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i want to use figma api to analyse generated figma templates on my application but i couldn't find necessary information like how to use the api in my project and how to call it and what is the rate limit of api while using starter pack

I can’t figure out how to change the layout of an existing slide in Figma Slides. When creating a new slide, I can choose a layout from the theme, but once the slide is added, I can’t find a way to switch it to a different layout.Am I missing something? Often, I realize later that a different layout would work better and want to apply one of the theme’s template layouts to an existing slide—but I don’t see an option to do that. The only option I can find is “Template Style,” which seems to change only text styles and colors, not the layout itself.Is there a way to reapply or change slide layouts after a slide has been created?

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Hello fellow Figma friends,For the life of me, I can’t understand why I can’t see the MCP setting under Preferences. I can’t see it in Dev Mode or Design mode. Thanks in advance :)  

I have made a simple spinning micro animation component and use instances of it on several frames. the animation works fine on each frame but when transitioning between frames it freezes. I have used smart animate to move between 2 frames with a duration of 3000ms to simulate a progress bar:spinner freezes during smart animate for progress barIs there a way to keep the micro animations animated during the transition? Spinny freezy

Hi Figma team and community,I submitted a billing support ticket (#1583127) about 14 hours ago regarding an accidental annual renewal charge, but haven’t received any response yet.  This is quite urgent since it involves a $504 payment that I did not intend to make.Here’s the summary:- Issue type: Billing / refund request (annual plan renewal)- Ticket number: #1583127- Time submitted: 14 hours agoFor context — I accidentally got charged for the annual plan renewal ($500) because I misunderstood the renewal date.  I no longer run my business and had no intention of renewing the plan.  As soon as I noticed the charge, I immediately submitted a refund request through the chatbot and followed up by email.I’ll be on a flight in about 12 hours and won’t be able to respond or take any action for the following 15 hours after that.  **Please treat this as extremely urgent and process the refund as soon as possible.**  I strongly urge the team to prioritize this case before my flight if possible

Hi, I noticed that the AI button is gone when I open Figma today, and I can’t find the “Add relevant content” feature when hovering over a Frame. Has this feature been removed or relocated?

Hi.  I wonder how to make page that has gradual view of everything. That you scroll and see more.Or to make some kind of menu, that is moving and you don’t see enerything at once. That is not static page or menu. Hope I describe it enough. 

I’ve been experimenting with UI ideas for gaming tools and a friend showed me a custom Roblox launcher they told me to check it out. It made me realize how tricky it is to keep the design clean while still giving users the customization they expect. Has anyone here tried building similar flows in Figma? Any tips on keeping things simple but functional?

When flicking through the deck, I like to be able to maintain a consistent review point between slides. I normally design with a bit of space around each page, so when I’ve zoomed out a bit on one slide, what happens when I flick to the next page is that Figma automatically zooms to fit the page. This makes reviews quite difficult when you’re used to being able to fix the zoom setting in other programs. Fingers crossed this is something that can be amended, any help would be much appreciated! 

i need to fix some particular screens, but i cant find a way to select just one screen 

Any format of images are not visible in preview mode/prototype, but visible while export as PDF/.JPG/.PNG. Have debugged basic problem like frames, blend, fill etc… Anyone have any idea about this? I stucked with this problem☹️

 I’m creating a screen in which the content under the upper section scrolls vertically until the end of the content. The vertical scrolling works, but the problem is that there’s a small pocket of space above the content that makes it scroll more than needed. This negative space isn’t in the content, nor in the frame, and I really don’t know where it comes from.  

I work for a company that manages the design system for all public administration projects. The goal is to provide all consulting companies with a constantly updated design system library.However, I have discovered that outside the organisation, it is not possible to connect the library to the work files.I cannot allow the files to be copied because they would lose the updates and we would lose ownership of the files. How can we proceed? Any advice?I was thinking about projects connected between organisations, but there is a maximum of 15 per enterprise.

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?

I opened a support ticket numbered #1572460 on Figma 7 days ago, but we haven’t received a response from anyone at Figma yet. Is there any way to get a reply from the support team?

In our organization, we have a Design System created in Figma and is used to develop applications in Web technologies and also in Microsoft WPF.The WPF team created a tool that access the API to get variables and create a ResourceDictionarys from them.Now the DS needed to got through a major restructuring of the variables, thus their names have changed but IDs stayed the same (no variables were deleted, and almost no new variables added) - a process that took about 6 months to complete.We tried to get the old variables via https://api.figma.com/v1/files/:file_key/variables/local?version=222…. (222. is the old version) in order to compare it with the current version in order to know which variables changed their names and what are the new names.What we see is that we get the same, current, variables in both calls.A year ago, or so, providing parameter of version would return the variables at that version.Was this feature deprecated?Is there an alternative way to get variables of a speci

I want to create a design system (a set of reusable UI elements like buttons, colors, icons, etc.) in Figma. How can I organize it and publish it so that when I make changes to a component, it automatically updates in all the Figma files that use it?

My team submitted a help ticket through their online portal, but haven’t heard back in over a week. It’s now an urgent issue that we need resolved asap, so hoping I can find a phone number or any other helpful contact information that helps to get a more immediate answer. Thanks! 

Whenever I try to reference Figma, I always seem to get this error: Sorry, your request failed. Please try again. Reason: Request Failed: 400 {"error":{"message":"missing required Copilot-Vision-Request header for vision requests","code":""}} I’ve tried switching versions, Im using co-pilot and VS Code any ideas? 

How do I add hair to a cat drawing? Is there a plugin for that?

After downloading my file everything takes awhile to download and its blurry. It is a PDF to send to potential employers so blurry and delayed photos cannot happen. Please help 

I’ve been using the embed feature to add my prototype to a website. It was working at first on both Wix and Squarespace (but I honestly don’t think it’s the website that is the issue), showing the prototype and frames for a specific page (desktop, mobile, and tablet). Everything interactable and working fine.But for some reason, when I go to copy the embed code (because I was changing background color and whatnot), the code is different and instead embeds the entire design file.I have been manually going in to the page, selecting the starting frame, presenting, and sharing/copying it from there, which has worked for me until recently. Now, it displays the first page of my design file, giving the option to change between pages - which I don’t want to show.I’ve tried embedding from different pages, but the code is still the sameInitial embed code (for desktop home page): <iframe style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);" width="450" height="400" src="https://embed.figma.com/proto/p

So, variables are one of the most important functionalities in Figma, but the plugin API doesn’t help developers when it comes to variables, basically, there is no way for an open plugin to know when a user create, remove, reorder, or edit a variable or variable collection. Even though, this is possible with styles, which are less important and common than variables.If the document change event doesn’t include variable changes, then how an open plugin is supposed to get this information?Why variable changes haven’t been added to the document change event until now?@James_Yang I mentioned you as I always find you answers insightful​