Missing Variants option in right sidebar

There is an “add variant” button on the top of the page

You can right click on your component and select Main Selection/Variant. This works although not for components that have been dragged in. Weird. Only when you first create it.

Ah ok. It’s been changed or was that always there and i never noticed it?

Just been changed. Among several other updates after the Figma Config! Took me a while to notice it! Haha

Hey! I did create the variant with the icon in the top bar, but it doesn’t allow me to add variant properties from the sidebar. Something similar happened to someone else?

No I don’t think you can from the sidebar.

If you’re selecting a component that doesn’t have a variant yet, you can add a variant by clicking the icon in the top bar.

If you already have a component with variants, there is a button on the bottom of the group, and you can also add another variant in the dropdown in the side.

The last two images are only possible when something has a variant already.

Would be nice if it is returned to the side bar!

From Figma support…

We introduced Create and use component properties yesterday at Config. Component propertied define which parts of the component people can change by tying them to specific design properties. This allows you to control things like whether layers are visible, if you can swap an icon or change the text, or if are effects applied.

If you don’t want to create component properties that bind to text/boolean/instance or still want to use variant properties, you can initially create a variant property and then add variants (states) to the canvas via the following icon at the top.

How do you add additional values to a property? it’s not allowing me to.

Oh, well it’s good that they didn’t remove the action completely but I certainly did NOT think to look there for something that becomes part of the Properties panel section and was there previously. I did find the right-click submenu item on my own.

Figma, could we have both buttons (top and side panel) and the menu command? Building a new design system, I’m working with variants a lot.