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Lishay
January 30, 2021

Give unique access to specific pages

  • January 30, 2021
  • 244 replies
  • 61273 views

Hello 👋

First, I’m happy about the opportunity where I can make an impact on this amazing product.

My idea is pretty simple but can make a huge difference in the way we share files with stakeholders and colleagues. I suggest adding the ability to give different access (viewer/editor) for pages within a Figma file.

Because in most cases, we’re trying to include a whole project, feature, or function, whether small or big, in one Figma file - it becomes a real pain-point if the lowest level of grant permissions it’s the file itself instead of the pages within the file.

I’m sure a lot in this community can agree with me that many times you gave people access - it was relevant to certain areas of the file, and less to other areas.

  • I want to give content writers access to a specific page where they can edit and review content.
  • I want to give developers access to a specific page where they can play with responsive layers and explore edge-cases.
  • I want to leave experiments (Some would call it a playground, sandbox 😃) and previous versions to myself, to avoid background noises from the rest

The current situation is that I give everyone viewers access, each one of them looking for his relevant place among the information load and I avoid giving an editor access to prevent touching what they should not touch by mistake 🙄

What do you think about it?
Of course, feel free to vote if you agree with the idea.

244 replies

Caroline1
March 3, 2021
  1. Problem: nowhere for independent ideation

  2. As a file owner, it would be ideal to have the option to a hide or make a page private from other Users so that you can still work with the styles in the same file. I find that I want to explore different design concepts in an area that no other team mates can see.

  3. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?

YingMing
March 4, 2021

I have the same problem. Especially if you’re not ready to share a file with a colleague. I could only create a page and put it in the last place, finally named “🪦”. 🤣

Caroline1
March 4, 2021

Thanks for sharing @YingMing !!!

Whitney
March 19, 2021

This would be so helpful! I end up creating dupe files, one for WIP and one to share with developers and have to copy things back and forth. It gets very confusing.

Caroline1
April 8, 2021

@figma correct me if I’m wrong but this is fixed with the new Drafts area coming April 21!! Woohooo!!

Caroline1
April 8, 2021

Right!? So much double handling. I think they’re introducing something for this soon in Drafts area. Such good news !!

Miriam1
April 23, 2021

Both working in-house and contract, it would be very useful if pages had a functionality to show/hide. Pages being worked on shouldn’t be shown outside of ‘edit’ access until designs are ready for review or signed off.

People with ‘view only’ access can see all of the work in the project. With deadlines being tight in my experience, design can sometimes not be given the time it needs to work through the process properly. When management teams or clients can view ‘work in progress’, they can initiate building the UI without design completing and achieving sign off. Causing issues with the final outcome and eventually leading to dev/design rework.

Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this? Would anyone else find this helpful?

April 29, 2021

Allow a project owner to set visibility for each pages of a figma file.
A page could “Viewable by”:
Everyone
Editors only
Project Owner only

Because as soon as a file is shared with the client for feedback, there are always these strange moments when you are in a designing/working phase, and you see the client log in onto the file. This can make designer not feel at ease to work as they should. A bit like when your know you have a camera on in a meeting. By fear of being watched by the client, or even that the client feels that they work too fast, and the task was actually “too easy for what they were charged”

open to discussion

wgo
Active Member
May 10, 2021

Yes please! This would be so helpful. I have no idea, how all these fellow designers manage to share certain areas of a project with developers and clients while hiding unfinished work. Right now I have all my pages marked with emojis but this always requires explanation.

The ability to make certain pages public and keep others private would be so handy! Please @figma, take this into consideration.

Declan_Behan
May 19, 2021

My team is looking to use Figma to capture client feedback instead of manually exporting files to upload into InVision. Our issue is that we would like to only share certain pages within a project with the client, so they can only review finished screens and not see work in progress.

Our only solution to do this would be to duplicate the project with just the pages for client and share this instead of the working project, but this creates a double up and more effort translating feedback back to the working project.

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated 😀