Copy/Move variable groups into other collections

Hey All, thanks for your continued votes and feedback!

For transparency, the Variables team is very aware of the need for improvement here. But right now, their bigger focus is around fixing bugs and UX simplicity in the consumption of variables. The team still has eyes on this topic, and they definitely appreciate your feedback.

My community team here will continue to advocate on your behalf for prioritization, and we’ll provide a more accurate timeline as soon as the Variables team is able to provide one.

1+ year has passed since release. We need it. Managing variables is really hard.

@Artyom_Lezhnyuk I’m with you. I don’t unterstand, why such a fundamental “function” is not available and because of that, I’cant use them to 100%.

Without this functionality, I cannot and do not want to use the variable 100% of the time, as the customisations are far too time-consuming. Using extensions for this is also out of the question for me.

Hi Figma Team and Community!

I’ve been working extensively with variables, and I’ve found that there’s currently no way to copy or duplicate a collection of variables within the same file. This would be extremely helpful when managing multiple versions or iterations of designs that use similar variables across collections.

It would be great to have a feature that allows us to easily:

• Duplicate entire variable collections within a file.
• Copy specific variables from one collection to another.

This would save a lot of time compared to manually recreating variables and collections. Is this something that’s on the roadmap or being considered? I’m sure many other users would benefit from this feature as well!

Thanks in advance!
Nitin Sonwane

I appreciate the transparency, but with all due respect, I don’t think the dev team understand how much this is limiting variables in the actual application. I can not stress enough how much time is wasted trying to organise variables. There must surely be a way to implement the ability to select variables and move them into another collection. Please, please feed this back to the team - this should be much higher priority than it sounds like it’s been given.

Duplicate of this

Go vote 🙂

Yes please, would love this!

Please, stop developing anything else and make this function! Move Variables across collection! This need is here from tha beginning of Variables! Now it is not beta! Make it. This is so needed!!!

+1 Yes please! We need this.