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Unpublished components won't show up preferred Slot instances

  • May 8, 2026
  • 2 replies
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Corey_Korhan

Reproduction: 

  • Created a dropdown component
  • defined slot areas for dropdown menu ‘the rows’
  • created a seperate singular component and named it ‘_row’ (so it wouldn’t get published)
  • defined ‘_row’ as the preferred value forr the slot area
  • but when dropdown component published, and pulled into another figma file ‘_row’ doesn’t show up as it’s not a published component. 

Opinion, if a unpublished component have been defined as a preferred value, it should be available to be picked. I basically do not want to expose a building block to the other designers because it’s never going to be used anywhere else apart from the dropdown window. 
 

How it looks when called from another file.
How it looks inside the library file. 

 

2 replies

Sarah_Dyer
  • New Member
  • May 18, 2026

I am having this issue now— it used to just work. Not sure which update changed this behavior but now I can’t swap nested instances to other preferred components. 


Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey, ​@Sarah_Dyer 👋 That sounds unexpected. You can share the bug report through our Support Hub or from within Figma by selecting the question mark icon  in the bottom-right corner of any page and selecting Contact support — What to share in a bug report to Figma Support

If you have any issues getting that support ticket opened, let me know and I’m happy to help. Talk soon! — Jaycee