Creating a Make Kit- design library not showing up on the list

Thanks for your post, ​@fayet.

Let’s see if we can figure out together why you aren’t seeing some libraries as available for your Make kit.  For every library that you want available for Make, you’ll need to do the following:

1. In Figma Design, go to the library you want to use in a Make kit.
2. If you haven't yet, publish the library.
3. Click the down arrow next to the file name, and then Use library in Make.

For those that are not showing, can you follow the steps above? I imagine that these libraries are published, but they may still need you to click to use them in Make. 

Let me know if you have any trouble!

I’m seeing this exact same problem, only 5 of my published libraries are available when setting up a Make Kit. Clicking Use Library in Make just takes me to the screen for creating a Kit but the list of libraries hasn’t updated.

I’m seeing the same problem! Not all of our organization’s libraries are showing up. 

Hey both, thanks for flagging this! 

I’m jumping in to help here on behalf of ​@adamsmasher. Before I loop in our support team, could you try the steps below, which ​@adamsmasher also suggested. 

1. Open the Design library file
2. Go to Assets, then Libraries, then Publish
3. After publishing, click Export for Make and allow the export to fully complete
4. Go back to your Make file, click Select a Library, and check if the library now appears

If it’s still not showing up after that, let me know and I can get a support ticket created so the team can investigate further.

Once we create the ticket, it’d be helpful to share:

• A link to the design library file you’re exporting
• A screenshot of the publish modal (showing whether Export for Make is available or any errors)
• Confirmation that the Make file and library file are in the same organization
• View access for support-share@figma.com so the team can check the export state on their end

No need to share any of this publicly here on the forum, you can provide it directly in the support ticket.

Another thing you could try in the meantime is duplicating the library, publishing the duplicate, and then importing that into your Make file.

Let me know how it goes, happy to help further! 

Running in to this same issue here. Even as owner of the library files, there is no option to Export for Make. Even when this library, prior to the change to Make Kits was exported and used in Figma Make files.

Screenshots for reference. Export from the File Name and Export from the top Figma menu.

There is an option to “Use library in Make” which then just takes me to Figma Make with the libraries dialog open and the library I’m wanting to use is not showing up.

I assume this is where others are also running in to the bug.

I’m finding that the previous libraries that I had connected to Figma Make are no longer showing up on in the libraries to help me assemble my kit. 

However, I don’t know where to find these libraries within Figma Make anymore.

I had the same problem. The library I wanted to show up that wasn’t did not have any styles defined in it. I defined one color style and republished the library. The next time I checked the libraries dialog the missing library was no longer missing. Hope this helps!

Thanks for sharing that tip, ​@Sam_Marks! 

Question for everybody - when was the last time some of these libraries were published? Was it recent or a while back. I’m wondering if this is more of an issue with libraries that haven’t been published recently.

I would also add that if you believe there are already styles in the published library, try making another change to the library so you can publish again. After publishing, you can remove or undo the change and then publish a second time.

If you continue to have trouble after that, we can create a ticket for you like ​@Gayani_S suggested so our team can take a look.

Facing the same issue here — the published library isn’t showing in Figma Make while assembling the kit. However, the same file is visible under the Assets section. Also, as mentioned earlier, I’m unable to find the “Export to Figma Make” option.

Thanks ​@Sam_Marks for the workaround to create a style and publish. The library tests I was doing does show up now when trying to select for a Figma Make Kit.

​@adamsmasher - My issues were on libraries that had published changes within the last week and then when duplicating a library to test further it was a brand new publish that was still not available.

Hopefully this information about having at least one style within the library makes it in to some sort of documentation or the requirement gets removed so there aren’t workarounds to make stuff work like it had previously.

Hey all!

I checked with our team just to make sure and can confirm that styles or variables are required in order for the library to show up. I also shared with them that this created some confusion because it wasn’t explicitly clear that this was a requirement.

Edit: Some extra clarification that I just received is that we only extract fill, stroke and text styles, as well as boolean, float and color variables. 

​@Hattie Tadsen, you’ve already found this yourself, but for anyone else wondering which menu this is in - it’s in the Filename dropdown > Library rather than the File dropdown or Figma logo: 

This particular step is covered in the help article on bringing library styles to a make kit.

If anyone has styles or variables in a published library and the option isn’t shown, let me know. I asked for clarification if there are any other nuances to this, but I can also take specific examples to them as well.

​@adamsmasher Have you done anything specific to see the option? Mine doesn’t show

This solution didn’t work for my design libraries - I still only have 5 of 13 published libraries showing up when trying to create a kit. All of my components are linked to styles/variables and I also reorganized and republished my libraries to try and make it even easier for Make to recognize the files but still only the same 5 libraries are showing up.

Sorry to hear that the solution didn’t work for you, ​@Lauren_McKeen.

I just created a ticket for you with our support team and escalated it, so you should get that in your email shortly. When you get a chance, please reply with any information you can about the libraries that are not showing up. I think it would be best for our support team to look at the libraries in specific so they can determine why they aren’t showing. 

Thanks for your patience and for trying the solutions, too!