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sararas
sararas
asked in Ask the Community
Animated submenu in an animated menu

I want to make a main menu that slides open from the left and then when clicking on one of the subsections, i want it to slide in from the right and replace the main menu content. Then the user can click a back button within that subnav and slide back over to the main menu content. How do I animate within an animated thing? I can make this work without any internal animation, but i want animation between the main menu and sub menus.

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Raphael_M
11 months ago
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Louis16
asked in Ask the Community
Typestyles in Variables

Can Figma provide timescales for when variables will include the option to use types styles in Modes for theme switching

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
Karicter
Karicter
asked in Ask the Community
Figma toolbar sitting over prototype navigation menu (presentation mode)

Hi, We are updating/reviewing our global navigation system. I created designs using Figma, and continuously struggle when attempting to present my prototypes. The Figma toolbar sits over the prototype’s global navigation bar on hover. e.g.: how can I interact with the “Sign In” button when interrupted by Figma’s toolbar? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kari

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
Marlon
Marlon
asked in Ask the Community
Access dropdown button options in Hover state within the card

I have designed a card that has two states: One “Default” and one “Hover”. In the “Hover” state a drop-down button is displayed. The problem arises when I try to access the button options, since when I move the cursor it is outside the card area, it returns to its “Default” state. How can I solve it, can anyone help me? I would greatly appreciate the community. Design System Generic.fig (1.0 MB)

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Figmate
11 months ago
Ian_Sampaio
Ian_Sampaio
asked in Report a Problem
Prototype overlapped buttons triggers button underneath (with lower z index)

I’ve noticed that my mobile app prototype’s navigation bar (fixed at bottom) constantly triggers buttons scrolled underneath. Visually the navbar is above the content, and it has its own triggers, but upon running the prototype the button below has higher priority, thus triggering its action instead of the navigation’s.

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Ian_Sampaio
11 months ago
Ian_Sampaio
Ian_Sampaio
asked in Report a Problem
Interaction target reversed to none if layer has visibility boolean set to hidden

Interactions set to a frame/object while hidden (viability boolean) by a variable loses interaction target (set back to none, triggers remains). Workaround: unlink visibility boolean from frame, set interaction target, add visibility boolean back

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Ian_Sampaio
11 months ago
Kevin.ssnt
Kevin.ssnt
asked in Ask the Community
Dev Mode Pricing is not Fair!

Anyone feel the same that Dev Mode pricing seat is not fair and confusing? This was painful when you want to just handoff your design for developer to inspect and they don’t need the full access. The full seat is useless for them! Anyone has any solution for this case? I just want to handoff my design to the developers for inspection without them having full access because they might be makes any change to the current design. Is there any seat for just Dev Mode instead of full access?

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Kevin.ssnt
11 months ago
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Matt_Richards
asked in Ask the Community
Design Systems & Dev Handoff

I have the privilege of building out a new brand, design system, design ops and developer handoff processes for a rapidly growing startup. I did the same for my last project and used primarily Sketch, InVision, Google Drive and Confluence, and I ran that for over a decade. I get the sense that a lot has changed since then, and I’ve made the switch to Figma. I’d like to build out a token based design system and components, designs and protos in Figma, and I’m wondering what the best way is to hand these materials off to our developers (working in gitlab, building with vue). Questions: How do you communicate your design system tokens to your dev team? Can it be delivered without them recreating it? Is there a way for Figma components to be converted to usable front-end components? How does your process work? What works well? What doesn’t? Any recommended reading? Any suggestions for where else to post this question? Thank you for your thoughts?

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M
11 months ago
Hannah_Brooks
Hannah_Brooks
asked in Ask the Community
Prototypes load extremely slow (up to 2 min)

I’ve been using Figma prototypes in my unmoderated user testing, and all my prototypes take upwards of 30 seconds to 2 minutes to load for my users. I’ve been able to replicate the problem on both my desktop and mobile device. Once the prototype has loaded, it works well enough (albeit a little laggy), but the upfront loading time is frustrating my users before they even get into testing my product. I’ve tried a lot of things to fix this, but nothing seems to remedy the problem. My prototypes aren’t overly complex - only 5 frames, with overlays swapping in and out. I am working out of a fairly sizable file (.18 GB with ~10 pages and 100k layers), but it’s nothing massive. I’ve also tried duplicating just the prototype page, and it has the same load problems. The only thing I can think of is that I have image files on every screen, but I’ve compressed them as much as I can without reducing usability. Another thing that might be the culprit is the Interactive Components beta feature, but

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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Harish_Hari
asked in Ask the Community
Smart animation not working

smart animation is not working please help me with this.i have tried the same thing three times.i dont know where i made the mistake…

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
tempusername
tempusername
asked in Ask the Community
Plugins for code

I can’t figure in this program, how to use autohtml type plugins? i tried to make adaptive design but no matter how much time I spent, it was all in vain, I never managed transfer the 1920 x 1080 on a laptop with a different screen(1366x720 ) and open in a browser do I need to do everything manually or did I fail relocate because I couldn’t figure out the autolayer?

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
David_Yeiser
David_Yeiser
asked in Ask the Community
Get values associated with styles with files/styles API call

If I hit the file styles endpoint: https://api.figma.com/v1/files/<key>/styles I get an array of objects like so: { "created_at": "2021-03-18T10:57:00.885Z", "description": "", "file_key": "…", "key": "…", "name": "red", "node_id": "2:5", "sort_position": """, "style_type": "FILL", "thumbnail_url": "…", "updated_at": "2021-03-18T10:57:00.885Z", "user": { … } } However what I also need is the value of that style. E.g. "value": "#ff0000" Is there a way to get this? If not, can this be added?

