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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

Nicola_Mascotto
August 13, 2023

It could be really beneficial in particular for small projects in which the freelancer is in direct contact with their customers and to co-design the project together. Thumbs up for this idea.

Will_C
August 16, 2023

C’mon Figma, the people have spoken!

BLACKBOX_GRAFX
August 21, 2023

Is there a way to share a link with a client that only gives them viewing access to a specific page as supposed to being able to view the entire project?

Stefan_Brigola
August 29, 2023

Yes please!!! It´s an issue since two and a half years!

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
September 8, 2023

Hi @BLACKBOX_GRAFX ,
Not at this moment but we will pass along to our team for consideration! Others in the community have requested something similar. Feel free to vote up so we can gauge the overall interest in the community here: Give unique access to specific pages

(Tips: The best workaround right now will be to separate out the information you want to share to a separate file and only share that.)

Do_Good_Design_Co
September 8, 2023

This would be so helpful. It’s really frustrating to have clients peeking at work that isn’t ready for them.

Lishay
LishayAuthor
September 9, 2023

I have to say I had hopes that Figma would take steps to improve this long time ago 😑

Marc_Viladrich
September 15, 2023

YES, this would make getting feedback from clients so much easier! Especially given there is no real workaround right now.

If you could at least copy comments from one file to another, then you could duplicate your file, remove all the pages you want to hide, receive feedback on the duplicated file, copy the client’s comments over to the original Figma file and work on from there.

But not even this seems to possible, so giving unique access to specific pages would make a huge difference! 🥹

September 20, 2023

I needed this today so badly! Had no idea that when I share page with ‘view only’ it shares all pages .

Anytime
September 29, 2023

This would be a very helpful feature. I would prevent making extra project files just to share a specific part of the project with the client.