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In Figma’s playground file for the (beta) AI features, there’s a hands-on example for the AI feature called Replace Content. It sports a (vertical) auto-layout frame with two similar objects. When you select the frame, a wide handle appears on its bottom edge (in the instruction called the Duplicate Bar) , offering the option do drag up and down and add multiple instances of the same object(s).It looks and works a lot like the Repeat Grid of Adobe XD – the only featured I missed now and then in Figma, so I’m a happy camper now ! 😄The feature works very well, and the obvious next task of replacing the repetitive texts for uniquely generated dummy texts, also works very nicely BTW.But how did they get this Duplicate Bar to appear ?I can’t find anything about it in any Figma Help resources. Just this tidbit in the beta AI example.So I tried and tested it a bit, and it seems to me that you need at least 2 by 2 elements: 2 elements in one group or auto-layout, copied or duplicated into 2 s

Please unarchive this topic because now I cannot even send it as an answer to other people who are asking this question because they cannot access it.

Hey all, wondering if anyone else is running into this…When I open a screen in prototype mode and click “Present,” the interactions work totally fine on that screen. But when I cycle to the next screen in the flow, things start breaking — interactions stop working properly or disappear altogether.The really weird part is that the prototype connections also seem to move around or shift across the page. The only way I can get it to behave is to close the present tab and reopen it directly on the screen I want to test — but obviously that’s not ideal for testing full flows. (I have attached photos I have taken, I had to use my phone as I couldn’t screen print while clicking to show the blue prototype links)I also get it with things like my navigation bars - I have complex components set up to cycle through my system and they will totally glitch out and show colours and ui that is not even in the design.Is anyone else experiencing this? Would love to know if it’s just me or a wider bug.Che

When Figma Make is processing something complex, it can take a while to complete. During that time, I usually switch to other design files to keep working. But there’s no indication that Make is still running or has finished.I often have to switch back and forth 5–6 times just to check if the process is done, which breaks focus and slows down my workflow.It would be great if there was some small visual feedback showing that Make is still building or has completed, even when I’m on another tab. For example, the Make tab icon could rotate or change state.This would make multitasking in Figma smoother and reduce unnecessary tab switching. Figma make tab icon 

I have a numeric input field as a component, and its value is set as a text property called value. Pretty simple stuff, right?For prototyping reasons, I want to bind this field's value to a number variable, so I can add/subtract to this value when I press a button somewhere else on the screen. Also pretty simple stuff, right? Well, apparently not. Turns out I just found out that we can't bind number variables to text properties for whatever reason — they don't even show on search results. And since there's no component property of type number, this simple prototyping scenario I'm trying to achieve appears to be impossible. Meanwhile, if I simply remove the value property from my component, then select the plain text layer with the value and try to bind it to my number variable, voilá — now it works. Except it doesn't, because now all my fellow designers will have to manually select and edit their numeric input field's values every time they use this component.So my suggestion here is e

Hi,The addition of annotations and measurements to Design mode is such a great decision.However this is rendered almost useless if the annotations and measurements can’t be made visible to View Seat users.Often annotations are used for communication with a range of stakeholders, not just designers and developers. It’s not viable to upgrade every stakeholder to a Full or Dev seat to engage with this content.

before 🤗Previously, you could generate a [no expire] tokennow 😔If users rely on tokens to access the figma open api, forgetting to replace expired tokens can cause serious problems.The expiration date of the limited period will cause the figma token to no longer have usage value. 

I have just realised that the links in my slides document (anchor to certain slides/pages) are still present in the exported PDF but: Unfortunately they no longer link to the specific pages but to my Figma Slides file in editor mode. This means that viewers can read my notes even without an Figma-Accout. It would be very helpful if this bug (if it is one) is fixed or at least to get more options when exporting as a PDF file such as the option ‘interactive’ or ‘non-interactive’.

This makes it easier to use components in designs for different screen sizes. And then you don’t have to calculate every time what 40% or 60% of the width is. This also makes it easier to design scalable applications that grow with the width of the screen.

I would like the possibility to add drag and drop in Figma prototypes in which you can reorder items in an auto-layout frame. Right now it is limited to adding a simulated drag and drop of one item, without auto-layout applied to the parent group/frame. Unless you create different flows to allow multiple items to be dragged and dropped, but always from a static position, to a static position. I’d like that extra bit of freedom, as it allows for better prototypes and conversations.

Hello Figma Team,My name is Faraz, and I am a UI/UX designer who frequently uses Figma for both design and animation. While I truly enjoy designing and animating in Figma, I often face challenges when developers request animations in GIF or video format with high resolution.Currently, Figma does not provide a direct option to export animations as high-quality GIFs. From a user’s perspective, this creates difficulties and forces us to rely on external tools such as Jitter or LottieFiles, which makes the workflow less efficient.I would like to request that Figma introduce an option to export animations directly as high-resolution GIFs. This feature would make Figma even more powerful and self-sufficient, eliminating the need for external animation tools and significantly improving collaboration between designers and developers.Thank you for considering my feedback.Best regards,Faraz

What can you do when you have unattached comments? There should be an option to place it back on a frame or object inside the canvas. Vote here if you have the same issue. (original question here: What do you do with Unattached comments? ) It would be great if @figma can let us reattach lost, unattached comments back to a frame. Even better if the comment automatically falls back to a children frame underneath when you ungroup a frame, to which the comment is attached. That just reduce unattached comments from happening.

