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[Launched] Duplicating projects

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April 1, 2021
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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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Pinned Reply By Jackson_Fox

Y’all … is this finally happening?

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Alx

I agree with your suggestion. Even as a product designer, I often start client projects with interdependent “Figma library project files”. Each time I start a new project, I find myself dedicating several hours to adjusting components or library styles applied to certain components.

Mojo

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This needs to happen, I know is not a popular feature, but same issue here. We, as a team have a project template file and we are struggling with the loss of the styles connection with the components

Kristian_Bangso

Same here. We are a design/web agency and this is how we also work web-wise to cut time setting up basic things. Let us copy projects!

Please make this possible!

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Pavel_Stepanov

Same. We are huge telecom company and duplicating or exporting the whole project is very essential for us cause duplicating files leads to loosing links between each other

Jean-Marc_Lehwald

We really need this feature!

As we have components nested in others and different releases, the library swap does not work if the instances are nested, so the only way to do it would be to copy the whole team, which is not possible yet. Don´t know how to go on further, I´m working at DHL and this feature is so hard needed please make this happen soon!

Will_Hancock

+1.

We have the following use cases;

Project Start - Duplicate a starter project containing UI Component Libs and files.
Transferring work to a client’s Figma account. We can transfer Projects or Teams, but we would like to maintain or keep a version. So Ideally we duplicate, and then transfer 1 version to the client Org.
Disaster recovery - Duplicate a whole setup for backup. Quite important for a large structure for an entire organisation’s DesignOps.

kishor_kumar_khadka

Just keeping this thread active. Please let us duplicate entire projects as the others have mentioned. Thanks

jponch

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I just want to +1 this request! We’ve worked to establish project best practices that we can continue to refine over time, but the biggest limitation to doing this well is the lack of ability to duplicate a whole project, maintaining the various variable/component/style relationships within the files in said project. Been wanting this feature for years now.