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Unpublished components won't show up preferred Slot instances

  • May 8, 2026
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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Opinion, if a unpublished component have been defined as a preferred value, it should be available to be picked.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.