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Luke_Keith
March 26, 2024

Component sort variants for icons

  • March 26, 2024
  • 4 replies
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I need a way to change the order in which icons appear in the properties menu of the component instance. I use components for icons, and it would be nice if the icon names were sorted alphabetically, but instead they appear to be sorted by the order in which they were created. When there is a long list of icons, it makes it harder to find the icon you want.

This is obviously not necessary for most components because they rarely have this number of variants, but for things like icons… it would be a huge help.

4 replies

ksn
Figmate
Community Support
March 27, 2024

hi hi @Luke_Keith - love the feedback on this. While I don’t work with a ton of components (for now, at least), I get how this would be helpful for more complex/detail work with variants.

I switched the category of this over to share feedbak so others can give a +1 if they are looking for something similar.

Simon16
August 8, 2024

Having the same issue with an instance of always growing number of profile pictures of employees. Plugins like Sorter change the position in the instance, but in the properties menu the sort order is always by creation.

Annemarie UXUI
New Member
April 29, 2025

I missing this feature too. I have an enormous design library with icons and the sorting is different in the menu on many of them.

Ben_H
New Member
June 11, 2025

Definitely needed. I’m constantly publishing a component and then realising when I start using it that the variants are in a random order so I have to go back and spend forever correcting it manually