Expose/hide nested instances -> at component property level

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September 22, 2022
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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.

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KennLucas

Users after more than two years desperately needing this: 🤷🏼‍♂️

Figma: 🦗🦗🦗

Katelyn_Barth

New Member

Yes please! I often make based components that I reuse in other instances, and I don’t always want the properties for that base component to show up in nested instances. This would make it less confusing to use, and clean up the sidebar.

Che_de_Bruin

New Member

+1. With complex system, it would be great the limit the number of props exposed on these components, especially nested instances.

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r_sh

Active Member

+1. We need to be able to limit which nested instance properties show on the main instance level. It gets very confusing for complex components.

Lea.P

New Participant

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For a complex, yet easy-to-use design system, this feature is not an option but a basic requirement.
It must be possible to define at the parent level which individual properties of a nested instance should be displayed or not.

Figma, please implement this as soon as possible, it's really super important, especially for more complex, nested components.
Thanks a lot!

Mark79

New Member

This is insane that this has not been done yet. This is an area that Sketch mops the floor with Figma and is the clear winner, the fact that Figma can’t see the issue is incredibly concerning. It makes it incredibly hard to build a set of rich components that you had over to downstream users and they have to make sense out of properties that they should not care about.