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asked in Ask the Community

Updating libraries with a new file without detaching all components

Hello community, I need some real expert advice. We have the following situation: A global design team creates the libraries for all European design teams. Our German files are linked to the global libraries. Every month we receive an update of the library with new elements (e.g. icons) Each library update has an updated name (the date is the first part of the library name, e.g. “240612-Library-global”) Here are my questions and possible solutions: Question 1: Can I “update” a library, i.e. replace it with a new file, keeping only the differences? Question 2: Or do I have to disconnect the old library in my files and connect the new library? And then - it sounds too cruel to be true - manually reassign all components to this new library? Is there a better way to do this? Any experience sharing is welcome! Thank you very much for your help - I really appreciate it! Best regards, Janinase search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

4 months ago

Ruben8New Member

asked in Ask the Community

Interactive mega menu component

I would like to prototype a mega menu in Figma and have all the links in this prototype work as well. Ideally, I want to do this using a component so that I only have to set up the links once. Is this possible? The mega menu consists of 4 different drop-down submenus, each containing various links. I couldn’t quickly find an example of a mega menu that was both animated and had working links.

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4 months ago

Danel_Roldan1

asked in Ask the Community

Figma is investing so much in AI yet leave quality of live feature by the wayside

Overriding component properties on childe components is something only Figma does not DX, Sketch, PenPot just Figma. But, this feature does not work if you swop a child components properties the overdoes will not be reflected on the prototype preview.

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4 months ago

Nathaniel_Alkire

asked in Ask the Community

Color Library stuck to mouse when replacing missing selection colors

I am experiencing a situation where the color library popup is remaining attached to my mouse when I replace missing selection colors. I have condensed several of my color palettes, which left me with missing colors for some components. As I go through and replace the missing colors, the color library popup sticks to the mouse until I hit the ESC button. If I press the primary mouse button, it changes the color to whatever my mouse is on. I have a video of this, but “new users cannot upload attachments”.

4 months ago

rania

asked in Ask the Community

No animation in prototype

Gif is not working in prototype. First it was working quiet good but after sometime I tried to play it again in prototype it was not playing. Along with that i made Text scrolling animation it is also not showing any scrolling in Figma prototype.

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4 months ago

wangpenghui158

asked in Ask the Community

Project files are missing

I was still modifying the page two days ago, but when I checked the project today, I found that basically all the files were lost.

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4 months ago

Marco_Antonio_Cantillo_Perez

asked in Ask the Community

Is Figma lowering video resolution as it does with images?

Hello! I’m having a little problem with the new video tool. Basically, I have a video that I want to use, it’s a cyber city with some particles going around. When I add the video to the Design Mode, the thumbnail appears in good quality, even the first time that I start the Presentation Mode the video looks really crisp as the original, however, the moment I add that video to a component or do whatever (resizing, add a shape, etc…) when I go into Presentation Mode the resolution lowers A LOT. Is Figma doing the same thing it does with images? Thank you in advance for any kind of response.

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4 months ago

Adiel_Bawana

asked in Ask the Community

My font is missing constantly even though it's installed

I have tried to reinstall the font, reinstall the Figma, restarting my computer, nothing works 🙂

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4 months ago

Bjorn4

asked in Ask the Community

Turning my Free account into a student account?

Hey! I have had a free Figma account for a few months and now I need to change it to be a Student account. Does anybody here know how this is done?

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4 months ago

Abhijit_Kumar

asked in Ask the Community

File not opening in the app or the browser.

Facing this error for many days, the file is not opening in the app not eveen in the browser.

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4 months ago

Joseph6

asked in Ask the Community

Why hasn't my Figma UI been upgraded?

My Figma still shows the old UI, what can I do to upgrade it?

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4 months ago

Yuta_Hidaka

asked in Report a Problem

My Figma Plugin crashed when trying to Export while opening my Plugin

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4 months ago

FireJet

asked in Ask the Community

Can't import plugin while it is being reviewed

I want to continue working on my plugin while it is being reviewed, but it just throws the below error: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Error invoking remote method ‘web:createMultipleNewLocalFileExtensions’: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘path’) I tried with and without developer VM and the plugin id is 1410094626017173831

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4 months ago

eric19

asked in Ask the Community

Documentation in figma

Hi am new to Figma and my question is simple how do I document an existing website with Figma?

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4 months ago

jgiot

asked in Ask the Community

Project deleted

One of my Figma project has been deleted, I don’t know why. It looked like it has a problem and the only button I could click on was “close it”. And then, my project was deleted. I cant even find a window with it

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4 months ago

Irish_Revenue

asked in Ask the Community

Account deleted but email is still active, blocking the user signing up again

Im the admin for our account. I recently deleted a user account due to issues with access. I sent the invite to the user to join again. But when they try to sign up, Figma says the email is in use.

