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seni
Figmate
seniManager, Community Support
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Phuong
PhuongNew Member
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HELPPPPP! Unassigned file I can't edit or duplicate even though I'm owner

Hi everyone,I'm having a serious issue with one of my Figma files. Hope someone here can help me!Here's my situation:I created the file myself, using my personal email (confirmed I am the owner). When I open the file, at the top of the file it says "Unassigned file" (in a yellow bar). I cannot edit, duplicate, or move the file to drafts or a team. The file has copy and duplication permissions turned off, and I cannot seem to turn them back on. Other users can only view the file (as set), but I can't even manage my own file properly. I double-checked that I'm logged into the correct account (owner's email).Here are some screenshots of the issue I already tried:Checking ownership and permissions. Looking for "Move to Drafts" or "Move to Team" options — but they're missing. Logging out and back in.⚠️ Important: This is a very important project file, and I need to continue working on it.If anyone has experienced this before or knows a fix, please let me know!Also, any way to contact Figma

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Radhika1
Radhika1New Participant
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Unable to publish Figma File Library

After clicking this Publish button, it leads to the next image attached, which does not have Publish button.What does this mean for publishing Library?This file is part of education Team and is also part of a project folder.

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Radhika1
Tesia_Neujahr1
Tesia_Neujahr1
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Why aren't my assets organized alphabetically anymore?

My asset panel for components used to be organized alphabetically regardless of how my library file was structured. I like to organize my library by components that are in progress, ready for dev, etc… and now in every file when i view my assets panel, the components are following the page order rather than alpha like they used to be.

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y_toku
Figmate
Radhika1
Radhika1New Participant
asked in Ask the Community
Learning and collaborating on Local Variables in Figma Without Reinventing the Wheel

Local variables are only accessible on an individual’s local system, right? Is there any way to view someone else’s local variables — for instance, if they’ve already set up a great system — so others can build on it instead of starting from scratch?Another way:Is there any way to view and study the local variables used in Figma files available in the community? Specifically, I’m curious if it's possible to examine how others have organized their variables within their files, so I can learn from well-structured systems and avoid reinventing the wheel when working on similar projects.

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Radhika1
Jeff_Pow
Jeff_PowNew Member
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About Figma Seats

Hi everyone,I need help from all of you as I don’t quite understand still on how the seat are works. Below are the reply from the support recently:‘It's fine for you to move the file from team with email 1 to team with email 2 once it's been created, but again, please note that everyone with email 2 logging information will be able to manage everything in that account.  Again, I recommend that every user uses their own Figma account to collaborate on the files on your chosen team whether linked to email 1 or email 2. This is better for collaborating and also for security reasons.’ My reply after:‘You meant:1. Everything in email 2.2. I create a team in email 2. All designs under this team.3. I invite each of them with different Figma accounts (separate email addresses)4. Everyone of them will view designs and accessing to Dev Mode under that team. Ultimately, they would not able to manage anything besides viewing designs and Dev Mode only.All yes?’ So, my question, are all true as per

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Deanna_Liceaga
Deanna_Liceaga
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Boolean operations moved to Properties is disrupting workflow

In the new update boolean operations moved from center top toolbar to a tiny, difficult to see spot in the corner of the properties panel. In the type of design I do I use these controls constantly and it’s been frustrating and disruptive. Constraints have also been moved and is less accessible. It would be great to allow the user to keep a custom top toolbar that is easily accessible, or at least maintain the original toolbar without having to revert to previous versions.

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Glen Hinkle
beeveloper
beeveloperNew Member
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How to reuse a Frame properperties as a component/variable or other

Hey everyone! 😊I’m currently working on a Glassmorphism-styled app and have designed a Glass Tile component. I’ve fine-tuned the look to match my vision, but I want the flexibility to tweak it later and have those changes apply across my entire design.Since I also want to take full advantage of Auto-Layout, I’ve been trying different ways to make my Glass Tile fully reusable. Right now, my approach is:Creating an empty frame, and once I’m ready, manually placing my Glass Tile underneath and resizing it. Or, copying the properties of my Glass Tile and pasting them onto new frames.However, this feels a bit clunky. Ideally, I’d love a way to have a "Glass Frame" component that I can reuse over and over—without extra manual resizing every time.I also tried nesting an instance of my Glass Tile inside a frame, but it doesn’t resize dynamically. 🤔Does anyone know a smarter way to achieve this? Would love to hear your thoughts!Thanks a ton! 😃 

