Copy comments when duplicating a page, duplicating a project, manually copy-pasting frames, etc

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copy comments from a Figma file to another one while duplicating/copying content/designs.

As a researcher (aka I am not the Figma Guru) working with designers in the Figma files. Being able to have a copy of my comments for my records as researcher and pushing duplicate comments for the designer to resolve as they wish to without interfering with my historical copy of why we decided to change the design would be a wonderful product addition!

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I often need to copy and paste frames to a different Figma page or elsewhere in the same page. However, comments are not copy-pastable to my knowledge.

These frames always contain valuable comment threads that I keep to record important discussions that have design implications.

My only recourse is to either (1) manually drag comments to a location in the same page or (2) manually create new comments and copy/paste the original comments’ text copy.

Has there been a solution to the copying over of comments along with a file if you copy the file from 1 file to a new file in Figma? Thank you

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Hi - I’ve been working on some flows that have pinned comments. The page was getting crowded, so I was attempting to split the flows onto individual pages. However, when I cut and pasted the artboards with pinned comments, the artboards successfully cut/pasted to the new location, but the comments stayed where they were 😦 I would love it if the comments traveled with the content across pages - just so I can move my work around but keep a record of the conversation surrounding it. Thx!!

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to use the API to get file comments and then post them in the same location on another file which is a duplication of the original.
Figma attaches comments in frames to a node_id.
Does anyone know if the new file (the duplicated one) has a different node_id for the frames than the original? if so, how can I post the comments on the new file at the same location, any ideas?

My company lets developers access one master doc–us designers create our designs in our messy files, clean things up, and then paste everything in the master doc.

I LOVE THE COMMENTING FEATURE, but bc I can’t copy/paste comments, I can’t communicate specs/interactions with my dev team in this way. Can we make copy/pasting comments along with designs into another Figma file possible please?

Right now I have to transcribe comments into out-of-frame design elements for my handoff.

THANKS.

YES PLEASE! This is absolutely necessary and would really improve the experience. So far there is nothing that solves this.

Thanks for the feedback, @Stacy_Chen1 and @gabi4!

We’ve merged your request with an existing one to ensure we have an accurate gauge of interest from the community.

this is a very needed functionality!!! thank you for starting convo! @figma a reply and timeline would be much appreciated on this topic!

This feature has been noted a few times in Figma forums

When consolidating Figma and FigJam files, it is quite a pain for us to not have the comments carried with the objects being copied. I’m sure others feel the same way. I would love to see this on the roadmap as an option (e.g. after pasting, it asks if comments should be included or not).

If anyone finds or creates a plug-in that can copy Figma or FigJam comments, please share it here!

Hey All, thanks for the feedback! We’ll pass this onto our team for the consideration.

It’s absolutely needed we work in a studio file and a client file and and we get the comments on the client file. We need a way to transfer the commend to the studio file .
the reason for having two files in the first place is to not disclose our work on the project between meetings.

just having a copy with comments shortcut would do

Hi, when we move mockups to another project or page, all comments that were attached to a mockup stay on the old page/project. So it means they do not follow what they are belonging with. It is a redundant issue that I meet when I try to curate my designs and I would be happy if you could fix that. It should work with a cut/paste or copy/paste.

I have seen some posts were you explain that we need to use the right-hand button but it is clearly not intuitive as I have never seen this after more than 1 year of use of your software now.

I ran into this issue today when moving components from a work file into the design system. My coworker is on leave now so theres some comments she left in the component, I don’t want to delete it so when i tried transferring the component all the comments disappeared. would be helpful if you cut the comment it can be moved to another page or another file. thank you!

I’m chiming in here as this is a huge +1 from our team of 10. Our file has gotten so large and complex and when we want to split pages off, it becomes a choice of if we want to lose context from our comments or not.

I really hope to see this soon, because we’ve been having this issue for at least a year and it would make our Figma experience 10x…

Agree with Mike - our small team often overloads files as well. Comments are essential for our stakeholders, engineers, everyone. Battling memory vs. comments when we encounter this is crazy.

I really need it

I hope this gets added soon. At least allow us to toggle the option to copy comments on demand.

Much needed!