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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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EmilEf

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This would mean a significant increase in efficiency and prevent misconfigurations.

Supplementary:

It should also be possible to duplicate the teams.

The use case is that there is a central organisation-wide workspace with 10+ independent teams. These teams should each be structured according to a standardised project scheme.

For this purpose, a ‘Kickstarter’ team would be prepared from which new teams would then be created in the correct setup.

Alternatively, an existing team can be marked ‘As template’. When creating new teams, you can then select either an ‘empty’ or ‘from template’.

Philip Light

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Seriously? I just spent many hours breaking Flowbite down so we could spin project off it. You’re telling me I have to do this for every project because there is no simple Duplicate Project feature? Really??

Joe Greene

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+1

DariaZvonkaja

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+1
очень нужная функция

Attila_Reinhardt

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Duplicating a project therefore making a reusable set up with the same design framework should be easier. It would be more important than the “not asked for” UI upgrade which frankly doesn’t save as much time in production hours than a “duplicate project folder” functionality which would allow designers to reuse and iterate on existing projects.

Reload

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Samesies. Help us all save time, money, mental load. If there are interdependencies, maybe leverage the logic behind swapping a library to reconnect new files.

Alex Hoang

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We also really need this 🥹

Artem_Shatalov

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Same. Got a request to clone the project because we’re handing it over to our client. The design system is in a separate file and the Copies are linked to the original design system.