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Nathan_Curtis
Nathan_Curtis
posted in Suggest a Feature
Best way to enable extensive user configuration of a plugin command

HI all. This week, I launched a UI-less plugin command that creates component specifications including Anatomy, Layout and spacing, and Props. User requests (such as “don’t add styles to my file”) suggest that user-controlled configuration would be valued. What is the best way to enable configuration without Parameters (annoying to click through every time) or a Figma UI? My thought: publish a “Configuration” frame with a stack of properties, a default value, and other values they can choose from in a community file. Users would then place that frame into their local file, edit the config, and the plugin would findOne and read that frame as it runs each time. Is there a better way?

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Nathan_Curtis
1 year ago
Nidhin_Kuttikkattu_Rajeevan
Nidhin_Kuttikkattu_Rajeevan
posted in Suggest a Feature
How can I traverse reverse in figma plugin

In my figma plugin, I did, let targetNode = figma.currentPage.findAll((node) => node.name === data.target); I can access a node in one of the layer. I am trying to hide everything and from this node, by traversing to root, to set visibility. But I get error to access parent in loop. Basically trying to do below in a loop console.log(“current page”,figma.root.name) let node = targetNode[0] node.visible=true let nodep = node.parent if(nodep?.type ==“FRAME”) nodep.visible=true let nodepp = nodep?.parent if(nodepp?.type ==“FRAME”) nodepp.visible=true

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Nidhin_Kuttikkattu_Rajeevan
1 year ago
tank666
tank666Active Member
posted in Suggest a Feature
Add a text range selection event for Text Review plugins

Text review plugins can only return suggestions while entering text edit mode and on the PropertyChange event type. But what if we add a text range selection event and return suggestions for that range? This would make plugins even more powerful. For example: If the user enters text edit mode and all text is selected (0, text.length) or nothing is selected (start === end), the plugin will return suggestions for the entire length of the text. If the user is already in text edit mode and selects a range of text, return suggestions for that range only. That is, every time the user selects a range of text, the event fires specifically for that range.

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tank666
1 year ago
tank666
tank666Active Member
posted in Suggest a Feature
Return more than 3 suggestions for plugins with Text Review capability

Currently, text review plugins can only return 3 suggestions, no matter how many elements are in the array. This limit is not mentioned in the Plugin API documentation. It would be great if the limit on the number of suggestions could be increased.

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tank666
1 year ago
Julien10
Julien10
posted in Suggest a Feature
Post comment in audio format

Being able to add/post comments as a voice note. (could be transcripted). The design would be the same as now but with the option to record a voice note instead of having to type the text.

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Julien10
1 year ago
dotling
dotling
posted in Suggest a Feature
Unify received properties for strokes

Hey guys, i am new here and want to say first: I love the way we can implement plugins to figma, this is awesome, great work! I noticed the following: if I want to check a node to see whether it contains a stroke, I have to query different properties, depending on whether I have a node of type GROUP or FRAME. For example, if i want to check the node type GROUP for strokes, i am fine with if(node.strokes), because it is undefined if not set. If i check the type FRAME, i have to use if(node.strokes.length), because it is empty but not undefined. Maybe I’m missing a property that is unique, but it seems to me that this is some kind of a bug?

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tank666
1 year ago
Shane_Martin
Shane_Martin
posted in Suggest a Feature
Allow asset search to default to all libraries

Instead of defaulting to Local Library when searching for an asset, it would be nice to be able to switch the default library to search. I find myself clicking “Search all libraries“ 95% of the time.

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Shane_Martin
1 year ago
Jeremy_T
Jeremy_T
posted in Suggest a Feature
Request: Option for hide/show guides

Hi all! I hope you’re having a nice week. Just a small request: I would find a separate hide/show guides option in the View menu very helpful, separate from hide/show rulers. There any many times where I don’t want to see the many guides on a document but still find value in the rulers. That’s all. 🙂 Thank you! Jeremy

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Jeremy_T
1 year ago
Abdur_Rahman_Mohideen
Abdur_Rahman_Mohideen
posted in Suggest a Feature
Minimize plugin/s as small tabs