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Raphael_M
Angela Liu
Angela LiuNew Member
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Resizing child element in a component

I created this form field. I want the field length to be adjustable, while keeping the button the same size and at the end. However, when I resize the field, one of two things will happen: Button stays the same size, but doesn’t move to be at the end of the field. Button moves, but changes size. How should the component be set so that the button has a fixed size but dynamic position?

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Raphael_M
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BTVNew Member
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I don't need an Organization plan for an entire year, yet I'll be billed annually.

I need to switch from a Professional Plan to Organization Plan in order to use the branching feature for a client that likes to snoop. I only need the Organization Plan for about six months, which is the duration of the contract. Typically my projects don’t require branching. I see that the Professional Plan is billed monthly and the Organization Plan is billed annually. So, I’m out $960 even though I only need it for half the year. And please, for the love of all that is good and holy, If you are going to have a plan bill annually, don’t show the pricing breakdown by month: https://www.figma.com/pricing/Anyho, long story short (and this is probably a no), can we buy features month to month?  

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Mani_Noroozi
Mani_NorooziNew Member
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Dynamic height for auto layout wrap

In Figma, I’m working with a design that involves three cards within an auto layout configuration. My goal is to achieve two key behaviors: Equal Height Across Cards: When these cards are aligned next to each other horizontally, they should all maintain an equal height, ensuring a uniform appearance. Content-Dependent Sizing: In scenarios where the cards do not share a row (e.g., when viewed on a narrower screen or in a different layout context), each card should adjust its height dynamically to snugly fit its content. Is it possible to configure auto layout wrap to accommodate these requirements? Specifically, I’m looking for a way to make the containers simultaneously fill available height when aligned together and adjust to hug their content when they’re not sharing the same row.

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Shawn11
Anthony_Shui
Anthony_Shui
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My rotation cursor isn't showing up on hover - why?

I’m hovering outside the layer to try and activate the rotation cursor, but it’s not showing. How come?

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DBoland
easyHotel_Online_Platform
easyHotel_Online_Platform
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Slide deck presentation stuck on mobile view

Hi everyone, I am having difficultt presenting using Figma’s slide deck. When I enter presentation mode it is showing in mobile (iPhone X) and I cannot see where to change the view. I am aware of changing the device view under prototype in design files however, this isn’t available when working in slide deck. Anyone have any idea where you change the view in slide deck? Thanks!

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Heather_Tompkins
Pablo_Garcia_Roca
Pablo_Garcia_RocaNew Participant
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I don't understand the new seats

We are on a Professional plan with the following set-up:2 Design seats paid yearly (renewing on Feb 3 2026) 2 Design seats paid monthly 5 FigJam seats paid yearly (renewing on Feb 3 2026)First, we want to remain on the professional plan as it suits us best, we don’t want to upgrade to an organization plan.This said, this is what an ideal set-up after the new seats have been introduced would look like:2 Full seats paid yearly 2 Dev seats paid yearly 5 Collab seats paid yearlyI’ve been trying to figure out how to make this happen and it’s impossible. There’s no Dev Seat anywhere in our “People” view but only the, now, obsolete, Full and FigJam seats.Furthermore, before we could select to upgrade monthly seats to annual, an option that has been now wiped out the UI, leaving us stuck with 2 design seats paid monthly that we’d like to shift to yearly (if we were able to make them Dev Seats instead).The only place in the UI where I found a list of members and a list of the new seats tied to

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Pablo_Garcia_Roca
rohith_adaka
rohith_adaka
asked in Ask the Community
About website design to code

i have a website design on wix.how to convert that website design to code

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Franklingeorge
digitalQ
digitalQNew Member
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Complete Newbie - Missing Basic Concept

