Allow searching for a page

1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this

I have a lot of pages in some files so sometimes finding the one I need is a pain. It would be great to have a local search box, and also expand the range of the Search in “Quick actions”. A global search that looks through pages and frame names would be even better.

And things in the layer list as well! (Weird that this still is not done yet, seems so obvious).

Thank you for bringing this up! I’m missing this almost on a daily basis. I create pages with design files for Jira Tickets and name them with the number and name of the ticket. I’d love to search for them by just entering the number.

1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this

I am trying to locate a specific page and cannot do that without first identifying which file said page lives in. This is especially helpful when working with a large team on a project with alot of file turnover.

2. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.)

The solution would require Figma to add “Pages” to their search criteria.

3. Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation

All existing plug-ins require the need to first drill into the specific file.

I’m shocked it has so few votes, but it is such a must. Even in design system files or our production files, we have TONS of pages.

At the bare minimum please highlight the page I’m currently on not just a tick that is so hard to see, but the search would be lifesaving.

Do you see which page I’m on? (trust me it’s so easy to miss on large scale too)

I wholly agree, from the first day I saw Figma I’ve been quite surprised it’s lacked Layer search — not only is it something I used constantly in Sketch, it’s the sort of thing that seemed a “no brainer” for the ‘web-inspired/first’ Figma UX.

…and more fundamentally just the lack of text search seems a real miss that also emphasises how painfully slow Figma extensions can be — but then I guess that’s part of the answer, perhaps something about their WebGL, WASM (it’s totally not a “web app”) tech stack makes tree-traversal and text handling really inefficient…?

sometimes when we work with multiple pages inside a Design file we can loose soe much time looking for a specific page; specially when we are working with design systems (that are usually organized as a page for component).

example: if I’m working with a new design system and I need to find a slider component there is usually a page just for that which will be called “sliders”, so it would be so much easier and faster to type slider in a search bar for pages instead of scrolling with in 20 to 30 pages to find the page.

I will attach here a possible solution, hopefully the team might find this useful

While I have worked in multiple teams I see that the pages inside a Figma design file is named either by a Jira ticket or the [Ticket Name] that they are trying to solve taking that into consideration, I was wondering we could have a search function on the left-hand side bar for page section with tags and everything.

Problem: Hard to search pages with the lots of tickets(Pages) in a single design file. This problem escalates even more when there is lots of changes in the team.

Ticket Names are usually [XYCD-999 : TICKET NAME]

If there is a solution already, please let me know. thanks!

It is a really must, actually, it is one of the stopping points, that we can’t go for full Figma, as don’t have this tool.

Currently one of my files has a lot of pages. Finding a page I want to go to is very laborious to find the destination. I need a place that can give me a quick search.