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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

Crystal7
November 22, 2024

I agree! How is this not a feature yet?

Evelyn5
December 5, 2024

+1 absolutely, we need more control

Matic_Leban
December 12, 2024

The lack of this feature is causing us a lot of problems, having duplicates, having to copy everything back and forth, not being able to copy comments, having double the amount of files. People have issues with this for 4 years already.
And instead, we get a floating-looking toolbar on the bottom, and so on… What a progress.

Shelby Johnson
New Member
January 24, 2025

This issue has become a significant challenge for my company as we collaborate with both developers and project managers. While developers need access to specific pages, project managers should not view other parts of the file.

Why hasn’t this been addressed yet?! Adding the ability to share specific pages would solve this problem. As a result of this limitation, we are now forced to use another tool (Zeplin😒), which completely undermines the primary reason we migrated to Figma—a unified tool for all our design and collaboration needs.

Alexia_L_Adair
New Member
January 28, 2025

+1

Maria_C_Velez
New Member
January 31, 2025

+1 I would like to have this feature available so that I can hide pages with components that are not ready to be shared

Jesse_Wallace
New Participant
February 13, 2025

It’s absolutely absurd that after 4 years this still hasn’t been solved. For a collaboration rich software, you guys truly have ignored the needs of users in this aspect for so long. 

Add another option in the right click menu that says “Only show for editors”.

Done.

 

You’ve been thinking about this for 4 years? If so, thats crazy. If not, you are ignoring core features your user base needs.

Ognjen_Odobasic1
New Participant
February 19, 2025

+1… this will help workflow with clients and we will optimise number of project files

Cammy8
February 27, 2025

+1.. it will help me at my work because my CEO (not a designer) has suddenly decided that he want to create and edit designs and my design in figma. So i would love to hide some pages where he cannot destroy my layouts :) 

Cammy8
February 28, 2025

Hi! This is a small work around, but not private, but makes it harder to find the page. If you go to https://emojipedia.org/tag-space - copy the tag space which is empty / invisible.

Create a new page and then it would be a bit harder to find as a page in figma. The page name will be invisble. you can then drag the new page to the bottom. which makes it a bit harder to find if you have many pages. i was inspired by itsgigantic (https://www.itsgigantic.com/insights/create-hidden-pages-in-figma-a-quick-trick-for-organizing-notes-and-archived-content), but the command they recommend only makes a separator in figma.