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Is it possible to select all component instances based on a specific component property?

  • January 14, 2025
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EduardB

Hello community,

I was wondering if it is possible (either natively or through a plugin some of you may have come across) to select all component instances on a page based on a specific component property?

For example, suppose I have a button component with different "size" variants. One size property is called "desktop" and the other is called "mobile". I want to select only the instances with the "desktop" property.

How would I go about doing this? I couldn't find any specific plugin on my own that could help me do this, so I thought I would ask here since someone else may have come across this specific need and solved it.

4 replies

johntk22
  • johntk22
  • New Participant
  • 11 replies
  • January 14, 2025

you have to use the Select Similar plugin

Dennis_N
  • Dennis_N
  • Power Member
  • 194 replies
  • January 14, 2025

I’m curious what’s your goal once you have these components selected.

EduardB
  • EduardB
  • Author
  • New Member
  • 1 reply
  • January 14, 2025

I’m curious what’s your goal once you have these components selected.

I'm working from an existing comprehensive design system and want to see which specific variants of a component I've used and how often. This is my main use case at the moment, although I can think of others.

Maya4
  • Maya4
  • New Participant
  • 7 replies
  • May 23, 2025

I have the same need. I would like to select a certain component with a specific color variant so I can swap it out for a component a different library.

Currently, the “Select Matching Layers” does not discriminate between the various properties of a component/its instance. See below: I am only wanting to select the instances with a yellow arrow, but it selects all arrows. 


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