Copy/Move variable groups into other collections

Same here. I made mistake and put my tokens and color modes in one collection and now it doesnt make sense to have modes for my greyscale and other shades. Aliases are already created 😕 so it would totaly make sense form me to move my token colors to new collection that doesnt have modes… 😕

@Michal_Krendzelak exactly. I think it could be also good if there were an option, to split a collection (instead of moving variables to some other collection) this way, the challenge of different value settings would be gone, and help us to reshape our system

If you copy elements with variables over to another file they remain linked to their original variables which I would call intended and expect myself.

However, I would also like to be able to copy or move variables to another file. I thought it would work since you already are able to multi select them but there seems to be no copy or cut option yet.

See:

I have a screen with 5 buttons in it, all with variables. I was able to copy/paste the screen to another file and all of the variables carried over. When I copy/paste the screen within the same file and same page, all of the variables were cleared out. This might be a bug? This behavior makes no sense.

Yes exactly, while it may be considered a learning curve, many of us are setting this thing up and it really annoys we’re not able to move variables to another collection in order to split up or (re)group things.

Also not being able to batch copy and or bulk rename variables is a big bummer.

I understand this is a needed feature, but as a workaround, you can use plug-ins to export the JSON structure, change it, and import it back, while moving between collections is not implemented natively. There even are some web-based WYSWYG tools that will show a JSON file structured as tree view so you can move nodes arround.

I’d like this too.

i want to be able to copy and paste variables from file to another file, this will save alot of time

I’d love to be able to move variables to another collection. I’m several hours in and I’ve realised that I’ve created and mapped several dozen variables that should be in a separate collection which is a nightmare.

Love this new feature but being able to manage collections would be fantastic.

I need this as well.