Calculation formula within variable input

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Hey folks, first of all I love the new variable function. Within the setup of spacings I want to reference my base value (“8”) and do calculations, e.g. (spacing-base)*2". This works fine and the value is calculated properly within the input to add a new variable. But I expected not that the calculation string changes to the absolute value. With this behaviour I loose the connection/ reference to my base value and the calculation is some how obsolete.

Does anybody feel the same?
Will there be an update?

Thanks

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ROB002

New Participant

This seems like a no brainer, not sure why Figma seems to be kicking the can down the road on this one. It was a missing feature from the get go and now that they have Responsive as an option in the viewer it seems even more so. Please Figma, bump up the priority on this one.

Jack_Reeves

New Participant

Tagging here to keep alive however after posting multiple requests over the last 5years that are all sensible - relatively easy features to add - only to get no response i feel like this forum is a waste of time.

still no background picture positioning to match css
still limited number of variables except enterprise
still no simple calculations on variables

All in favour of AI features no designer asked for.

Andri

I agree, the Figma team is slooooow when it comes to adding new things. One problem is that there is really not any competition. Sketch is way behind and doesn’t even have auto layout.

Figma could be so much better but for some reason they decided to build an enierly different product (FigJam) instead of making Figma more useful.

Lucian_Tudorache

New Participant

+1 — I think everyone agrees that this is a must!

ViktorO

This is absolutely essential functionality. It would make the handoff to the devs much more intuitive. Combined with native JSON export it’d be golden.