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Lishay
January 30, 2021

Give unique access to specific pages

  • January 30, 2021
  • 244 replies
  • 61291 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

swsjosh
March 7, 2024

How has this feature been on the board for years? This feels like an easy win to make designers happy. I would like to share my designs in a few ways: direct link to a frame (or selected frames), Link to specific pages, Link to Prototype, or link to Dev Prototype.

Lucas_Hall
March 7, 2024

Hi @swsjosh, maybe in Figma’s eyes, perhaps they feel dev mode solves the problem because when you mark items as ready for dev on a page, then that page highlights on the left and all the other pages are collapsed under an accordion.

You can right click on any page on the left and copy a direct link to that page.
You can right click on frames in in the layers pane on the left to copy a link.
You can right click on most objects in the layers pane on the left to copy a link.

BUT what you can’t do is lock down those pages that are collapsed under the accordion. That’s where my trouble is. I have old stuff in their that I don’t want developers getting into… They easily expand and find their way in anyway. This lack of ability to lock that stuff off I think is the heart and sole of this feature request.

swsjosh
March 8, 2024

I think that sharing a page/frame/object and just having it zoom is way different than just sharing the specific design elements you want feedback on. So, I agree, it would be awesome to see these per-frame or per-page sharing options for a better pipeline in the future. I thought I saw the share frame feature in previous requests but now its gone in a newer update, so that’s strange to me.

I guess I will make sure to copy/paste designs into another software to share with clients for now. Not a fan of having clients hover on designs while I’m working on them.

James_Walsh
New Participant
March 11, 2024

Fully agree with this - transparency should be at the discretion of the designer - not a free for all.

I want to let our clients see only the work that is ready, and keep prying eyes out of my work in progress pages and components.

Such an easy win that just needs to be made already. Dev mode is not a solve for this, my clients are not developers.

March 13, 2024

Please make this happen 🥺

Christopher_Parsow
March 15, 2024

I have followed this subject/topic for years.

I dont know if it’s what everybody needs - but I use the plugin “Index Page”, then I choose which frames that should be included, and then send the “index page” frame to customers, in that way they can only see the frames/pages I picked (I hope so 😅)

Christine_Stapelmann
March 22, 2024

+1 I recently switched to Figma from XD and this is the first thing I encountered that actually frustrates me. Sharing links of certain flows is such a useful feature in XD, can’t believe it’s not a thing in Figma…wtf. I don’t want my whole work file with my component screens and my unfinished pages to be shared. CERTAINLY not with clients.

April 10, 2024

I am so surprised that it still doesn’t exist.

May 9, 2024

Hi there!

My suggestion is for adding a feature that allows users to Show or Hide Pages in the Pages panel located on the right side of the screen. This feature would be very useful for hiding pages that we don’t need or want to see, without having to delete the content on those pages.

I have created a rough mockup below of how this feature could work. Perhaps a hidden icon could be added at the bottom of pages, and when clicked, all of the pages that the user marked to hide will show again.

I believe this feature would greatly enhance the functionality of Pages in Figma.

jimmykl
New Participant
May 22, 2024

Can’t say any more than has already been said – here’s hoping 2024 is the year for this! 🙏🤞