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Custom team templates

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February 17, 2021
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Consider the following scenario:

My team needs to have a reusable template with a predefined layer structure so we don’t have to recreate the same file structure over and over and to keep our files consistent enough that designers, PMs and engineers know what to expect of our files regardless of the designer that worked on it.
We currently use a file the team manually duplicates by doing right click>duplicate and then move to the project they will be working on, but instead of this, we would prefer to just click on create new file and select a template from the dialog that figma provides. The problem we have is that you need to publish that file to the entire Figma community to be able to do this and the security policy of our company doesn’t allow this.

Should templates be public to the community by default? Can’t we just create a new template and make it available to our internal team only?

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Andre_Barros

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This would be a amazing way to make our files consistent across our organisation! Can you pleaseeee make it a reality? 🥺

Gudbjorg

We need this feature too! Please add Figma.

Emmanuel8

Hello, was this feature added?

Y

Yi_Sung

I figured out a work around by duplicating a template file, without manually forgetting to duplicate and accidentally working in them.
You can duplicate a file and start a new file from inside a web browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, etc…).

Do this:

Step 1 - Make the duplication link
1 - Copy the link of the file you will want to use as a template and update it to add “/duplicate” after the filename
EXAMPLE: I COPIED THIS link from Figma- https://www.figma.com/file/3fY9XMu6XfWZOgPrMlFNMx/FILENAME-OF-EXAMPLE-FILE**TEMPLATE?type=design&t=wmxDp0krslea7ffi-6
2. Edit the link so that everything after the filename gets chopped off (starting with the “?type=”) and then replaced with “/duplicate”
EXAMPLE: https://www.figma.com/file/3fY9XMu6XfWZOgPrMlFNMx/FILENAME-OF-EXAMPLE-FILE**TEMPLATE/duplicate
3. Try the edited link in the browser. It should make a duplicate copy within that Figma folder. Once good, anytime this link is used in the browser it will duplicate the file… so this link is reusable!
4. Share the link with the team

Step 2 - Using the link
1 - copy and paste your file link into your browser of choice
EXAMPLE: https://www.figma.com/file/3fY9XMu6XfWZOgPrMlFNMx/FILENAME-OF-FILE**TEMPLATE/duplicate
2 - Rename the new opened file to one of your choosing
3 - Move your new file from Team Ops to where you want it to live
Outcome: This ensures the template file does not get accidentally edited, and allows the team to quickly start new Figma Design Files:D

Jonny1

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Any news on something like this without the hacky workarounds? My team have a predefined set of page structures and even starter elements that I would love to make available via some kind of Team Templates etc.

Please let it happen, as its a pain manually doing all of this.

Jeremiah_Simpson

We really need this as well. @Figma_Moderation could you share status on when this might happen?

Avi_Eisenberger

Our design team has a standard file structure and we’d love to set a template (or two) globally that can be used for every new file.

Romain_Gle1

Same here,

It’s a real pain to have a Template project with a template file that we need to duplicate and move to to the right project. If we had the possibility to select a template when clicking on the “new file” button it would save much time.