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Chassy
Chassy
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Lock a layer without locking its children

I’d really like to be able to lock a layer, but continue to work on its child layers. This would be particularly useful when working within a layer within an auto-layout.

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jamiegraydesign
jamiegraydesign
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Prototype Sidebar Order?

How is this ordered? is it sorted by created date? because if so, that sucks. If you wanna reorder then you gotta delete everything and re-create it in the proper order. lol. Please let us drag to rearrange or sort by some rational parameter such as alphabetical.

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atenyun
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Show/ hide all rules in the page

Currently I use Ctrl + \ in windows to show/ hide UI in Figma. It would be practical if it was possible to show/ hide just rules in a page || all pages.

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tank666
xMOx
xMOxActive Member
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Would like to have the option to have Vote Settings options

Hi Guys! so I do some game activities for our Company and I’m using the Figjam Vote feature to keep track of which team has gained the most points by stamping their tables. Since I can’t see the live updates I can’t know who is in the lead and I have to end the vote but I can’t until they are done the game. So most of the time the screen is just blank. I also don’t have the option to resume voting so if I ended the Voting session and say I we add a couple of new ideas then we can’t resume and have the poll continue counting and we now need to create a separate vote session. It will be nice if the Vote settings are flexible if I want to turn ON or OFF the visibility on a session. We also do use it for work when we brainstorm ideas we want to monitor which idea has the most votes to move it up to a different section. Anyhow having Vote Settings is very useful for us when planning our activities.

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ksn
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Yeonhee_Lee
Yeonhee_Lee
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API that provides the metadata of enabled libraries of a given file

My plugin needs to identify all libraries enabled for the current file. Currently, there is no Plugin API endpoint that provides this information. I The Figma REST API can be used to identify libraries of the styles used in the file. However, this method has a couple of limitations: It is not possible to identify enabled libraries if none of their styles are currently in use in the file. Even if the API client has identified enabled libraries using the Figma REST API, they will not be able to detect changes to their enabled state. In other words, if the state of a library is changed to “disabled” in Figma’s UI, the API client will not be notified of this change. A new Plugin API endpoint that lets clients know the metadata (file key, name, etc) of the libraries currently enabled for a given file would be very useful to expand Figma features to be more powerful. Thank you.

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Ryan_Glassett
Bruno_Luiz_Silva_de_Faria
Bruno_Luiz_Silva_de_Faria
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Add a notification in VS CODE, when Status DEV Ready is ON

I feel it is missing a visual and digital notification, when we set a section DEV READY. The digital, could be an e-mail, to the participants. And the visual could be a green color on the “icon”, instead of blue, so we can identify it faster.

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Jiri_Prokop
Jiri_Prokop
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Custom HTTP headers in `fetch` in plugins

Hello, I’m creating an internal Figma Plugin and I noticed that your fetch function is custom one and that not all HTTP headers are exposed by it. In fact, only content-length and content-type seems to be available. My plugin would need to read additional information from the header since I’m using binary data (image) in the response and I don’t want to implement multipart form parsing just to add these small data (HTTP header would be very practical for it). Is there any solution? For now I’m using a workaround to pass that data in content-type but as you can imagine, that’s not ideal 🙂 Thank you for any help. Jiri

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Roman_Gorshkov
Roman_Gorshkov
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Return "Go to Main Component" in "Object" Menu in Mac Desktop and add "Clip content"

Hi. I used to use MacOS native keyboard shortcuts to create a shortcut for the function “Go to Main Component”. Native MacOS shortcuts use app upper context menus (where apple icon). You can go to Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts and set any key for an any menu line. Now, there is no “Go to Main Component” in “Object → Main Components” and my shortcut isn’t working. It’s so painful to use the mouse every time to click a special icon. I use the keyboard shortcut “Go to Main Component” many times during the day. Also, there is a same story with “Clip Content”. There isn’t same menu line in Object menu and I can’t create a keyboard shortcut. It’s very frequent function. Please, fix it.

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Igor44
str1ve
str1ve
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Figma.on event

Hello. Recently I worked with plugin that can work only in “export” page. It was easy to add listener on page change, but rename page doesn’t trigger any event. Because of it user after rename should re-open plugin or change page and get back to export. Not really cool UX… I think it will be better to trigger currentpagechange.

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Courty_Stanton
Courty_Stanton
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Styles in FigJam

Hey there! I’d love to be able to quickly copy & paste styles for arrows and shapes as I work in Figjam. In Figma, I’m able to hit option+cmd+c to copy all of the style attributes of one object and “paste” to apply them automatically to another object. This would save me a lot of time in that I wouldn’t have to manually repeat applying styles like dashed lines or colors as I work out flow charts. That’s all. Thanks!

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Phil_Van_Tol1
John69
John69
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FigJam Billing/Notification

I wonder if anyone at Figma has thought about putting an alert or notification into the Figma UI when files are opened/edited in teams. I’m new to Figma and I didn’t realize that there was a charge for using FigJam/Teams there was no notification of this until I got an email with a monthly charge of $5. Maybe the editor/account owner should get a notification with a yes or no question. Something the Figma Team should consider.

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Ramish_Aziz
Ramish_Aziz
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Hands Raised feature for Figjam

Would be cool that Figjam have a “hands raised” function, similarly on the Microsoft Teams call, when having to say something in a team workshop

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ksn
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Shawn_Kelly
Shawn_Kelly
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Export treating Frames as Folders

A Figma Library might consist of a “Page” with several “Frames” that each contain several “Components”. Problem: Exporting all of the components in this Library requires exporting each frame separately and manually organizing them into folders afterward. Solution: It would be great if Figma had a “Treat Frames as Folders” export option that so every frame would be exported as a folder and the contents within each frame would be exported as files. This could all be done with a single click instead of needing a separate export operation for each frame on the page. (This is effectively happening in the “Assets” panel already, it’s just not available when exporting.) Taking this a step further, an “Include nested frames” option could allow provide the ability to create hierarchy of folders to be created on export based on frames within frames.

