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I know Slides has been around for about 5 minutes, but I can’t figure this out. Is it possible to add button interactivity to Figma Slides - like having a ‘overview’ slide with links to individual slides later in the presentation? Right now, it seems to only support linear progression. Basically, I’m looking for way to add a “jump to this section” button that skips around the presentation.

Hi everyone,I'm working on a prototype for a mobile video editing tool and trying to simulate real editing flows (trimming, transitions, filters) in Figma. So far, auto-animate and some interactive components are helping, but syncing complex interactions like filter overlays and multi-track timelines is tricky.I’m also referencing tools like the (capcut-style editor from capcapk). I’m curious how others approach designing for mobile video UX in Figma—do you simulate drag handles, timelines, or use external embeds for previews?Would love to see if there are plugins or workflows that help bring these ideas closer to real interaction modeling.

Hi everyone – I’m in a finance-focused role where I spend a lot of time building decks. Like, 90% of my job is making PowerPoint presentations. And honestly… I’m tired. PowerPoint just feels slow and clunky, especially when you’re making small visual adjustments over and over.I’m seriously considering switching to Figma to speed up my workflow and make things more enjoyable. But I’ve hit a few snags that I’m hoping you all can help with: Company Template: We have a corporate PowerPoint template that includes a branded background and logo placement. In PPT, I just start with the template file. How would I recreate that in Figma so that every new slide starts clean with our design? Excel Charts & Graphs: One major thing keeping me in PPT is the ability to copy/paste charts straight from Excel. It keeps all formatting and is easy to update. Has anyone figured out a good workflow for bringing charts into Figma—either as editable visuals or quick screenshots that look good? Tables i

I’ve been building out some interactive prototypes in Figma and working with a team that uses a sandboxed environment for launching and testing desktop app behavior. We're trying to ensure that the UI flow feels native even in isolated test environments where system hooks are limited.One tool that's come up in our workflow is the bloxstrap launcher, which helps manage these kinds of setups. While it’s not directly tied to Figma, it’s been helpful for replicating conditions that affect how our app will behave once deployed on Windows machines with tighter controls.Has anyone else used sandbox or custom launchers while testing Figma-to-production workflows? Curious if there’s a more integrated way to bridge Figma with those kinds of environments.Appreciate any insights!

I have a collection of 300+ variables and I need to connect the base values inside to another library, it seems that only the variable Id is exposed and not static, so I’m struggling to find how to do it. Ideal behaviourLoop through all variables in a collection Get the id of the value in that variable Match to a map with a replacement Swap the variable value with the new one

Hi, From the doc, i understood that submitting a paid plugin that makes use of Figma in-house paid system is only available to accepted publisher, and that Figma is currently not accepting any new publisher, is that correct ? so the only way to make a paid plugin would be to do the payment via a 3rd party ? And if so, is it required to provide any specific information during publication, or just submit it under the Community Free Resource License ? Thanks in advance.

Hi, Today I noticed that viewers were unable to copy from some files. However, when I toggle the checkbox, Figma doesn’t save the change. After a while, it reverts to untoggled. Some of my files belong to a published library and do not have an owner.

Hi!I keep pressing Ctrl + Q instead of Ctrl + A, and it ends up quitting the entire desktop app (on Windows). I looked into the keyboard shortcut customization interface but I could’t find this shortcut listed. Is it possible to remap or disable this Quit shortcut in the desktop app ?    Thanks!

Hi,I just wanted to ask if i will be able to use Figma sites with my educational plan or not. Figma sites actually looks fantastic :)

Hi,I am looking into some docs to create a plugin … I would like to make another “Copy as” feature to match our component development platform. I took the tutorials (orange rectangle party), added webpack bundling and started exploring the API.When using getMainComponentAsync from one of the nodes it goes wrong, the function returns nothing, I get no exceptions and execution just stops.It’s weird ‘cause I can do this from the console in figma but not from my plugin, any suggestions?Is a plugin the right way to achieve what I want ? Oh, I have dynamic-page set … otherwise the asyncs wont work ;-) TxY.

