompt you to restore the missing component. This sounds like a pretty serious bug to me. Or is it meant to work this way?

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
Loran_Maes
Loran_Maes
asked in Ask the Community
Prototyping with components

So I was wondering if there was any possibility to implement simpler prototyping with components on a different page. Now you have to create the component in the page where you can use it. E.g. You create a bottom navigator menu and the homepage button will always link to the homepage frame. (the children will always navigate to that page). But having all your components in one page creates such a mess that I would love to be able to use the components in my components page to link all the children to the same frame in my design page.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Chase89
Chase89
asked in Ask the Community
Not able to select an existing local variable

I have four color palettes saved as local variants, Default (Light), Default (Dark), Accessibility (Light), and Accessibility (Dark). I have several components that have accessibility features, like toggles, that have on, off, and default and accessibility properties. I would expect to be able to change the properties with a String variable, but after creating it I cannot select it in the component menu by clicking the hexagon icon. I can however create a new identical String variable from the menu and it works, but again, I’m not able to select it with other components or if I delink it from the one it was created with. My goal is to set a frame to Accessibility (light) and the components within that frame that have accessibility features to change to those states. I can do that if I create the local variable for each component, but I can’t select one already created. I think this is a bug. Of course, the video is too large and can’t be uploaded. 🤦‍♂️

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
Luna3
Luna3
asked in Ask the Community
Variables not showing in dev mode for Strokes

Hi! I am working with Styles referencing to Variables. All variables are scoped for both Fills and Strokes. When using dev mode I can see the Style and also the Variable (var(–)) name for fills. However, for strokes and texts, I don’t get the right Var name. It shows the style instead. Example: Both the border and background use the same Style (bg/default) that is linked to a variable (neutral-bg-default). But only the background property shows the right var name.  Is anyone also facing this? Any ideas?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Ofir_Nizri
asked in Ask the Community
Prototype is lagging on mobile but works good on mac

Hey community, I have created a demo app and it’s runs perfect on my mac, but very slow and lagging on mobile (i have iPhone 14 pro) What can i do about it? Thanks 🙏🏼

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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Karinna
asked in Ask the Community
How do I copy and paste properties (such as "set variables") of one interaction inside another interaction?

It seems to me that this case was simply not considered during the release. Or maybe I’m doing something wrong… but what could be easier than copying and pasting… but in this case it’s impossible ;(

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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Kay_Wang
asked in Ask the Community
My instance in the design file doesn't align with the design component in the design system file

I’ve design a series of component of cards in different state in the design system file. And I design the frames in the User Flow file. When apply the card from the design system file, one of the card just simply looks different (lost its radius) in the User Flow file.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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Brad_Armstrong
asked in Ask the Community
Stroke around Frames and Section Box

Is anyone else noticing a feint gray stroke around the bounding box of a frame, component, and or Section Box? I don’t have any stroke styles on. Am I just being dumb?

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tank666
1 year ago
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Maurice
asked in Ask the Community
Nested component properties not always applied (synchronized)

Hello everyone, I would like to have a component called “Icon Wrapper” which is able to change the size and color (bright or dark), so I don’t have to create multiple variants for each icon. The component itself works great until i use the wrapper as a child in other components, in my case the “Screen” Component. At some point it seems to be acting randomly: Here is the link to the Figma project. I hope someone can explain the behavior to me. Is this a bug or a mistake on my side? Thank you very much!

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M
1 year ago
Ahmed_Dawoud
Ahmed_Dawoud
asked in Ask the Community
How can I add a gradient as variable in the new June 2023 update?

Before i can add create the gradients to use it as a tokens but after the new update I couldn’t m, there’s any way to do this?

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Gyongy1
1 year ago
Malena
Malena
asked in Ask the Community
Selecting images in variable order assigning them a number

Hello! I’m looking for a solution for a prototype. I would like to simulate the photo selection feature that Instagram currently has when publishing a carousel. That is: select multiple images in the order I want and be able to assign a number to each one. The assigned number represents the order in which I select them. So far, I’ve managed to save the total number of selected photos in a numeric variable, but I can’t get the photos to have their own numbers. They all end up with the total number. How could I do that? Thank you very much!

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Malena
1 year ago
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Sarah_Asip
asked in Ask the Community
Typeface appears as one weight, and when I click into text box it changes to another lighter condensed weight

Hi! I’ve had this issues on a few different projects over the last couple of years. When designing in Figma, I will be using a type family weight throughout, for example Arial Black. It will appear as Arial Black throughout the frames, but when I click into the text box it’ll change to Arial Narrow. Like if I highlight the live text, it’ll automatically change. This is whether or not its attached to a typestyle. Does anyone have any insight into solving this issue? More often then not, it occurs when multiple people are editing the file.

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Ryan_52
Figmate
1 year ago
OleBerlin
OleBerlin
asked in Ask the Community
Bug: Auto-complete on "Pick target variable" not working

When I search for a variable name, it does not select the correct one but just the first one in the list. So when I have “variable_1”, “variable_2”, and “variable_3” and type “variable_3” in the search bar and hit ENTER, it will have selected "variable_1

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Saurav_Kattel
asked in Ask the Community
Branched Prototype keeps reloading

I created a branch from my design file to test it on user-testing.com. However, when I open the prototype link in a browser, it continuously reloads. This started this morning Nov-1. This issue is exclusive to branched files; the main file works fine.

