Convert Number Variable To String Variable (and convert variable groups)

Hey @Jim_Knox, thanks for your valuable feedback! I’ve passed this along to the team for consideration.

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Thanks,
Gayani

Since this post, ive found a better hierarchy for organising variable collections, although I still think converting a string to number is vialuable and vice versa

Indeed! There should be a ‘eval’-function or something to evaluate the number, and use it as a string in components that needs a string value! Like if you alter numbers with math, and need to show new results. (Most (all?) our corporate components doesn’t support numbers as variables for fields)
It would also be VERY useful with local variables, as opposed to global variables, that could be used inside a component, and have different values in different instances of the component. This would make it possible to use the same component several times and fill and alter those instances with different content. 

The general interoperability of numbers and strings should be improved in Figma, but this suggestion would be a great stop-gap that is almost certainly easier to implement. It instantly makes working with variables way more useful as string variables can be left untouched while number variables get modified by triggers. Of course, notation of number variables should be introduced as a version of a number variable or something, so there can be commas for thousands separators.