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Jackson_Fox
New Member
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.

Pinned Reply By Jackson_Fox

Y’all … is this finally happening?

 

48 replies

Mar 30, 2024 12:16 PM UTC

We really need this feature - glad to know others are raising the case. Would love to see someone at Figma chime in here and let us know.

Apr 16, 2024 11:09 AM UTC

Glad to see others on the same thought train here. This is a needed feature for a lot of agencies, any updates on if this is in the pipeline? - At the moment not knowing if this feature means taking additional consideration in the set up of projects if you want the ability to utilise the baseline set up for new projects further down the line.

Merlyn_Meredith
May 15, 2024 12:52 PM UTC

Duplicate Project is an essential missing feature. Manually doing this for complex design systems is particularly painful… 😢

Emile_S
New Participant
May 17, 2024 11:14 AM UTC

I take it the plugin api doesn’t provide an avenue for writing your own solution? Either by fixing duplicated files components connection to a shared library, or some other approach?

May 23, 2024 5:32 PM UTC

Another user asking for the same feature… Please!

Aug 21, 2024 6:55 AM UTC

This is super important! Please make this happen surely couldn’t be difficult to implement!

Gleb
Power Member
Sep 9, 2024 4:54 AM UTC

@dvaliao this needs to be marked as solved.

Now it’s possible to copy projects:

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Jackson_Fox
New Member
Sep 10, 2024 8:00 PM UTC

While the change Rogie mentioned is Very Good for agencies, it doesn’t solve the problem I’m describing above.

I can now send a project to a client and keep a copy, but I can’t copy a project for myself. For example, if I have a “Boilerplate” project, I cannot copy that and create “Boilerplate 2”, with both projects living in my team.

David_Brien_Swann
New Participant
Sep 16, 2024 5:44 PM UTC

+1 on this feature request. This simple action would save so much time.

FilipaGo
New Participant
Oct 7, 2024 8:26 PM UTC

+1! This would save us so much time! I’m so tired of relinking styles and variables in duplicated files. How is this still not possible? It’s been over 3 years since the first request!