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Jackson_Fox
Jackson_Fox
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Apr 1, 2021 4:58 PM UTC

[Launched] Duplicating projects

Today: As an agency, we’re frequently starting new projects for new clients. We’ve evolved a set of best practices for Figma file organization, per-client design systems, etc. These best practices have been captured in a Starter Project project in Figma. However, to use this Starter Project each designer must duplicate each file in the Starter Project individually and then move them over into a new project.

Idea: We’d love to see Figma support duplicating projects in addition to the existing file duplication functionality. This would be a small but noticeable improvement in efficiency for spinning up new client projects.

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    Y’all … is this finally happening?

     

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    Guillaume_Hambourger
    Guillaume_Hambourger
    Apr 13, 2021 12:48 PM UTC

    You have a library in your Start Project?

    Gleb
    Gleb
    Power Member
    Apr 13, 2021 12:54 PM UTC

    You can select all files in the project (Cmd/Ctrl + A), right click, click duplicate and then move them to the new project via drag & drop.

    Murillo_Teixeira
    Murillo_Teixeira
    Aug 16, 2021 7:39 PM UTC

    I have a template project (with Figma and Figjam files) and it isn’t easy to create a new project based on this template. I have to duplicate files, sort them and move to a new project.

    If I could duplicate a project my workflow would be simplified.

    My team also feels the same way about this

      Julien.fischer
      Julien.fischer
      Aug 27, 2021 10:47 PM UTC

      @Gleb Unfortunately, this is not going to solve the problem.
      If you have files A and B (with components syn together) and duplicate these 2 files.
      C and D components won’t be linked anymore…

        Henricco_Marcieri
        Henricco_Marcieri
        Sep 27, 2021 7:45 AM UTC

        Hello Community!

        We are a Design Agency based in Sydney with vast experience with design systems, variants, componentization, and file organization.

        In this article, we illustrated why we believe the absence of an essential feature is slowing down the large-scale implementation of design best practices and costing a lot of money and working hours for design agencies and organizations.

        Please, check out the article link in the comment section.

        (It seems like we can’t include links in a post).

        It will be fantastic to have feedback from the community on this.

        I hope you are all well and safe!

          Julien.fischer
          Julien.fischer
          Sep 27, 2021 7:46 AM UTC
          Medium – 27 Sep 21
            Marek_Pietruszko
            Marek_Pietruszko
            Sep 28, 2021 11:48 AM UTC

            +1, sick of doing the same work every single time a new project starts, when you try to have a repeatable flow.

              Gui_Ranieri
              Gui_Ranieri
              Mar 31, 2022 4:44 PM UTC

              Some of us use projects as a templates do estandardize other projects across the company. Could we have a “duplicate” on a project level?

                Hannah_Durbin
                Hannah_Durbin
                Aug 16, 2023 9:20 PM UTC

                Reviving this topic - seems like it is still a missing issue? I am a recent Figma user and have been trying to figure out if I can duplicate projects from the project level instead of each file individually.

                  Jeroen6
                  Jeroen6
                  Sep 21, 2023 7:01 AM UTC

                  I noticed this topic has been revived in Mar 2022, we are now 1 year+ later, but still I can’t seem to find a copy project option? Anyone?

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