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Susanne
Susanne
March 22, 2022
Question

Libraries enabled but components are not showing

  • March 22, 2022
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I am new to Figma (transitioning from sketch). I just had to buy the professional plan to experiment with libraries. And thats where I got stuck:

I have a library file ‘documentA’ published and enabled for my team in ‘document B’ (I am on the pro plan). But I cant see components! It just says “…explore libraries…” and when I click on it it shows me that my library is enabled.

I hope this makes sense — I’d love to upload screenshots here but I dont see any option to do that. Is there actually a way to get real customer support?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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    Susanne
    SusanneAuthor
    March 22, 2022

    Update: I also have ‘enable and set default team to libraries for all team files’ enabled!

    Elisa_Fernandez
    Elisa_Fernandez
    July 10, 2022

    I have the same problem, did you solve it??
    It’s driving me nuts…

      Manoel_Fernandes
      Manoel_Fernandes
      July 20, 2022

      Same here… any clues?

      Manoel_Fernandes
      Manoel_Fernandes
      July 20, 2022

      Turns out that my components were grouped and it worked after I ungrouped.

      Jakub_Foglar1
      Jakub_Foglar1
      September 7, 2022

      Same problem. I do have the components in a frame, so what? Can somobedy from support chip in?

      Ivy_Do
      Ivy_Do
      September 17, 2022

      Hi!
      I’m new to Figma, so sorry if my terminology is limited. The way I fixed it was by going to the Mobile Wireframe UI Kit on Figma, and clicking on ‘Libraries’ from the Main Menu drop-down > I saw that there were still about 395 components that weren’t published when I first did it from the drop-down by the file name > After publishing the rest of the components, I went back to my team project design, and the components just showed up.
      Hope that helps!

        Ivy_Do
        Ivy_Do
        September 17, 2022

        Update: I duplicated the process, and the problem happened again. I then repeated the process on the desktop Figma application instead of the web browser and it worked there instead.

        I believe it may be a bug on the website browser.

        Richmond
        Richmond
        October 12, 2022

        I had something similar happen to a library where I had a 3 separate components in a Frame for organizational purposes. Two of the three components appeared in my external file that used the library but one did not. My issue was that one of my Variants did not contain all of the Properties. Once I included all of the Properties to all of the Variants and published the library, all of the components appeared.

          Gerardo_Cid1
          Gerardo_Cid1
          October 18, 2022

          The solution is very simple. Check that your unpublished components doesn’t have errors (mine had an unused text) I fixed it and voila. Working as expected.

            David_Villarroel_Escorza
            David_Villarroel_Escorza
            February 15, 2023

            ¡Damn it! It happen to me now. Yesterday I had whole stuff from a published library (DS) and now the “colors” disappeared. I have to “copy/paste properties” but with new elements can not resources to copy. Figma bug? Any clue? 🫠

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