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Ryan_52
Figmate
1 year ago
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Andy_Abelein
asked in Ask the Community
Create new Team for each new year? (Large Org, lots of files each year)

I’m wondering how different design teams handle this. I work for a large organization on a design team with about eight of us. We all work in the same marketing “Team” in Figma, so all of our design files for DTC, Social, Website, Paid Social, Email, etc. are all in the same “Team,” as we collaborate on design across channels often and need visibility to each other’s work. What I’m wondering is this: how do you keep your Figma space from getting overwhelmed by old files and projects to have to sift through when searching, while still maintaining easy access to older files and projects when needed? We had the idea of creating a new “Team” each year (“Marketing - 2022”, “Marketing- 2023”, etc) to separate older projects and have a clean slate each year? Are there other options or ideas I may not know about? Any thoughts or experiences are appreciated!

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A
1 year ago
Morgan16
Morgan16
asked in Ask the Community
How to maintain variant properties of an image when swapping image within a component

I have a blog component which contains an image. I added a property to toggle the image between black and white. I added the effect manually in by changing the saturation to 0. I need to change the image within the component for each different blog post and I do this by pasting the image into the fill of the component. When I add the new image (in colour), the component does not change the image to black and white when I switch the variant. Is it possible to replace the image within a component and maintain both variant settings of the mother image? (Saturation 100%> saturation 0%)

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Morgan16
1 year ago
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kiri
asked in Ask the Community
Low Resolution HUD on Laptop

Hi, i just bought a Nitro 5 and downloaded Figma app for Windows. But i have a problem, that when i open it Figma’s UI (HUD) looks like its in 800x600. I dont know why, because even with my old PC, that had similar screen resolution it was in better quality then this. Pls help me fix this.

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K
1 year ago
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Matej6
asked in Ask the Community
Child frame expands the parent frame

Hello everyone! I’m working with a main parent frame that contains three child frames. Within the blue frame, there are several other frames with fields and its set as a component. My goal is for the main parent frame to automatically adjust its size whenever the components inside the blue frame expand (thus the blue frame expands, but in my case the main frame does not). Any guidance on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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1 year ago
Roeloff_van_Zyl
Roeloff_van_Zyl
asked in Ask the Community
Export failed of Figma artboards

Hi, currenlty when trying to export Figma artboards I get this error: How do I fix this?

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
Geoffrey_Menissier
Geoffrey_Menissier
asked in Ask the Community
Simulating a joystick with prototype

Hello i’m trying to simulate à joystick on mobile. As there is no “drag direction” in prototype, I tried something else. On the middle screen, i have 2 clickable zones, the one on top which redirect to the left screen with “touch down”. And the bottom zone, which redirect to the right frame also on “touch down”. Left and right canvas have both a redirection to the middle when i touch up. This part above is ok. But now, I want to be able to go from left to right and right to left, when i don’t “touch up” but simply drag to the bottom (or up) and reach the other part of the joystick. I can do it on desktop with rollover, but I don’t succeed to do it on mobile. Is there a way to detect a “while hovering” but for mobile ? I also tried a “on drag” on a clickable zone, but it’s not trickeged as I’m still pressed down. thanks

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Geoffrey_Menissier
1 year ago
Nadine8
Nadine8
asked in Ask the Community
Wrong zoom shortcut behaviour in Firefox browser, Figma or Figjam

Hello, I’m Working on Firefox 118.0.2 on IOS Zoom in (⌘-) works correctly, it zooms only content. Zoom in (⌘+) zooms content but also the UI. Zoom to 100% (⌘0) doesnt work, to reset anything, I have to use the menu, then it works. The only topics I found about this are unfortunately already closed. Also, none of them deal with the browser version. I can’t put the question here in the forum as a bug, the only choice I have here is the category “plugin and widget bugs” but not the Figma or FigJam browser version. So for now I’ll ask the community. Since I am new here in the forum, maybe someone can help me where the right category is? Best regards Nadine

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Chibuike
Chibuike
asked in Ask the Community
Please why can't i find my inspect panel?

please why can’t i find my inspect panel in my Figma app?

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Linda_Pham1
Linda_Pham1
asked in Ask the Community
Components with animation speeds up when used as an instance

Hi, I have a component with two variants of a hand wave emoji. I’ve added interactions to these variants so that the hand looks like it’s waving. I’m using delay with a set speed of 200ms for the transition variables. When I pull this component from the assets and view it as a stand-alone element, the speed seems accurate. However, when I place this component into another component, and place that into yet another component, the speed of the animation speeds up when I play the prototype. Is there a reason why this happens and how would I fix this? Thanks!

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
Stefan_Schiffer
Stefan_Schiffer
asked in Ask the Community
How is data being backed up by Figma?

For compliance reasons, we have to make sure that all the data that we need to run our business is being backed up. In Figma we can export individual files, but what happens if by accident someone deletes data or if Figma itself has issues and data gets destroyed? What is subject to be backed up? All design files, incl. libraries. But also account members, teams, projects, and all other administrative data. I expect Figma to be able to restore data to a certain degree, but I couldn’t find any explicit section in the DPA or terms.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Hoby-Van-Hoose
Hoby-Van-Hoose
asked in Ask the Community
Forum votes remaining and trust level

I’ve just found out that I only have a few votes left. According to this post, it’s based on my “trust level” gleaned from my posting activity and it is unexpected for people to reach this limit. Figma Forum only allows a finite number of votes? Ask the community I just added my vote to a feature and was told that I have “two votes remaining.” What is the point of the voting feature if it’s limited? It would be one thing if we were voting on our desire for things already on Figma’s roadmap. But the point of this forum is (theoretically) for users to suggest things, and for Figma to determine which features they should add to the roadmap based on number of votes a suggestion gets from forum users. In that context, I think unlimited votes makes more sens… So that leads me to questions: What activity raises vs lowers our trust levels? I think I’m fairly active, so it doesn’t seem to just be activity in general that raises it. Is there a view in our summa

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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