We have 4-5 Figma files with different colours styles (because the maximum groups of colour variables can be just 4 in a Figma file). We whitelabel our site, thats why we have plenty of groups of colour variables.So we have 4-5 Figma files with different groups of colour variables. For one of our customers we did a unique screen design for a unique service (we created another Figma file for them, because they have unique colour combos as well). Now we would like if this feature would be in our general template as well, but when I copy the screen design (frame), it brings the original colour variables, that won’t be a big problem if I would be able to change that to the ones where I pasted it. But I can’t!!! Attached screenshots:The original colour groups:  After the frame paste - the colour variables:There are the original (“Created in this file”) and there are the pasted one (“Reffle/Paramount_2”)  When I want to change the colour variable of the pasted frame the only options are:  Pl

Anybody know how to fix it? Now only avaible on web.

This question was posted a while back, and never answered.  I’m having the same issue.  I’ve created a component with 3 variants.  From within a variant, I want to navigate to another frame in my prototype.  But, this isn’t working.  Any tips?  Or, maybe this can’t be done?

I want to prototype the generation of text that animates after submitting an AI prompt. In other words– when you type a prompt into Chat GPT and hit submit, the words begin to appear one after another as the response is created. I would like to understand an easy way to to this.

Hi Figma Community! Basically, I have a bunch of one size icons as variants in a component - they all have an auto layout frame applied to them. I want to use the icons throughout my design, but in different sizes. However, I don’t want to create varying sizes within the main component, as there would be too many icons and it would look messy. So what I normally do is: Create another test component using the icon with another element (for example, with a CTA here) Scale the icon using the scale tool (larger as an example here) Then instance swap it and it usually adheres to the new scaled size that I give it. However, recently, this method hasn’t been working and the instance just retains the same size as its original parent varient. *As a note, the icon starts scaling properly if I detatch the instance. Which ideally I don’t want to be doing, as I may have changes to the test component that I need reflected throughout the file. Can anyone assist in finding why this is, that would be

Hello,I just want to ask about the steps to sell on Figma community, when I start publishing the checkbox “sell this resource on community” is disabled, any ideas?

I’ve got variable strings where I need to display a portion of the string as a link, or bold. Normally I would just be able to select the text and style accordingly, but doing so with a variable string breaks the link to the variable. I could break the string up into various parts, stylizing the individual parts as needed, but when you are dealing with a paragraph of text it would be impossible to keep the various parts reading like a paragraph (unbroken) as string lengths change, and then I am also dealing with translations/localization which moves parts around.

A GIF is worth 1000 words, so please see below.A number of elipses (plot points) are within a frame (or group). When the container resizes the elipses should:retain their relative position (the way they do within a group) retain their absolute sizing (the way they do within a frame)How do you get both, as in this example of a plot, where the red dots should retain their size but still sit on the right point of the graph when the graph resizes? I had hoped that setting each ellipse to “proportional” and then “top+bottom/left+right” within a frame would do the trick, but no.And using a group, well their size gets wacky - they either distort into ovals, or, with proportional turned on, they get huge/tiny when adjusting the graph along one of the axes, none of which is desirable.

Seems like every feature/product they are releasing now is about expanding platform reach and pumping up IPO, not about refining and improving their existing products.When you look at the bugs, feature requests and other needs that long time users have been waiting months and even years for, it gets really frustrating as an embedded Figma user to see them not fix and enhance the basic parts of the software that we so desperately need.Am I alone here? Maybe I’m just letting it get to my head, but so many basic things are not being taken care of. Just gets frustrating.

Hi, The latest build of the Figma (124.7.4) was updated in my system last week and since after that, the app has started behaving too slowly as if a lot of load is on my system which somehow felt like it would crash in some time. I thought, this might be my computer so I kept checking on my Activity Monitor to see if something was going on in the background but there was nothing. Even though I tried it as the only app running and nothing was running in the background, the behaviour remained consistent. I realised this when I switched to the web version of Figma, and things got quite smooth compared to the app’s laggy behavior. The system that I am using is a 2019 Intel i9 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM, and this should not cause any problems. I am sure this is something with the most recent build. I hope I am not the only person experiencing this problem.

Hello. Since last year, the AI ​​feature has not been activated for my account. I need it like many of my colleagues.😓Can you tell me how to activate it? Or how to get on the list?

Hey everyone I just signed up for the pro plan but for some reason, I can’t find the AI tool in the menu at the bottom of the screen. Any suggestion?

Is it possible to create a component in Figma that triggers a modal, and have that modal be the same and shared across multiple files?