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My Figma Education Plan is expiring soon and I had received a mail regarding the same. However, I wish to renew my Education Plan because Im not graduate yet and I still need to use Figma for my school projects. Whenever I click on the option of “Verify your Education Status” it is redirects me to the Verification page, however the page says this after I submit the form: “Verification Failed" How do I renew my Education Status?

Is it possible to use a variable in the measure tool in the new Dev Mode update?

I have an OAuth link for google authentication Looks like this: https://api.x.xx.com/v1/oauth/google (NOT THE ACTUAL API) I need to use this link to open a browser window, which on opening shows the google provider screen showing our google accounts. I have done till that using window.open(url) method. Now, on pressing a google account of ours, I need to obtain the user details and send these details to the figma plugin somehow. So like communicating or sending data between a browser window and my figma plugin. How do i do that?

Hello! Does anyone know how to distribute object equally in circle. For example the small circle on the big circle on the picture uploaded ?

I have found many posts raising this issue, but none that have solved it. When I export Frames to PDF the file cannot be opened by Acrobat. Acrobat dialog box says: “An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem” Weirdly, it can easily be opened in Apple Preview. But my clients are not on Macs, and they have to be be able to open these files in Acrobat. Has anyone found a solution for this?

Is it possible to change user seat license in bulk? I have a CSV of member names that I want to change from viewer to full.

Is it possible to have a table with a border and the rows scroll beyond the fold while the header is sticky? There should be additional space below the table as well. I can get the space to show if the table doesn’t have a stroke but if it contains a stroke the bottom padding is below the last row but inside the stroke. I’ve attached a mockup of what I’m trying to achieve.

Show two different style above and below

I would like to make a query via API to return the number of licenses, total used and remaining

Hi, I just downloaded the latest Figma update. Now it does not open anymore, I just see the loading indicator of the mac cursor and nothing happens. I also tried to download and reinstall Figma, but that did not work either. Does anyone have the same problem and could fix it?

How exactly do you detach a variable from a layer without deleting it from your local variables list? Right now you have to make the entire thing from scratch or am I missing something?

Can anyone help? I’ve been developing the Figma screens which have been working fine when viewing in prototype mode (e.g. on a specific device) but suddenly when I now run the preview mode, all the settings seem to be lost and the components come out all over the show on the preview screen. Any ideas how to fix?

It looks like the token endpoint: https://www.figma.com/api/oauth/token is returning an undocumented user_id field which is different from the id on the users endpoint: /v1/me Is this an internal ID that shouldn’t be exposed, or should it be documented? POST https://www.figma.com/api/oauth/token? client_id=:client_id& client_secret=:client_secret& redirect_uri=:callback& code=:code& grant_type=authorization_code { "access_token": <TOKEN>, "expires_in": <EXPIRATION (in seconds)>, "user_id": <ID>, "refresh_token": <REFRESH TOKEN> }

Hi, I’d like to know the license of the rest API documentation https://www.figma.com/developers/api I’m developing a client for the rest API data structures, and I would like to know if I can reuse documentation text within my project. My project is MIT licensed. Thanks, Chris

Hi, Previously I joined a team that was an educational team and need every joiner to have an education account. But now I am no longer an educational account. So I can’t really delete , edit or move any of my files in draft of that team. I wonder if I leave this team, will the files in draft of that team move to “Drafts to move” so that I can move them to my personal team? Thanks in advance!

Hey! I’m unable to launch the “Present” mode anymore with my bigger files. This happened today, immediately after I updated Figma. It just hangs in the loading stage with the progress bar stuck. I can “Present” smaller files though, so this must be memory related issue that surfaced after the latest update?

I see a new interface only for Slides functionality, but can I use all new features (as AI) also in regular file UI?

What is the best documentation formatting approach when we do ux auditing? Would you like to share any references or guidelines?

Hi there. I’m trying to figure out how I can design a dropdown menu component which is not affected by the layers stacking order. Actually, my design system is a kind of a lot of Russian dolls, with component instance customization everywhere. I’ve created a little sandbox file to demonstrate what’s possible, it’s here:Figma – 19 Jun 24 The stacking order indicator is made by the red rectangle. On the left, a dropdown menu which is affected by the layer stacking order, but has some advantages : auto-layout can adjust the menu width…convenient. On the right: the same dropdown menu but this one is not affected by the stacking order. Nice but some problems: the overlay is not managed by the same auto-layout of the selector, so difficult to make its width easily affected Look at the position of the overlay in the prototype interaction → totally impossible to figure out how to set the position of the overlay…or there is something I didn’t catch Feel free to comment, share your thoughts,

Seems like recently the API has changed and has a bug now. Because it used to work around a month ago. We have icons that have a stroke set. The svg export from Figma UI gives icons with stroke but the export from Figma images API gives icons with fill instead of stroke. The UI export gives stroke: <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M8 5.03334V8M8 10.0238V10M14.5 8C14.5 11.5899 11.5899 14.5 8 14.5C4.41015 14.5 1.5 11.5899 1.5 8C1.5 4.41015 4.41015 1.5 8 1.5C11.5899 1.5 14.5 4.41015 14.5 8Z" stroke="#061213" stroke-opacity="0.99" stroke-width="1.2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"/> </svg> Old api export used to work fine (giving stroke): https://figma-alpha-api.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/images/e2c4c862-2627-4a00-bf8c-9c1f6bd9050d New api export gives fills instead for the same icon: https://figma-alpha-api.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/images/25de9268-e518-4cb1-94f2-49bd1ac34a08 Does so

I ahve had this prototype sitting for a little bit and it hasn’t had this issue at all up until now. When I go to view the Hi-fi prototype of this app design most of the components are squished beyond recognition and scattered randomly around the screen. When I go to design mode I find no complications whatsoever, only when presentation mode is enabled. I’ve tried changing the prototyping device and scale but that doesn’t seem to help whatsoever.

Since the Config, none of my prototypes work properly anymore. Sometimes they work perfectly fine, but if I wait too long or act too quickly, all my “buttons” don’t work and are not in the right place. The only way everything works normally like before is in the “Mirroring” section. However, the prototypes don’t work. It’s very weird.

Seems like theres a bug or I am not understanding how to exit my presentation when I click the Play button/View Prototype button. I have to close the application (Using an 2021 iPad Pro) everytime I need to exit from viewing the prototype.

I’m a designer working on web UI. I want to hand some style parameters to a developer. Historically I’ve done this by going to ‘Inspect’, which was next to ‘Design’ and ‘Prototype’. I’m aware that dev mode now has a cost implication, but Inspect was always a functioning solution. Has this feature now been paywalled? What is the solution to my problem? Thanks for your time in advance.

I currently have a Figma for Education (free) account, and am having trouble publishing a component library. Whenever I try, I get a popup that says “Your plan does not support team libraries. Professional lets you share styles, components, and variables.” However, THIS PAGE and multiple others indicate that users with an education plan can sometimes publish a component library (“Education plan: Team members with can edit team permissions can publish a library.”), but doesn’t offer any info on how to reach those settings. Thank you very much for your help!