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W
11 months ago
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Catalin_Andrei_Muresan
asked in Ask the Community
Vertical layout not working on button

I have a main component called “button” and the variants. The main component has horizontal layout and icons on the right and left side and the text in the middle. i would like to create a variant with vertical layout where the icon is above or under the text but it seems like when i choose vartical layout in a variant nothing changes. where could be the issue?

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Matt_Rea1
11 months ago
francesca_oprandi
francesca_oprandi
asked in Ask the Community
Prototype variant briefly goes to top of page

Hello, I made a tab element in my desktop prototype. It worked fine until today, when, for some reasons, it started shifting back to top of the page for a second. To explain it better, it should move among tabs keeping the position still, but it moves up top and then back in right position for a second. Anyone can explain why? Thanks in advance!

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GustavoFranzetti
11 months ago
Jhanvi_Bhatia
Jhanvi_Bhatia
asked in Ask the Community
Can I wrap text around an image like photoshop? If yes how?

I want to wrap text around my image, just like the below example made in photoshop. Is there a possible way to do this? Or any plugin?

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Nate_G
11 months ago
Ery
Ery
asked in Ask the Community
Can viewers leave comments?

Hi guys, I have a question about added viewers, that I couldn’t find when I did my research. Can viewers leave comments? Or do they have to be added in as editors in order to do so? How many viewers can I add to a professional account? Sorry if this has been addressed before I couldn’t find any info on that. Thank you!

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dennsi
11 months ago
Andrew_Gray
Andrew_Gray
asked in Ask the Community
Page titles removed for list

Any one else experience the same issue. When working on any given project random page titles get removed from the list in the Pages panel on the left - the content of which is still there but I am forever having to re-enter the Page title?

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
11 months ago
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Teddy_Bartha
asked in Ask the Community
Use variables to mimic filtering interaction

Hi Figma community, I am attempting to prototype using variable to show an interaction where a user applies a checkbox filter, and a set of cards updates based on which filters are selected. I have figured out how to do in a binary fashion, where only one filter can be applied at a time, but not when multiple filters are applied at once. The logic I have instrumented looks like this: When the user starts on the page, no filters are applied, but ALL cards are shown (this is a common pattern in UX/UI design. I created a frame with auto-layout with all the cards, and I bound each individual card to a single filter value using boolean variables and the show/hide functionality – such that, when a user applies one filter (if checkbox = true), then all the cards with filter value assignments that are NOT the user-applied filter will be hidden. What I would like to happen is: When the user starts on the page, all cards are shown and no filters are applied. The user applies filter #1, and al

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Tim_Torres1
11 months ago
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Yuri_Pogodin
asked in Ask the Community
Crash without error message

Help. When i edit any file in desktop app, files are randmly closing with grey screen. No error message… Tried to reinstall windows, clearing cache.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
11 months ago
GR-Tony
GR-Tony
asked in Ask the Community
Figma variables pushed to dev (Json, Storybook)

Hi, Couldn’t find anything specific to our situation. We currently use Sketch and Invision’s DSM (and they are ending their service), and I want to switch to Figma variables. We want to be able to update Variables and “push” those updates for our dev team to use the latest tokens. Is there a plugin or a way to allow for the designers to update the variable and push that update to developer’s Json or Storybook files? Thanks in advance! This is the only Invision-specific service that I need to solve within Figma’s ecosystem.

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Gayani_S
Figmate
11 months ago
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Aryan_More
asked in Ask the Community
Changing one component by interacting with another component

Hello, I am new to Figma, just a beginner in learning about the variables and the interactions. I’m designing an interactive map mobile application, in which when I click on the location tags displayed on the map it will show the respective information of that tag on another component. As shown in the image, if I click on the ‘tag 1’ it should display its information on the bottom blue section likewise for tag 2 and tag 3. Please if anyone can tell me the way to do this, I would greatly appreciate it.

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A
11 months ago
PAWEL2
PAWEL2
asked in Ask the Community
Automated export of assets to the server

Hello, Has anyone explored the idea of plugging Figma into some sort of continous integration tool, to be able to export multiple assets like icons and illustrations in an automated way? So f.e. Assets in Figma are uploaded twice times during the day to the repo that App uses.

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PAWEL2
11 months ago
A
Admin16
asked in Ask the Community
How to apply variable on same instance of the component but use it diffrently

Hi everyone, I’ve designed a textbox library that includes three states: normal, active, and disabled. I’ve assigned a variable string to each of these states. In my project, I’ve duplicated the textbox component multiple times within the same form and linked the variable to all instances. However, I’m encountering an issue in preview mode. When one instance is clicked and changes its property from the normal state to the active state, all other instances also transition to the active state simultaneously. I’ve considered creating multiple variables for each textfield, but this approach becomes impractical when dealing with a large number of textfields (more than 100) across the design. I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions or solutions the community might have to address this challenge. Your help is invaluable! Thank you

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Raphael_M
11 months ago
chesterhow
chesterhow
asked in Ask the Community
Read clipboard data on button click

Hi folks! From my understanding, plugins cannot access window.clipboardData or navigator.clipboard. And so the only way to read clipboard data from a button click is to use window.execCommand("paste") and listen for paste events. While this approach works fine when running Figma via the desktop app, it will not work reliably when running Figma from within a browser (as window.execCommand has been deprecated). I’m wondering if there are alternative methods to reading clipboard data that will work reliably in both the desktop app and within browsers. Thank you!

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chesterhow
11 months ago
rsq
rsq
asked in Ask the Community
how mouse move inside and outside, i dont have this one

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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