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MayaShendelman
June 9, 2021

Keep Comments pinned to design elements (including nested)

  • June 9, 2021
  • 166 replies
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When i move my design elements/frames/etc., I expect all the pinned comments to move with them – but they don’t. instead i’m left with a bunch of floating comments (that are not attached to anything), which requires me to manually re-read each comment and move it again to its correct place. this is frustrating and time consuming. but what’s worse is when another user forgets to move the comments after they move the design elements, so when i return to the Figma file it’s very difficult to decipher the floating comments because they are not pinned to anything so i have no idea what they’re referring to. please keep Comments pinned to design elements (so moving design elements automatically moves comments).

166 replies

djv
Figmate
Community Support
March 11, 2024

Hey @Sarah_Jackson1, thanks for the feedback!

As mentioned by Celine, our team is already working on this. We just don’t have an exact timeline we can provide just yet.

Also, please be aware that Figma’s Community support team does not own Figma_Moderation, Support_Team, or Figma_Support.

Anne13
March 14, 2024

+1 I would also love for this feature to support moving frames to different pages, so the comments move with them.

Luciano
Active Member
March 20, 2024

I came here to ask the same thing, then I just noticed that comments can be reattached to certain elements but not others - it’s really finnicky. This needs to be fixed: to be able to drag the comment around and it should get stuck to the closest element, be it a frame / component / group / shape.

flauridsen
New Participant
April 11, 2024

You can do that by right-clicking on a frame and selecting “Move to page” and a target page. Doing that will move any attached comments on the frame along with it.

Anne13
April 11, 2024

Thanks @flauridsen I wish this also worked for cut & paste… that is what I always use to have more control over where on the page my cut & pasted elements land.

Lisa_R
April 25, 2024

Another issue I face is, if I organise my files and want to move sections / artboards etc. to another file, the comments do not move with it. Even if I clone a file, the comments only exist in one file - so I have to screenshot the comments manually to keep them in the context.

Parker_Smith1
May 9, 2024

wow, yes. need this.

Dominik11
New Participant
May 14, 2024

Why has this issue been marked as “solved” after post #13? Comments following top-level elements are only half of the job, as proofed by all those comments above. Please correct the status of this idea, @Figma_Moderation, so that product owners can see it and take it into account.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
May 14, 2024

Hey @Dominik11, thanks for flagging this!

We’ve removed the suggested solution and passed this onto our team to look into.

Btw, we do not own Figma_Support or Figma_Moderation, so there’s no need to tag them in the future.

Dominik11
New Participant
May 15, 2024

Happy to hear this, and thanks for your clarifying 🙂