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4 months ago

ByeWind

asked in Report a Problem

I can't update my files in the Figma community

I get the following error when I try to update my Figma community file. I tried all the files posted on the community and got the same error. what do I do? Error message: hub file image not found

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4 months ago

Johanes_A

asked in Ask the Community

Error (node does not exist)

Made a function to search for all instances on the page, and then toggle the ‘Mode’ property values from light to dark, and vice versa. But it stuck after only changing one instance and then I got the error Error in get_name: The node (instance sublayer or table cell) with id ‘xxxx’ does not exist Here is the function. function updateComponentProperties() { const page = figma.currentPage; // Find all INSTANCE nodes on the current page const instanceNodes = page.findAll(node => node.type === 'INSTANCE') as InstanceNode[]; a = 0; for (let i = 0; i < instanceNodes.length; i++) { a = a+1; console.log('this is iteration ' + a); console.log(instanceNodes); const node = instanceNodes[i]; console.log('Opening node:', node.name); const componentProperties = node.componentProperties; if (componentProperties) { console.log('Component properties found:', componentProperties); const propertiesToUpdate: { [key: string]: string | boolean

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4 months ago

Andreas_Pucko

asked in Ask the Community

Variable Selections not showing in layer

I am trying to achieve the following: Show/Hide an element within a component only on certain frames. E.g. On page 1 show a light bulb, on frame 2 do not show it. I have already one collection of variables used for device type. E.g. Desktop. This works. now I added another collection to the local variables with two modes, containing a boolean variable in each one. I would expect this collection to show up within the layer selector, but only the device collection is showing up. Why?

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4 months ago

Leticia_de_Souza

asked in Ask the Community

Can't prototype with design system variables & variant properties

Hi everyone, I created a design system and one of the components is a notification center. In one of the files that I’m using it, I want to make an alert update based on a user interaction, but I haven’t been able to do it without creating multiple instances of the component for each alert. What I would like to do is to create a string variable that updates based on what the user is clicking, and that variable would directly change the description and alert title. Now, here are some issues. I tried making the description and title as a property of the notification center component. That means I can edit it easily, but I can’t link a local variable to it → not helpful. I also tried creating a string variable in the design system itself and publishing it, in the hopes of editing it directly on the file using the design system, but somehow it doesn’t show up in my variables list. Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation from Figma? It feels weird to have to either create multipl

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4 months ago

Slawek_Buczyniak

asked in Ask the Community

Changing image saturation on hover

Hey! Is it possible to set this kind of animation in Figma? I built a grid with 10 images and all I want is to set a hover effect on each one of them. The animation goes from black & white image into colorful. At the moment it only work for the whole frame / grid, but that’s not what I’m looking for. Thank you for the help!

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4 months ago

Kahlil_Boston

asked in Ask the Community

Conditional Variable Issues

I was able to successful make a countdown timer for a project. But when I duplicate this component, which is made to be interactive with itself, into an auto layout, the timer would count back according to how many duplicates exist within the auto layout. For example: If I have 4 timer components in an auto layout, then the timer would count back in increments of 4. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue? Here are my conditional prototype settings:

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4 months ago

Dimitri_Hadjichristou

asked in Ask the Community

Stickies name labels should have the option to turn off

1. Describe the bug/issue you’re running into? Post-Its by default display the creator’s name, which is useful but you should have the ability to turn this off for workshop purposes as a key workshop principle is to keep things anonymous i.e. when we do a post-it session asking everyone to say what’s wrong with something they are more honest because no-one knows who wrote what. 2. Are you able to consistently reproduce it? If so what are the steps? 3. Share a screenshot, recording, console log, link to the file, etc.cln.sh 4. Is the issue only happening in desktop app or a specific browser , or both? Both 5. What OS/version and/or browser/version are you using? Chrome

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4 months ago

Clarissa

asked in Report a Problem

Signed for the UI3 and not getting it

As soon as CONFIG was over I was the only person on my 22 people team that signed up for the UI3. And yet, nowadays almost all of them have it and I don’t. I feel that the sign up was only for show and it’s making somehow frustrated since I really liked the new UI (I have been using on my personal account, which, should I say, also did not sign up for it 😦 )

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4 months ago

UsabilityJeffNew Member

asked in Report a Problem

Did width calculations for "on drag" just break today?

I’ve got a table component where the first column is always fixed and the rest of the columns can drag left (“under” it). As soon as the dragging starts, I show a drop shadow effect under the right edge of the fixed column. When the user drags all the way back, the drop shadow disappears. This all worked perfectly yesterday. Today I notice that the user can only drag an inch to the left before the drag interaction stops. This leaves several columns still clipped off to the right. Also, the drop shadow does not appear. THEN, if I start another left drag interaction, the drop shadow appears and it lets me drag a couple inches past the end point such that I have a blank spot after my right most column!

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