Ability to add/remove/re-order items in an auto-layout component

Couldn’t agree more. This is the single biggest blocker to using Figma design systems for larger, more complex components and patterns.

Can we vote this up? This is a really annoying limitation of components. 

​@Figma_Team any inputs?

This is a really annoying aspect of Figma. It’s a major blocker for complex components. For example, I have an RTE organism that sits within several components. The RTE contains rows of different heading/type/bullet/list styles that the designers need to be able to change the order of to build designs/prototypes. Having to detach the components creates havoc when you then try and create variations of the designs, relying on variables to resize/recolour the components.

How do other users deal with this headache?

Agreed 100%.  I frequently end up having to detach my own instances because the alternative would take too much repetitive editing.

Imagine the scenario - you have a 7 item menu and you realise you need to add a new item at the top.  To achieve this, you either need to detach and hack the instance or you have to rewrite all of the text strings and re-assign icons to every list item (assuming you even have another dummy item at the bottom to unhide).

I pretty often need to re-order menu items between design concept and final spec as the product evolves.  It should be a trivial task.

 

This would be so great to have

Agree with all comments here, I run into this at least once a week, very frustrating limitation. (I initially thought this was just a setting our component library architects had forgotten to enable, but no...it’s an actual Figma limitation!)

Thoughts on this ​@seni ​@dvaliao @Celine_ ?

Has there been any movement on that front? It’s a big limitation for design systems and using them

+1 – This would be a great feature. In theory it could be implemented as a component property, controllable both in the canvas area and in the properties panel where it’d be reflected – drag and drop to reorder maybe?

Running into this problem right now in our design system. It would be so much better if I could just reorder in the Asset rather than breaking it to do so.