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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

Christian_Klose
New Participant
July 20, 2023

+1

This feature is really a must-have! I try to workaround by adding Stop-Emojis in the property name, so that users of the design system won’t change the nested property. Much better it would be, if we could hide unwanted properties in the parent component.

Tim_van_de_Velde1
July 27, 2023

+1 must have for atom > molecule > organism based component nesting

New Participant
August 17, 2023

+1 - such a mess without this

Sorin_Cadar1
August 22, 2023

The need for this is such a no brainer.

Alexandre_Navarro_Caldeira
August 28, 2023

So many upvotes and comments and still not a hint of solving this 😦
It’s a must-have! We use slots and master components a lot and this heavily affects usage of our components.

Francis_Provencher_Leduc
August 29, 2023

Any update on this ?

Riley
August 31, 2023

Please Figma, just copy paste and ship this please. Zoltan already did the work for you 🙏

Patrick-Plaggenborg
Active Member
September 4, 2023

Love that properties from nested components are available.

Unfortunately when designing object oriented components it becomes a huge pain to see many unnecessary properties that should remain untouched. Also creates clutter.

Curious what the Figma team thinks the best solution is.

I guess what we need is a setting for each property of a component to allow it to be listed or not in parent components.

But maybe there are better ways. I trust them to come up with something brilliant.

Sjur_Gronningsaeter
New Member
September 7, 2023

+1, we need this 🙏

Alx
September 12, 2023

Honestly, cant wait to have this feature, this is such a drawback for a big design system!


Look at this beautiful variant, the only thing is the size that has repeated from the exposed nested variants 3 times.