I find it difficult that I have right click and select different plugins at different times which is time consuming. However, I was wondering if there was a way to minimize the plugins we use to small tabs on the top, below the top nav bar so that it’ll be a matter of one click to open the desired plugin we use for the project. Hope you guys understood. Thanks! 😀

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Abdur_Rahman_Mohideen
1 year ago
Michael_Yagudaev
Michael_Yagudaev
posted in Suggest a Feature
Support for WebCodecs API

We are building a plugin that allows users to render figma prototypes as videos. To support that we wanted to use WebCodecs API (Video processing with WebCodecs - Chrome Developers) which is already implemented in chrome. It works in most modern browsers, but to our surprise trying to access window.VideoEncoder results in undefined exception. It is however possible to access it if you specify a null-origin frame for your iFrame and serve it from our own servers. We are wondering why that is? Is there a security concern? Is it just set to undefined because it hasn’t been whitelisted as an approved browser API yet? It is a really powerful API that opens a lot of doors to creating really interesting things with Figma.

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Michael_Yagudaev
1 year ago
polar_slon
polar_slon
posted in Suggest a Feature
Add some API that works as native "Go to main component" menu item

Hi everyone. I have a custom implementation and it does the thing. function goToNode(pageId: string, nodeId: string) { if (!pageId || !pageName || !nodeId) { return; } const page = figma.getNodeById(pageId) as PageNode; if (!page) { // Some error handking. } const node = figma.getNodeById(nodeId) as SceneNode; if (node) { figma.currentPage = page; page.selection = [node]; figma.viewport.scrollAndZoomIntoView([node]); } } But recently I’ve discovered that this implementation is useless in case of remote components. First of all it’s impossible to acquire the page since Figma API doesn’t expose full tree of remote componens (component is hanging in a vacuum with undefined parent property). Moreover figma.viewport.scrollAndZoomIntoView() call doesn’t work as expected. It scrolls to the middle of the nowhere on the current page in the current project. Is there any workaround to make a navigation to a remote component (like native “Go to main component

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Gleb
1 year ago
Jovi_Verheyen
Jovi_Verheyen
posted in Suggest a Feature
Load library from plugin

It would be very cool if we could load a set of libraries like design systems, illustrations, icons, etc via the plugin. Now every time we start a new project, we have to link those libraries manually via the assets panel.

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Jovi_Verheyen
2 years ago
Mai1
Mai1
posted in Suggest a Feature
Scrolling Fonts

I know it’s frustrating that Figma doesn’t preview fonts or have a search icon, but it’d be great if they had a scroll bar at least. I know I can just type the first letter of the font to jump, but a scroll bar would be nice.

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Mai1
2 years ago
Afiq
Afiq
posted in Suggest a Feature
[Nested instances] Add separator between nested instances' parent group

Hi Figma. First of all, thank you so much for introducing nested instances feature! It’s a very good feature for a team that handle design systems. It gives our consumer a clear clarification what they can do with components without the need to dig deep into the layers of the component. There’s one thing I think it can help this feature to be a lil bit clearer on the right panel. It would be best if Figma can add a separator between each of the parent group and have an indentation for the children nested instances. With this, it’s much easier to identify the grouping, especially on complicated components with many nested instances. Please refer to the image attached.

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Afiq
2 years ago
MattFannin
MattFannin
posted in Suggest a Feature
A way to see total component & variant count for a file

It’d be helpful to be able to see a breakdown / total of exactly how many components, variants, and styles (of each type) are in the file — which would help with performance optimisation and library publishing. At the moment there is a feature when selecting a variant set which shows the total for that set: But to get the total for the file I have to count all of these by hand. Total publishable ‘items’ are also seen in the menu when publishing to a team, but it doesn’t offer a breakdown by component, variant and style etc. It could also be a neat idea to be able to break this down by the categories the components are organised into so you can see where the ‘largest’ components are in your file that could be optimised, like in this table I put together by hand when trying to work this out for myself 🙂: For context, I just finished work on a large community component library with hundreds of components and thousands of variants (but I had to total these up manually). In tests,

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MattFannin
2 years ago
Corey_Korhan
Corey_Korhan
posted in Suggest a Feature
Ability to undo to previous location when moving comments

I do accidentally move around comments by mistake. And whenever I cmd-z I accidentally undo the designs rather than comment move.

