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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

Gleb
Power Member
January 18, 2022

The comments should now be pinned to all top-level elements:

video source

Kyle_Holten
New Member
February 15, 2022

Continuing the discussion from Keep Comments pinned to design elements (so moving design elements automatically moves comments):

I was working with this fix and I’ve noticed that the comments are not sticking to individual elements if they are in a frame. For example, if I have a desktop web page layout and I want to comment on a specific section, and then I reorder the page sections, the comment will not move with the element, but stay pinned to the original location within the overall frame.

Kyle_Holten
New Member
February 15, 2022

@Gleb please see above

Jeff_Verkoeyen
February 19, 2022

+1 to Kyle_Holten’s video. I’ve been similarly running into this when trying to attach comments to child frames that need to move around within the parent frame (e.g. table rows).

Adriano_Resende1
New Member
February 22, 2022

+1 to Kyle_Holten’s video.

Alex62
February 24, 2022

I have made comments throughout my file. Later down the road I have done some re-organizing where I have moved a screen to a different page or even just moving it to another spot on the screen. When I do this any comments I have made pointing out feature functionality stay in place and I have to manually move it to the part it should be attached to. It would be great if we could pin a comment to a frame or element so that as it moves the comment follows.

Big
New Participant
March 8, 2022

I don’t think this is fixed. The comment may stick to a top-most frame, but it doesn’t respond to things within the frame, so if you’re making a comment on the contents of the frame and things get adjusted, it doesn’t move with the specific content being commented on (e.g. If you make a note about a field in a form, then other fields get deleted so the original one moves up, the comment doesn’t go with it)

larehf
March 30, 2022

+1 on comments in framed elements: a shortcut like CMD + C on a Mac to enter a comment and pin it on a framed element would be a great fix!

Jessi
April 6, 2022

Ok, haven’t read the whole thread here… But I just learned that if you use the “Move to page” function, the comments are following when you move it to another page. So mark, right click and choose page to move to.

Jerimy_Brown1
April 15, 2022

This is still an issue… Comments stay pinned now, unless you move something to another page, then the comment gets left behind.

Looks like Jessi above has a work around, but would be better usability if it just stayed with element, and we didn’t have to use right click menu.