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Styles disconnected from component library

  • April 9, 2024
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Borchert_Liz

I recently needed to create a very similar library to our existing design system, but did not need to connect them in any way from a team or enterprise perspective - but they did share common themes such as type styles, color palettes and grid.

With that, I found the ā€œtrickā€ where you could cut/paste all of the styles from one file to another - and at first, thought I found a real time saving hack for myself - but has since turned into a 2 week nightmare within our files.

It turns out that by ā€˜cutting’ any of the styles from you existing library, disconnects them from your components, and the only way to go back and reconnect the assets is by manually doing so.

About a week ago, I spent an entire day manually reconnecting the styles within a branch before reconnecting over 100+ of our components. For a few days things seemed to be working fine - but one of my designers messaged me late yesterday that the styles have seemed to have disconnect themselves again.

In the interim as well, several times when I needed to publish an update to our library, the publisher dialogue would prompt me to re-connect all of the styles yet again - even after manually reconnecting them to each library several times.

In lieu of manually going back and re-connecting these styles yet again - so we can move on with continuing our regular work - does anyone have any tips or solutions as to why this may be happening and how it can be solved? This has been a huge waste of time for my entire team and a truly unfortunate experience.

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y_toku
Figmate
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  • April 11, 2024

Hi there,

Thanks for the post. I’m not certain, but have you tried using the ā€œRepair component connectionsā€ function? You can do from quick actions:

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Could you try to see if it works?

Thanks,
Toku