With the new update, we have a great new feature, but unfortunately, it’s not usable with our component structure.
Exposing all props of a nested instance also exposes props that we don’t want in the context of the consuming component.
What if we could also select which properties to expose? This would lead to a cleaner sidebar with only valid props.
I think I understand the problem why they still don’t make it now:
Because they are nested instance, they can always be swapped. So if Figma had the ability to deselect unwanted nested properties from the original parent instance, then what would happen to the swapped nested instance. Would they also be configured like the original, or have full set of its properties?
Or if there were a feature to lock the instance from being swapped, this would make more sense.
Even if it prevented instance swaps, it could still solve a lot of cases, especially if variant-based swaps were still allowed.
It could also work by whitelisting property names to expose (as opposed to blacklisting properties to hide) - then any swapped component that has those same property names would expose them. But I suppose it wouldn’t be as clean as hiding/exposing based on property ID.
Running into problem right now, Need This!!
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