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Jenni_Merrifield
Jenni_MerrifieldNew Member
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Variable Import/Export

I love the new variables feature but have hit a snag I’d love to see resolved. As I’m the only UX practitioner at my company, we only have the professional plan which means we can’t use branching. Instead, we have developed a system where we initial design in a “WIP” file, which is reviewed and iterated on until approved; at this point, we copy things over to a “Live” file. While working through that with some variables now in use, I discovered that there’s no way to copy variables between files. I can’t just use variables stored in a library because I need to get the variables from our WIP Library project into the Live Library product and, by their very nature, they can’t refer to the same library of variables (changes made to a variable value for the WIP library shouldn’t be automatically updated in the LIVE library). It would be helpful if one could either export and import variables by collection or individually. Or even if one could select one or more variables to copy and then pa

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w_karen
w_karenNew Participant
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Enhancement to asset export and management

problem 1: in our current hand off design to dev workflow, we run into challenges of files with long list of images and icons but the developer needs to click on every single icon/image to download it all. proposed solution: would be nice to have a one click button to download everything that’s in the export panel as a folder or compressed file for developers problem 2: another problem is that, when a image is used, but not manually marked as exportable, it will not show up in the assets list for developers to download, which causes project time loss and unnecessary hyper-care post design hand off. proposed solution: automatically consider all icons and images as exportable assets, if designer want to remove something, they can do the subtraction. vs. now they have to mark from zero item to all. if they want to change export settings, there is default image to 1x and 2x png, and default icons to svg. if designers want to change the setting later, they can

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Aga_Lewicka
Aga_Lewicka
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New interaction in Prototype mode > loading between screens

Type of transition > loading Generic loader in between transitioning from one screen to another.

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Aga_Lewicka
Melisa
Melisa
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Disable comments on presentation mode

Can we please get the option to disable commenting in presentation mode? This could be an “advanced” feature or whatever but it would be great to have please!

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Han_Doan
Bogdana
Bogdana
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Creating new line via `shift+enter` adds a `L-SEP` symbol

When a new line in a text component is created via shift+enter a L-SEP character is added to the end of the line that later on is visible in a web page (Chrome - Windows) when you have copied&pasted the content from Figma.

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Sebastian_Hemetsberger
Scott_Savarie
Scott_Savarie
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Add ability to trigger component variant change from outside component

A use case for this: I have a fullscreen modal component with the props: isVisible: true | false. I’d love to be able to click a button (from outside the component) in the parent frame and have it trigger the modal to be visible: true. Additionally, I’d love for it to use any animations I’ve predefined in that component for changing from variant x -> variant y for the transition (I understand this is complicated if there are multiple triggers set up internally, but it could default to using the first or something).

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Ashwin.n
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Figma mirror height fit

When previewing in the mirror the app it does not allow changing width fit to hight fit. If we are designing anything in landscape view it becomes hard to preview design. Is there a way to make the preview hight fit?

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LisaMichelle
Arvid
ArvidActive Member
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Inspect a version history file

I want to share a certain point from the version history with developers so they have a finished version they can inspect while I work on a new version. However, while I can find where I can copy and share the link of a restore point in the version history, when others view them, they cannot switch to “inspect” to see the version history.

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Gleb
GlebPower Member
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New paste features — simple but big improvements

I present to you some simple yet very effective and intuitive improvements to the new paste functionality. Let me know what you think! Community feedback Let’s start with some feedback the community has about the new pasting features. (Note that Ctrl = Cmd on macOS in all the following shortcuts.) On the surface these are perfect additions! But when used in the real work setting, they seem to have some issues. The most problematic thing is probably that “Paste over selection” now has a very awkward key combo: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V. Four keys! Judging by the amount of feedback on this issue, a lot of people have been using it for their daily workflow. Did you know there was a Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V shortcut in Figma already? It allowed you to stack things vertically, it’s called “Distribute vertical spacing”. Nobody used it, but having two shortcuts doing the same thing is a bad idea. Now the stacking one doesn’t work. Ya’ll probably use Macs so you overlooked this. The majority of Figma use

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Deependu_Ajish
Deependu_Ajish
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Improve font search and add filter

Figma’s almost entirely replaced my set of tools and it’s a lifesaver! Still a few features I miss out from Photoshop which I think can be implemented to Figma. Font Filter: So, I used to use illustrator for this and obviously that’s what it’s meant for. But now that I’ve switched to Figma almost entirely, I see myself going back to Illustrator for just this feature. So when I’m selecting fonts, there are no previews. There is also no way to filter them by sans serif, serif, etc. I’d love to see something along these lines implemented!

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Rick12
Tomas_Kvasnicka
Tomas_KvasnickaNew Participant
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Preserve fill override when a component updates

I use components from a design system library. I override many things in the components. When a component updates, my overrides are preserved - except fill. That is a problem, especially when the fill is an image. Every time the component updates, the image is gone (reset to the default image). It is a real pain and I wish this was changed soon.

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Andy_Denham
Pranay_Sethi
Pranay_Sethi
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Press Tab to fill text box with lorem ipsum

While I’m typing in a text box, I’d love to hit Tab or another keyboard shortcut to fill the text box with lorem ipsum or another stock text.

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Gayani_S
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