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Onkel_Tem
Onkel_Tem
asked in Ask the Community
Using variables, but not functions - why?

Hi, I’m a front-end developer (mainly - js/ts) and I was tasked to learn how a design realm can be connected with the development realm. How a design system can be build. The problem I stumbled upon almost immediately was the inability to parameterize designs. Let me explain. Figma has variables, that’s cool. Now how to instantiate them? I didn’t find a way except for manually typing them in. Let’s talk about colors. Imagine you’re given a brand style with 3 base colors plus one reddish for errors. Each has 10 shades so we get 40 variables that we have to enter manually. But they don’t include the state colors, like hovers. So we go and add another set of variables for state layers. How many their number can reach? Material Theme Builder for example generates more than 1000 styles. No one can enter all of them manually. No one gonna really use all of them. It’s pain to pick a style from a list of thousand other styles. It makes UI slow. You need to regenerate the entire bunch when you

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Onkel_Tem
2 months ago
Jemmanew
Jemmanew
asked in Ask the Community
How to develop using only dev mode

Hello, our team has opened a professional version plan. I have shared the design link with the viewer permissions for the development, and I have set the development to full seats in the member management. However, in this case, the development cannot be downloaded. Image, download button is locked, how to solve this situation? If I enable editor permissions for developers, they can download cutouts, but I don’t want to enable editor permissions.

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Gleb
2 months ago
Shagari_Guity
Shagari_Guity
asked in Ask the Community
Remote Usability

Hi, I’m preparing for my first remote usability testing session with a web-based prototype, and I have a concern. I want to make sure the hotspots are hidden when I present the prototype to participants. If they remain visible, it could lead to misleading insights. Is there a way to disable or remove this feature? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! -Shagari

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Nellya
2 months ago
Vincent2
Vincent2
asked in Ask the Community
Pixelated image when exporting

Hello I have to export a lot of assets for a client, can be several thousands. I noticed that when exporting, some assets still have that pixelated rendering that looks like progressive JPG. I’m quite sure this is because when exporting, Figma hasn’t finished loading all the HighRed images. So I tried scrolling through all my images at more than 100% zoom and waited for Figma to load the complete image when it wasn’t. Did that through all my assets, launched export, and it still had that pixelation on some of them. I think by the time I had scrolled through all my images, Figma just decided to go back to low res for some of them, which is not very nice… Do you guys have any idea how I could resolve this? Thanks

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Thales_Silva
2 months ago
Cecilia_Marnero
Cecilia_Marnero
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In the prototype I can't reach the bottom or the top of the page

I have a prototype of a website with a few frames of 900x1090. I zoom in to see the page at full width in a small monitor but now I can’t reach the bottom of the page, I scroll but stops before the end. If I zoom out I see the entire page again, then zoom in the bottom but then I can’t reach the top, this happens with every page in the same prototype. I’m using Figma on browser Brave on Macbook.

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Cecilia_Marnero
2 months ago
Quinn_Patrick1
Quinn_Patrick1
asked in Ask the Community
Figma Slides Auto-Layout

Seems like auto-layout in Slides is missing the ability to set a child element height / width to “fill” - am I missing something?

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Carlos_Ruiz
2 months ago
waqarnaik
waqarnaikNew Member
asked in Ask the Community
🔴 How to Copy page from one Figma file to another?

There is a user flow of the app screen page present in the Figma file and in that same file there is Design System page which have foundation and important component this was done by earlier designer who was working on this file now I want to transfer the user flow page to the new Figma file how can I do this please anybody help 😪

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waqarnaik
2 months ago
Grace_Ren
Grace_Ren
asked in Ask the Community
Figjam Calendar time bug

Hi, I found this bug on FigJam Calendar called ‘Online Calendar Planner’, it shows time 1 day earlier then actual date. This happens after using for a week or two.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
2 months ago
Dilyse_Thomas1
Dilyse_Thomas1
asked in Ask the Community
Why does scroll trigger animation is not working when added in a nested frame

scroll bar related animation works well in its individual frame, but it doesn’t work well when that frame is added in a nested frame…is there something im missing or doing something wrong.

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Dilyse_Thomas1
2 months ago
MKitPlug
MKitPlug
asked in Ask the Community
Urgent! Fix errors before publishing

Hi, @community_support Urgent! I changed my e-mail in my Figma account about 14 days ago, which worked without any problems. Now there was an urgent update of my plugin and the release of a new plugin. When I tried to publish it, I got the message Fix errors before publishing We detected a change to your account details. Please contact support@figma.com to publish this plugin Which I did a few days ago. After various queries about my person and what I have done in Figma, unfortunately there is no reply. Since 2 days there is no answer at all,… What do I have to do to put a new version of the plugin on Figma again?

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
2 months ago
MiloW
MiloW
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Is there a way to use a design (a particular frame) but as a sort of a synced ghost of it, for a prototype?

What I mean is, I create frames, blah blah and then, instead of linking them here and now, is there a way to somehow create a synced copy/mirror of those frames in some other place so if you create connections, it uses objects from the design but on this copy - mirror? And it would update live, of course if you remove an object, the connection goes away. One idea is to create a component out of the whole frame and just instance it… but I feel this is not the right way. Has anyone ever thought about his too?