This is odd behaviour in my mind!When i select an item and use the scale tool, it makes the new size its default 1x when i reselect that element.Example:I select an image, set the scale to 1.2x, go about my business, return because i want to return that item to it’s initial 1x scale, increase or decrease it. The new size has now been set as its default 1x. and now i have to do math!Why wont it just remember that i set it to 1.2x? This behaviour is weird and makes me wanna use scale less!

Option to select a precise video frame for the thumbnail preview.

Copy/pasting prototypes is possible with simple click interactions, as explained here: Create interactions – Figma Learn - Help Center however this does NOT work for conditional interactions with multiple if/then/else statements, which is arguably much more important, as it takes way longer to reproduce/copy over to another component.

I’ve never reported a bug with figma since they launched.Has anyone been experiencing a greater number of breaking bugs lately? Don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve had to report a whole bunch of issues to expected behaviour.Shortcuts being over-ridden to rotate instead instead of layer up, down.Strokes not setting colour correctly on layer mask images.Font weight selector not working for currently selected font.Canvas dragging after mouse click movement has stopped.Effects panels requiring a close and re-open to be able to adjust settings.Patchy library updates not always updating when attemptingI’ve reported all these individually, but if anyone at figma passes signal up from this community forum, this is a significant number of tiny issues that block or slow down work which I’ve never experienced from the product before in approx 8-9 years. Do with that information whatever you please.

Mass selecting elements in Figma can be a pain. Especially with the new changes to auto-layout sometimes elements will get nested 4 or 5 frames deep. In Sketch, you can press Cmd+Opt while dragging to select a group of objects. When you do this it will only select elements completely within the drag area. This makes mass selecting way more powerful. I’d love to see Figma copy it or come up with something better.

I would like to ask: are there plans to introduce such a feature (tool) for Figma Draw as an eraser in the future? For example, it could easily erase unnecessary vector graphics down to the smallest detail. That is, I mean the eraser, which is have for example, in Adobe Photoshop and MS Paint.

We want our Figma file, which utilizes a shared library, to automatically change its status from "ready to dev" to "changes have been made" every time a change happens in that shared library.

Hello! This is feedback for the Figma team. It would be so awesome to be able to see what was modified specifically when publishing components to avoid any potential unwanted changes that went under the radar. I see it will show some components or variable changes as “modified” with an arrow. But others it doesn’t show what was changed. Any insight into why this is would be helpful. Thank you! 

Hi Figma team,I'm reaching out with a request on behalf of several developers on our team who use Linux as their primary development environment.Currently, the MCP (Multi-Context Preview) feature is locked behind the Figma desktop app, which is only available for macOS and Windows. This poses a challenge for Linux developers who are unable to access or use MCP due to the lack of a supported desktop app.We’d love to see one of the following: A Linux version of the Figma desktop app to unlock parity across development environments. An alternative way to run an MCP server without the desktop app, such as a standalone CLI or server binary that can be installed independently. This would greatly improve the development experience and make Figma’s workflow more accessible to cross-platform teams.Thanks for considering this request!

Any way to only paste cell values in comments? when copying from excel, pasting in comments includes cell markup. in the example below of what pastes in comments, i am only trying to paste the link " https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/clinic-visit " usage for this is that we are given a link grid and link tagging structure to paste in comments to make it easier for and marketers to QA what the links should be. it didn’t start pasting this way until recently this is what pastes: table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:“.”; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:“,”;}tr {mso-height-source:auto;}col {mso-width-source:auto;}td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignore:padding; color:black; font-size:11.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;}.xl671 {color:#4472C4; vertical-align:middle; border:.5pt solid windowt

Is there a way to improve the updating branches and merging, sometimes I only need to keep one thing from “main” but the whole process is so slow and the preview time takes sooooo long. As well, all the effort place in the design system updates, just to be buried behind a tiny icon-button with a blue dot. Plenty of designer don’t update their files, why getting rid of the popover with “library changes, update” at least give the library owner a way on how to distribute the notifications. 

Been playing around with the “expose nested properties” feature currently in beta. One of the great uses of variant properties is the ability to batch edit property values on multiple selected components. That use doesn’t carry over to exposed nested properties (yet I hope). Demo file to help When selecting one component instance exposing nested properties, said properties display fine. Add another instance of the same component to your selection (using Shift+Click), and the nested properties outright disappear from the right panel. I haven’t seen this issue raised elsewhere! Do you experience it too?

My main goal is to align our typography tokens closer to code. In code, we don’t need a “body-lg-bold” text style because it can be done in code with <strong>.However in Figma, if I don’t define it as a text style (like “body-lg-bold”) and use “body-lg” and then bold it with “command+B”, the “boldness” resets in interactions or resets when a designer re-enters the text box.Has anyone found a solution to this without breaking text-styles? What does your design system do?Is this something that we cannot align with code?