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Meghan_Rose1
Jun 22, 2023 9:19 PM UTC

Copy/Move variable groups into other collections

I have been playing around with creating variables but realized I would rather have groups in separate collections, but cannot move them.

I would like to be able to duplicate an entire collection so I don’t have to manually re-create values and can remove what I don’t need from that collection OR simply be able to move groups into other collections.

[The title of this post was edited from “LAUNCHED: Copy/Move variable groups into other collections” to “Copy/Move variable groups into other collections” by a moderator on 17-Jan-2026.]

176 replies

Jul 4, 2023 3:39 PM UTC

Yes, I’d appreciate moving and duplicating groups, collections and variables, to organize them.

Dan_Sweeney
New Member
Jul 4, 2023 3:47 PM UTC

Agress this would be super useful. I’m not sure how you copy/map a variable/group to a different collection that potentially has different modes to the original collection. But there’s surely a way!

Damien2
Jul 6, 2023 11:14 AM UTC

Also need this.

Vinicius_Custodio
Jul 6, 2023 6:23 PM UTC

we neeed this

Prameshwar_Kumar
Jul 7, 2023 11:50 AM UTC

By mistake i also added some of variable to different collection and didn’t fond option to move other collection which i have

Lucas_Orellanos
New Participant
Jul 10, 2023 5:50 PM UTC

Yes! This would be really helpful.
In my case, I realized that I needed to better organize my variables (using different collections) because the project has grown and the old variables were not related to the newer ones. So, I created a new collection and then found that I couldn’t move variables to the new collection.

UX-Niels
Jul 11, 2023 10:10 AM UTC

Should be a native feature in FIGMA.
But there is already a plugin for this:
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1256972111705530093/Export%2FImport-Variables

Jeff_Wain1
New Member
Jul 11, 2023 4:36 PM UTC

If variables are meant to replace Styles for the majority of design systems, then we should at least have parity with the Styles functionality. Drag and drop across collections, multiselect, cut and paste will all make organization and management much easier.

Pavel_Kiselev
Power Member
Jul 29, 2023 9:49 AM UTC

A little but very annoying issue with this one. You would not want break a link between your components and variables bound to their properties. Unfortunately if you did it wrong at first it is very hard to re-organize later. Ideally we need an ability to freely reorganize vars via UI and plug-in API.

Ilse1
Aug 2, 2023 2:41 PM UTC

Same issue. Would really appreciate it if this feature is created.