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Zoltan_Szalay
September 22, 2022

Expose/hide nested instances -> at component property level

  • September 22, 2022
  • 381 replies
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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.

381 replies

Apolline
Active Member
June 25, 2026

Is it possible to share when this feature is planned for ? Its 3 years old and the 3rd most popular Suggest a feature thread.

 

Kerry_Johnson
Active Member
June 29, 2026

I was going to vent a bit but I deleted it after I checked by most voted suggestions, and well, quite a few of them were done!  I think it’s just easy to get worked up on these ones because they seem low hanging and sitting for multiple years.  Figma is so close to being perfect and fully workable with the closing gap between design and code, that these little gaps just kills us and sticks out more and more as the two worlds cinch up.  Here’s to hoping we see this resolved within the next year!

Jasmine Friedrich
New Participant
July 14, 2026

+1 for this!

Dave40
New Member
July 15, 2026

+1 

Felicia Hjarpe
New Member
July 27, 2026

+1

Justin0ooo
New Member
August 19, 2026

+1

Coming from Sketch, that has this feature for ages already, it’s the one ‘small’ feature in Figma I really miss for design systems. 

Ben_Smeets
Active Member
August 21, 2026

+100, Come on Figma, at least an update on why it is taking so long would be nice? It’s looking like any other “half half” feature implementation like we have so many currently…
@djv 

Lasse Mahler
New Member
September 2, 2026

+1 This would be an extremly powerful feature. Please make it happen. 🙌🏼

Lasse Mahler
New Member
September 2, 2026

+1 This would be an extremly powerful tool expansion. We really need this one. Reconsider the priority

nikita.denisov
New Member
September 2, 2026

+1, almost 4 years c’mon