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Tyran_Van_Zyl
Tyran_Van_Zyl
asked in Ask the Community
Dev Mode and Editing my designs

I see to enable someone for Dev mode I need to give them “Full Design Access”, how does that stop devs from changing the design files? shouldn’t the designs be locked & they only have access to the code & assets. Mistakes happen, and I want to circumvent something accidentally deleted or changed. How do I prevent this from happening? Or am I missing the proper way to add DEV MODE for my team?

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5 months ago
Kshitij_Thakur1
Kshitij_Thakur1
asked in Ask the Community
What if Figma had Haptic feedback and UI Skins!

Hi all community members, I had a crazy thought today. What if Figma had options to customize its UI, like changing colors, background transparency, and text sizes, or even applying pre-designed skins, like Anime-themed or Cyberpunk-themed ones? Another idea: What if Figma had the option to enable haptic feedback? For example, when aligning an object in the center of the frame or with another object, it could provide haptic feedback. Just imagine what that experience would be like! I can’t stop thinking about this, so I wanted to share this wild thought here. Please let me know what you think!

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Kshitij_Thakur1
5 months ago
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abdo2
asked in Ask the Community
Figma Plugin with react

Greetigns, I’m trying to build a Figma plugin using React and typscript, somehow I get a weird error saying Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'createElement') even though I tried to match my configuration files with some working plugins on github. for reference, here is my configuration files: my tsconfig.json { "compilerOptions": { "target": "es6", "module": "commonjs", "lib": ["es6", "DOM"], "strict": true, "jsx": "react", "typeRoots": [ "./node_modules/@types", "./node_modules/@figma" ], "skipLibCheck": true, "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true, "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true, "outDir": "./dist", }, "include": [ "src", "code.ts" ], "exclude": [ "node_modules" ] } and here is webpack.config.json: const path = require('path'); const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin'); const InlineChunkHtmlPlugin = require('inline-chunk-html-plugin'); // Add this

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5 months ago
Monika_Narusyte
Monika_Narusyte
asked in Ask the Community
Design Critiques within the Figma Community

Hi all, I’m exploring ways to build better Design Crits within Figma Community. If you could spare a moment, I’d love to hear about your experiences: How do you currently get feedback on your designs? What are the biggest challenges you face when seeking critiques? Can you walk me through the last time you received a design critique? How did it go? What tools or platforms do you use to get design feedback, and what do you like or dislike about them?

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Monika_Narusyte
5 months ago
OleBerlin
OleBerlin
asked in Ask the Community
Interaction to Change of component variants does not work. Tried three workarounds. Figma became unusable

First of all: What is going on with Figma? It has become absolute shit and not usable. There are just tons of bugs and nothing gets fixed. Weren’t you guys acquired by Adobe?? The mobile app always crashes as soon as my phone falls asleep. Variables aren’t working as they should. Interactions don’t work. What the heck? This is a product you want people to pay for? The current bug I have a component with three buttons. One is “selected” or dark. I’m building an interaction where a user clicks on one button and then this button is turning dark and the other one bright again. So I created a component with three variants, one for each selected button. Now I try to add a “change to” interaction on the buttons. The idea is: When a user clicks on Button 2, the component changes to “Active=Button2”. The problem: The selected variant in the interaction is not saved. So it always stays at “change to: None”. This has been reported already here: Trying to use Change To, but can't select a compone

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5 months ago
Cargo
Cargo
asked in Ask the Community
Size property error of a component variant in a component variant

Hey yall, I’m confused about a behavior of a component. I have buttons that can be of two kinds: primary and secondary. Putting either in a component (the black bar) is no issue but once I do that in a variant of the bar, the colors change but not the size. I don’t know what causes this. Is this a bug or I’m missing something? New to Figma myself Thanks to whoever knows the answer to in advance

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Cargo
5 months ago
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Katrina_Ellie
asked in Ask the Community
Horizontal Scrolling triggering touch up touch down vertical scrolling

drive.google.com here is the vid (I cannot upload since I’m new here…)

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K
5 months ago
figma-1682
figma-1682
asked in Ask the Community
Need support for export PNG files with no alpha channels

When I was working on App Store screenshots, I received an error message “image can’t contain alpha channels or transparencies”. I tried to fix this error using this plugin, but it also did not respond well. Export Opaque PNG | Figma Community It would be extremely beneficial if we could export PNG files with no alpha channel.

