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Lishay
January 30, 2021

Give unique access to specific pages

  • January 30, 2021
  • 244 replies
  • 61282 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

Omkar_Chogale2
November 23, 2022

Though not a perfect solution for your request, we can share ONLY prototypes with people instead of the whole file - https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040531773-Share-files-and-prototypes

Nadia_Jamnik
New Member
November 29, 2022

This is SO needed!

Lucas_Hall
December 1, 2022

I’m a designer at Costco. Our project teams are having difficulty seeing the latest version (or final version). We are having to do stuff like this to help the situation, but it’s not enough. We surveyed our devs and many of them have reported confusion around being able to clearly identify which is the final or latest design.

12-1-22 - v4 (Latest Design)
----------------------------/
↪️ 9-6-22 - v3 - revised headers
↪️ 8-6-22 - v2 - Added snackbar
↪️ 8-4-22 - Brainstorm session and notes
↪️ 7-4-22 - v1 (initial draft)

We need to be able to hide pages. Something more like this…

12-1-22 - v4 (Latest Design)
----------------------------/
↪️ 9-6-22 - v3 - revised headers
↪️ 8-6-22 - v2 - Added snackbar
↪️ 7-4-22 - v1 (initial draft)

DillonS
New Member
December 1, 2022

1000% onboard. I’m at a huge company, and having the ability to set up components for auto updating decks. Brilliant functionality

lukeratc
December 6, 2022

+1 to this idea, would be really handy to set viewing permissions per layer

Alejandro_Orduz
December 8, 2022

Many things to get better,

  1. Sharing single pages with unique links
  2. Sharing single frames with unique links

Each one of the above, you can decide if the viewer can edit / download each element / or only watch/interact with the link without editing.

Abigail_Muir
December 12, 2022

This would be incredible! I came here to suggest the same thing. So needed for collaborating with various stakeholders but not having to duplicate files a thousand times.

Felix_Stim-Fogel
December 23, 2022

Adding another vote to this feature. It would be great to combine all aspects of a project in one project broken up by pages, allowing both the client and creators the ability to provide feedback without there being crossover between the two

Ryan_Hannebaum1
January 4, 2023

Yes, please. I came to request this exact thing.

Danielle_Hartig
January 4, 2023

I’m confused by the lack of an official response to this basic request.
Are yall merging with XD or something? Is that why this thread (which has been responded to every few days for the last year) is not being considered a priority? This is a basic workflow request.