Hello - I almost can’t believe I’m posting this. I have read through all the help files, watched four training videos on Pluralsight plus countless YT videos. I’m absolutely not grasping something very basic!I’m a long time full stack software developer (obviously the problem here), I apparently think very differently than you design folk! ;)All I am trying to do is create a simple wireframe. I completely understand how to create from scratch all the way to a prototype, no issue there.I’m “trying” to use a free wireframe “file” from the community. I “liked”, “bookmarked” brought into Figma etc. but no matter what I do, I can’t get it, or any of it’s assets/components to show up in my project file under assets so I can use them in my fresh design file. I have been screwing with this for three days and I’m am completely ready to jump out my window! I have never ran into a technical problem I couldn’t figure out! This one has me.What extremely obvious and basic concept am I totally missin

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Sissy_Arenas
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Button states stop working when prototyping and navigating to different frame

i’m prototyping on Figma, i have buttons that change states once clicked on. The button changes states and works fine when I press it while I’m presenting, however once I make it so that clicking the button makes you navigate to a different frame/page, the button doesn’t change states anymore. How can i fix this? I already tried adding a delay when it navigates to a different page, but it seems like the button stops working all together in terms of changing states. Not sure if this is a bug.

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forleey
forleeyNew Member
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Ghost color styles

How do I remove ghost color styles?I added some color styles, but after deleting them, they still appear in Libraries while not showing up in the color styles list or selection colors.Oddly enough, I can add fills on top of them 😆Important note: There are no external libraries linked to this file.Thanks for helping!   

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Nellya
Kenny_Grant
Kenny_Grant
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Figma colours don't match web/export

The designs within Figma are bright and pop, but after converting to HTML and using the same hex codes they look faded and washed out. Is there a workaround? Is this related to color profiles? Left shows Figma, right shows HTML. Note the background colours and fonts don’t look as bright Help!! Just looking for the web to pop like the figma designs =)

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Rafael_Boiko
bentyler33
bentyler33New Member
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Figma variables appear in the themes button

I am in the process of creating a design system. I have created the local variables having a section for primitives, than another section for tokens. All is working great, but when I pull other components from our legacy design system, it keeps adding these and random names to the variables when I click the apply variable mode icon.The image shows the legacy design system as DI Design system, and also Experiment which is a Figma file I am playing with.Its quite irritating as I am trying to keep this file really simple.I can remove these additional items by deleting the components and I am left with item ‘Created in this file’ with the sub item titled ‘Tokens’Can anyone recommend a solution here or alternative way of doing this.The reason I am doing this I want to organise our colours semantically as tokens, the legacy design system is a mess that I inherited. Thanks in advance.  

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bentyler33
Milhan
Milhan
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CTRL+SHIFT+K not working

I am having a problem. In the new UI, or it’s just a new bug. The short cut key to import images CTRL+SHIFT+K not is not working on my Desktop Figma version.

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silvermagnolia
Denise A.
Denise A.New Member
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Prototype links to main component content, not edited variant instance

Hello, I’m facing some difficulty with my prototype as the text edits I made to a specific variant are not showing up in the prototype. Instead, the text reflects that of the main component. This variant of a component is nested in another component’s variant, and when the prototype starts the normal flow of going from the default state of this parent component to the state where the child component is viewable, the child component’s content reflects the main component instead of the version I edited.  Only if I start from the second or third variant state does the child component reflect my edits.I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well but I’d be more than happy to answer any questions and am thankful for any help!  Link to Figma File what the preview/prototype currently displays (aka main component)what should be displayed (aka edited instance) 

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Victor_Lupan1
Victor_Lupan1
asked in Ask the Community
Sharing library across organizations

Can you share a library from one organization to another without transferring it and making it public?

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Marie_Kubatova
Sems
Sems
asked in Ask the Community
New Font Available Notification keeps popping up - how do I get rid of to

Everytime I leave Figma window to go to another window, I get this “New available font: Raleway” notifications. Why is this happening? How do i turn it off?

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Andreav
Suresh Babu
Suresh BabuNew Member
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Working multiple feature in a one single figma file

Is it advisable to manage multiple features within a single Figma file, for example, it will have hundred of pages and thousand of artboards. Will Figma experience performance issues if multiple designers work on the same file simultaneously? How does this approach affect version control when multiple designers are working on the same file?

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