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J
5 months ago
Tal_Sluk1
Tal_Sluk1
asked in Ask the Community
How do i set the initial state of smart component after it was swapped as an instance?

So basically I have a master component of a dialog. Inside the dialog I have a “placeholder” called Dummy Instance. when duplicating an instance of the dialog smart component Im selecting the “Dummy instance” and swap variable with a smart component from my library. Im wondering how do I set the initial state of the new swapped smart components? When im swapping the “dummy instance” with an Input it chooses to swap with the “Small” size version by default, I’d like it to be the “Medium” size

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Tal_Sluk1
5 months ago
Matheus_Pimentel
Matheus_Pimentel
asked in Ask the Community
Image resized

What is image resized? Does it have any effect on the image? Before, this information didn’t appear when an image was inserted, but after updating Figma to the UI3 version, it seems to have started appearing every time an image is inserted into Figma.

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Matheus_Pimentel
5 months ago
Poseidon
Poseidon
asked in Ask the Community
How to find the exact Creation Date of your Figma files?

Hello! While moving my drafts, I had to choose whether or not I should delete them. The “creation date” of my files became a very important element to make these decisions… except there’s no precise date written anywhere. There’s only “2 years ago” and such. So I looked it up on the blog and forum. And, surprisingly, there’s little to no content about this issue. From what I read, the only solution given in years was to open the “history version” and look up to the bottom (thanks to the paid plan). The only workaround I have found so far is to manually write the creation date inside every new file you create, but it does not apply retroactively lol. So my initial question was: how to look at the file’s creation date? Then my question became: why is it not possible to look at this basic metadata of my files? Alternatively, are there plans to finally make it available easily for everyone? Thank you in advance.

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Poseidon
5 months ago
Hoby-Van-Hoose
Hoby-Van-Hoose
asked in Ask the Community
Are plugins allowed to select components?

I’m trying out the new Dev Mode and several plugins for exporting code—and I’m finding that the ones that require selecting frames are unable to select components. Is this an intentional limitation or a bug? I think I can get around this by putting a component in an otherwise needless frame but it would be cleaner to just be able to select components. Plugins tried:

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Gleb
5 months ago
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raha
asked in Ask the Community
I choose text alignment but it doesn't work!

Why it isn’t working?

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Gleb
5 months ago
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Vaibhav_Satishkumar
asked in Ask the Community
How to fit a frame to the dimensions of the screen?

Hi! I am new to Figma, and I was learning about how to use Auto Layout. I got all my components into the right spot, and when I change the dimensions of the frame they’re in, they adjust accordingly. When I run it and preview the frame in a different devices however, the entire frame itself just sticks out and doesn’t fit the screen. Here is an image showing what I see As you can see, there are still some black spaces. I was wondering how I could make it so that the frame will always have width and height dimensions that change depending on whatever screen I choose, so that one design fits all. Thank you in advance for your help

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kiprou
5 months ago
Asaad_Mahmood1
Asaad_Mahmood1
asked in Ask the Community
Can't publish plugin, (Error finalizing plugin: plugin code, icon or image not found)

I have uploaded the image, the icon, and the details required, and also did a npm run build. The plugin runs fine for me on dev too. And I get the error:

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Gleb
5 months ago
Asaad_Mahmood1
Asaad_Mahmood1
asked in Ask the Community
Why doesn't a map work in actions array for reactions?

I am trying to do this: const focusReaction: Reaction = { trigger: { type: 'ON_CLICK' }, actions: [ // Set the current focusFlag to true { type: 'SET_VARIABLE' as const, // Explicitly setting the type to 'SET_VARIABLE' variableId: focusFlag.id, variableValue: { resolvedType: 'BOOLEAN', type: 'BOOLEAN', value: true, }, }, // Set all other focusFlags to false ...variableObjects .filter((vo) => vo.focusFlag.id !== focusFlag.id) .map((vo) => ({ type: 'SET_VARIABLE' as const, // Explicitly setting the type to 'SET_VARIABLE' variableId: vo.focusFlag.id,

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Gleb
5 months ago
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shun1
asked in Ask the Community
How do you get the blendMode and opacity of a SectionNode using the plugin API

I was hoping to get the blendMode and opacity values for SectionNode from the plugin api, but I couldn’t find them

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tank666
5 months ago
Bilal5
Bilal5
asked in Ask the Community
How are developers supposed to access variables?

