Create one prototype across the pages in a file

this is a huge shortcoming for a prototyping tool. Please develop this

Being a long time Sketch user and switching to Figma, this is a big thing to has missing… Sketch has this, and it’s just a matter of adding groups within the drop down to select Frame. As a former Sketch user, it was very powerful to be able to organize sections of a prototype by page, and cross link them. And Sketch has the ability to add hotspots to a symbol, so when building components like menus, you can set up the menu once and reuse it everywhere. Please please please add this.

100% need this

@Figma_Team Can you please share an update when you expect this feature being implemented?

This feature would go a long way toward allowing me to more clearly organize my files while still maintaining the ability to maintain comprehensive prototypes.

@Figma_Support Having experience in customer support I get how responding to a thread like this could potentially be like opening a can of worms that you’re not ready to respond to. And to be fair, several people here have responded childishly and unprofessionally… though, I’d be lying if I said I don’t feel the same frustration that they’re expressing. But let’s be real. Acting that way or threatening violence–even if hypothetical–rarely has a productive effect on progress.

That said, @Figma_Support: you don’t need to have all the answers in order to provide transparency as a company. Beating a dead horse here, but, it’s pretty shady practice to keep people in the dark when an issue like this is so hotly discussed. Sometimes it’s appropriate to hold off on announcing updates for various reasons, I get that. But not providing an answer at all? Not really a good look… 😕 Maybe the support team is understaffed, or the acquisition by Adobe has caused a lot of uncertainty with issues both big and small, including this one.

Still.

Even a quick “we’re working on it” or “this isn’t on our devs’ task list at this time” or even a simple “hi yes hello we exist” would suffice. Right?

Or is this feature request board a place that’s taken seriously in the first place?

There is one way to link prototypes between pages in Figma without getting new tabs in your browser, and that is to hack it with the ‘Link’ button in the top toolbar. This feature creates a hyperlink to any text you want and links it to any page you want.

All you have to do is right click on the page you want the text to link (target) to and select ‘Copy link to page’:

then select the text you want to act as a link (source) and click the ‘Link’ button in the top menu bar:

If you don’t have text that you can use as the link, you could always create a blind button (ie assign the text colour to be the same as the BG colour). However, most forms of linking between pages do contain some form of text so it shouldn’t be too hard.

Note: this method auto creates as an underline but you can turn this off in your Type Settings panel.

Hope this helps.

+1 We also really need improved cross-page navigation possibilities for prototyping!
Like @Aaron_Wood already suggested:
Include sub dividing in the Navigate To dropdown and show pages to choose Frames from. The dropdown list neeeeeeds search because showing ALL the Frames of the selected page can lead to a massive amount of results to choose from.

+1 - New to Figma and very surprised this doesn’t exist yet. Still a lot better than XD…

+1 .

Thanks to those who have shared their hack, really helpful.