Instance Swap Porperty Not Used Within Component

Same exact issue.

@tank666 At least for me, it works with boolean as your example shows, but not instant swap or text.

I don’t see any problems with applying the instance swap and text properties. Everything is exactly the same as applying a boolean property, but instead select the appropriate options for the desired properties.

Thanks for your fast reply again.
I don’t get that text line w the create property button.

So I’m simply trying to make variations of a button, with different icons etc.
Now, it lets me instance swap my text for an icon, but that’s not really useful.

If i click the icon however, the ‘apply instance swap property’ is gone.

It looks like you are selecting the wrong layers for these properties.

The text property can only be applied to a text layer. Make sure the text layer is not nested within an instance of another component.

The instance swap property can only be applied to an instance layer. Make sure that an instance of one component is not nested within an instance of another component.

If you still want to add a property to an instance’s nested object, you need to go to its main component and add and apply the desired property there.

It also seems that Figma didn’t like it when all the variants didn’t contain an instance to swap. I was trying to provide a single Component that would allow for user initials or a photo. When I had the user initials variants in the same component as the photos, it wouldn’t expose the “Custom Photo” property 😦

It took me a while to figure this out😅

I suggested selecting the instance first to create the swap property, rather than selecting the frame to create a new property (which would still require applying the instance property later, adding an extra step).

The steps are:

1. Select the instance (must be linked to a component, not an individual item).
2.  Create an instance swap property. (I marked it with blue circle)

   

    

3.  Edit the name/value.

Please watch this video for more details: Youtube link

Hope it helps!