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MiloW
2 months ago
nichiporchik.n
nichiporchik.n
asked in Ask the Community
do not hide rulers when sidebars are hidden

мне удобно выравнивать элементы по линейке, иногда мне нужно смотреть на дизайн 1 к 1, без боковых панелей, тогда я нажимаю ctrl + . Однако Очень часто мне нужно видеть линейки, когда боковые панели скрыты. Но линейки скрываются вместе с панелями

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nichiporchik.n
2 months ago
Dilyse_Thomas1
Dilyse_Thomas1
asked in Ask the Community
In prototype mode scroll bar animation is not responding

Hi everyone, I’m working on a scroll triggered animation for a landing page, where the frame (containing video) in the hero section increases in size and takes up entire space when the scroll bar is dragged. While i was practicing this animation it worked, but when i added this ‘hero section’ frame in my main ‘landing page’ frame and then checked in prototyping mode, the scroll bar does not respond. Can anyone help with this ? Thanks! Dilyse.

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Dilyse_Thomas1
2 months ago
Gabriel_Cecchi
Gabriel_Cecchi
asked in Ask the Community
[Prototytping] Responsive mode doesn't stay centered

Hi everyone ! I hope everybody’s well. Here’s my subject : i’m working on a “bento design” and i have an issue with my prototype : when i play it for the first time, the navigation keep resizing the screen in the top left corner before getting back to normal (which make the experience nauseous and feeling bugged). BUT once he did this little glitch everything works fine. to give you a bit more info, i’m using a component and 2 interactions in this order : Change to > changing the dot Navigate to > to change the content of screen And the 1st frame inside the main ones : are always named the same are in fill with a min and max width i used exactly the same method for the menu and it’s working just fine I tried to change the order but it doesn’t help and it just delete my dot animation… Anyone already had this problem ? Anyway to fix it ? Thank you all ! Have a nice day

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Gabriel_Cecchi
2 months ago
Marina_Saranyuk
Marina_Saranyuk
asked in Ask the Community
Cant open desktop figma

Good afternoon. I can’t access the desktop version. It sends me to the site, but there are no my settings there. I reinstalled - doesn’t help, logged out of my account and logged back in - doesn’t help ((Can you tell me what my problem is?

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Marina_Saranyuk
2 months ago
B
backup
asked in Ask the Community
How to backup/export/download all Figma files?

As part of our organisation roadmap, we need our organisation data to be backed up in our inhouse server at a regular interval. We are working to take the backup of Figma files along with respective projects. We have explored the Figma API documentation (https://www.figma.com/developers/api#get-files-endpoint), where we need to manually add the file key in the api (GET/v1/files/:key), which is not ideal solution and even after adding the key, we are getting response in json format, not the file. Could you please suggest a way how we can take incremental backup of Figma files along with respective projects? Is there any option available to Export/Download all of our Figma files?

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Wir_sind_Plural
2 months ago
Moira_Dela_Cruz
Moira_Dela_Cruz
asked in Ask the Community
Outline Stroke Changed?

I noticed when i use the outline stroke option to a text it’s not the same as before where the text is editable and the outlined stroke of the text is also editable but in another layer.

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Moira_Dela_Cruz
2 months ago
Shruti_Shamdasani
Shruti_Shamdasani
asked in Ask the Community
Code snippet editor

I downloaded code snippet editor and wrote the code snippet for component set. It did propagate correctly to the component instances in the same project, however when I open a component instance in another project, it says no snippet available. My design system project is published and shared with other projects.

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Shruti_Shamdasani
2 months ago
Jim_Knox
Jim_KnoxNew Member
asked in Ask the Community
Variables User Update?

Is there going to be a company update on variables any time soon, we are desperately lacking some ux features and improvements? (its still feels like its beta) I keep checking release notes daily for any sign of quality of life improvement in this area (does anyone else feel like this whole area is being ignored?). I see new products coming online like code connect & slides etc, meanwhile I think there are a lot of medium sized orgs with designers in the trenches that probably wont take advantage of these things but could definitely take advantage of some variables QOL improvements. Rant over

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Jim_Knox
2 months ago
Bi_Xu
Bi_Xu
asked in Ask the Community
How to let plugin only accessed by granted user?

Is there a way to control plugin access permissions for users in my enterprise workspace? Since my plugin is still in the beta stage, I don’t want all enterprise users to be able to use it before the official rollout.

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Bi_Xu
2 months ago
Marisol_Mendez
Marisol_Mendez
asked in Ask the Community
Figma too slow, nothing works

Hi, since a couple of weeks Figma is not working properly, it’s too slow, every click is painfully slow, and it happens all over my team worldwide, on Mac iOS or in windows, VPN or no VPN, we deleted cache and Desktop profiles as indicated here in the forums and still too slow, please advise.

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J
Figmate
2 months ago
Coco9
Coco9
asked in Ask the Community
Can't input exact width and height with new dropdown controls

Since the update, can no longer define the height and dimensions of shapes, as the text field is now a dropdown. It’s not always possible to resize manually.Is there a work around for this?

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Coco9
2 months ago
Leigh5
Leigh5
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Toolbar position

I am new to Figma. When I first started, the toolbar was at the top of the screen, but now it’s at the bottom. Why did this happen, and how can I change it back?

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Coco9
2 months ago
sang.pok.e
sang.pok.e
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Element set to 180 degrees when grouped or Auto Layout applying

When I select an element and create a group or apply the Auto Layout, the rotation property is set to 180 degrees. This occurs whether I select a single element or multiple elements. Has anyone else experienced something similar? I searched the forum but couldn’t find any posts about this issue. this is normal this is group this is auto layout

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sang.pok.e
2 months ago
James_Sanders
James_Sanders
asked in Ask the Community
iPhone 15 Plus frame size?

What size would I make at Frame for the iPhone 15 Plus? I’m not seeing in the preset list.

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James_Sanders
2 months ago
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