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Corey_Korhan
2 years ago
Nicole_Sylianteng
Nicole_Sylianteng
posted in Suggest a Feature
Show previous tab after closing current tab

When I’m going back and forth between prototype view and figma file, it’s annoying that closing the prototype brings me to a tab on the right instead of the figma file which is on the left. I always need to navigate back to my figma file. Seems like a simple fix with exponential benefits.

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Nicole_Sylianteng
2 years ago
Michael_Riddering
Michael_Riddering
posted in Suggest a Feature
Feature request: "Variant swap" within component properties

Right now if I use a subcomponent I can only add an “instance swap” which doesn’t help me a lot of the times. For instance, if I embed a toggle component with an on/off variant there is no way for me to control that toggle switch at the parent level. More info 👇typefully.com

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Michael_Riddering
2 years ago
Thomas_Belhacene
Thomas_Belhacene
posted in Suggest a Feature
Linking gradient colors to Styles colors

If a user updates a color in their file styles, it will not update gradients, as they currently can only use a Hex code. Bringing this back up https://forum.figma.com/t/gradient-color-picker-should-include-a-list-view-for-colors/11184

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Thomas_Belhacene
2 years ago
Kalle
Kalle
posted in Suggest a Feature
Add Eraser

Hey, first off — I LOVE this feature! 🔥 💯 🔥 Secondly, Im trying FigJam out on an iPad with the pen and would really need a eraser tool to be able to quickly remove scribbles. Preferably enabled with a modifier key. My thinking is; Have the pen selected Press modifier key (maybe alt) to activate eraser Release modifier key and go back to pen tool

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Jeremy23
2 years ago
owilliams
owilliams
posted in Suggest a Feature
Allow FigJam code block to be used in Figma files

I like to leave CSS snippets in my design files for developers to reference. The code block in FigJam works really well but it’s not possible to use it in Figma design files which I find very annoying.

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owilliams
2 years ago
Richard_Sison
Richard_Sison
posted in Suggest a Feature
Figma Mirror: Option to preview at 100% regardless of frame size

Whenever I’m previewing a specific component on Figma Mirror (for example if I’m experimenting with button interactions or states of a components), the component’s preview is always set to fill the width of my browser window and this is never the most helpful option. I want to be able to set it at 100% so I can preview my designs at their intended size. What happens (Assuming I’m previewing the interactions of a button): I open Figma Mirror on my secondary screen I select an instance of a button The button appears in Figma Mirror and fills the browser window Workaround The best workaround is for me to always have a frame I can drag a component into for previewing but sometimes this just isn’t ideal Proposed solution Outcome: Just having the ability to set the preview size to 100% in Mirror (regardless of the frame’s size) Whether this is a Figma Mirror control or within Figma’s settings, I’m not too opinionated on but having a preview scale all the time is rarely what I want. It’s

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Richard_Sison
2 years ago
Maksym_Mokhnatskyi
Maksym_Mokhnatskyi
posted in Suggest a Feature
Comments saving

Sometimes I got tons of comments daily in my files. Would be great to have a possibility to save some of comments for later. Right now if I just read a comment and want to get back to it later Im saving comments link in trello, that very frustrating.

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Maksym_Mokhnatskyi
2 years ago
Victor_Morales
Victor_Morales
posted in Suggest a Feature
I would like manage separately the stroke color and position (outside/inside/center)

Right now this is only possible by creating new frames for every color/stroke position, could be great to add this feature update to the amazing recently launched individual strokes.

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Victor_Morales
2 years ago
Rob7
Rob7
posted in Suggest a Feature
Please introduce long-press functionality for key/gamepad interactions!

I create prototypes for TV using a Flirc device to enable us to test with a remote control that is mapped to keyboard keys using your key/gamepad option in the interaction details panel. The ability to long-press a key on the remote is a key interaction for us and the addition of a drop-down menu to enable the long-press of certain keys (amongst other options) would be greatly appreciated! I have created a mock-up of one way that this could work… but would welcome any way to achieve what I have described above!

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Rob7
2 years ago
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