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Ethan_Wang
October 10, 2022

Change the order of exposed nested instances

  • October 10, 2022
  • 67 replies
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It doesn’t look like there’s an obvious way to change the order of exposed nested instances. Right now the order seems to be based on reverse layer order. It’d be great if the order can be manually adjusted.

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67 replies

Carioca_Andre
New Participant
June 9, 2023

Here to keep this thread alive… I’d love a solution for it

Dennis_N
Power Member
June 15, 2023

I would also like to be able to put them in between other property types instead having them clustered as “nested instanced”.

Why that? In my case I have multiple toggle switches (true/false) which turn on/off nested components. I would like to group these properties as they belong to each other.

Give us more control please 🙏

Ali_Martin1
August 21, 2023

+1 to this request! (Keepin’ the thread alive)

I’m also deep into complex design systems with sometimes dozens of nested instances. It would significantly improve my workflow to be able to re-order them in the properties manager.

For example, I may have a component layer that is close to the top of the auto-layout frame, therefore it displays at the top of the nested instances list. This component might be seldomly changed from its default state, therefore I’d like to place it at the bottom of the list so I can scroll to the most important items first.

Thanks!

Rosieway
September 6, 2023

+100, same boat, want to have the feature that let us drag however the order we need to make the nested instances makes most sense based on our components’ scenarios!!

Mihkel_Ronk
September 8, 2023

Physical order in the layers panel, that is. Helped for me, thanks!

David146
September 29, 2023

I really think this re-pordering function would be a good one to include. So changing the order of nested instance properties but also a very useful addition would be having an option to not expose some properties within that instance.

For example you want the option to turn a layer in that nested instance on/off but you don’t want the text to be changeable even though the master component has both properties. I would like the power to be able to choose which properties are exposed from the nested instance in my final component.

November 9, 2023

+1 to this, encountered this issue today with a complex component we’re looking to add to the design system. It would really enhanced the utility of nested components to leverage this, some things will rarely be changed, but some will often be changed and atm there’s a lot of properties to go through

Gerlof
New Member
January 31, 2024

Bump! I need this!

Lauren5
New Member
February 5, 2024

+100! I would love to be able to reorder nested instances!

Anthony
New Member
February 8, 2024

+100! Bump! Just keeping the thread alive, this needs to happen.