I might be missing something essential here, but I can’t seem to figure out any way for developers (who have view-only, dev mode access) to actually view variables in a file/project/design system? As far as I can see, they can only inspect single components. So they might see “button-primary-bg” for instance, and a corresponding hex color, in the dev mode side panel. But absolutely nowhere can they actually figure out what “button-primary-bg” is referring to (typically a color primitive, which again refers to a hex code). Not only is the alias not visible in the side panel, but the full list of variables is not accessible in dev mode either, as far as I can see. I mean, it’s probably okay if you look at the design system as a static thing, where we could do a one-time export of all variables as a .json or something. But design systems are seldom static. New components are being created, and thus new aliases are needed quite often, specially in the early stages of a project. Am I crazy

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George_B1
5 months ago
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ashwin.J.shenoy
asked in Ask the Community
Figma library and usage API for data gathering and analytics

Hi Figma Community, We are trying to see if there exists any API using which we can fetch data used in library analytics such as library usage, component info and weekly insertion of styles and components by teams. We are trying to create custom analytics that we need using this data and would appreciate any kind of help in this regards. Thanks

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Philipp_Uxr
5 months ago
Brie_Skolaski
Brie_Skolaski
asked in Report a Problem
Variables are marked as modified but no changes were made

We have a design system file that is showing changes that need to be published, for 192 variables and any component that uses those variables. However, neither of the two team members who have access to edit have made any changes. The version history shows a few auto saves over the last few days, but no work was actually done. This is very concerning and we’re not sure what to do or why these would be showing up as changes. Additionally it would be GREAT if the main files would have the same feature that branches do, to show was changed before you publish.

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ksn
Figmate
5 months ago
Ring_s_End
Ring_s_End
asked in Ask the Community
Transparent images upload with white background

Transparent images import with white background

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ksn
Figmate
5 months ago
Saffrontech
Saffrontech
asked in Ask the Community
Request to Restore Deleted Team with Important Files

I accidentally deleted a team in my Figma account, which contains some crucial files. Unfortunately, I did not receive any confirmation email regarding the deletion. Could you please assist me in recovering the deleted team and the files associated with it? These files are extremely important for our ongoing projects, and I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide to restore them.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
5 months ago
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Michal_Fish_Ben_Hamo
asked in Ask the Community
How to change direction of linear smart animation?

I looked for answers to my question, I found a lot of questions but I didn’t find any answers. I want the menu bar open to left side- I want it to open in the direction of the red arrow, but it opens in the direction of the blue arrow and goes out of frame. I used smart animation-> linear

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A
5 months ago
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Anna_F
asked in Ask the Community
How to specify an origin point to expand from in a prototype?

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to help! It’s kind of hard to explain (no idea if the title adequately summarises it hah), so I’ll explain with context: I’m prototyping a menu with several buttons that will sit at the base of the screen, and when one of those is selected a smallish popup appears with a menu. The issue arises that, although my prototype works, the placement of it gets offset because the kind of origin point is the top left, expanding towards the bottom right (as is often appropriate). The goal for me would be to figure out a way to (functionally) make the hotbar a static base, and make prototype expand upwards and out from there once it shifts into the popup variables. I’ve included images to make the point easier to get: Expected outcome: Current outcome: It’s possible i’m missing something obvious, I’m still new ish to Figma - but if you’re able to advise, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

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A
5 months ago
CindyFlower
CindyFlower
asked in Ask the Community
The Figma file suddenly disappeared!

I was halfway through my work when the Figma file suddenly disappeared. It is not in the Deleted area. It seems like this file never existed. I can’t find it anywhere.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
5 months ago
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