LAUNCHED: Moving or copying variables

I’m unable to copy a text layer and keep the variables linked up?

Just wanna push this topic. Copy & paste of variables from one file to another would be great!

Having to rely on broken or paid plugins for such a feature is ridiculous after 1 year and going out of beta (when variables are still in alpha state)

Same applies to collections.

And if you do it, do it right. Make Figma track the vars/collections and offer to move them to a new file when you publish (like for styles and components).

It’s Figma. It will take them 5 years.

Can’t believe that there is no way to transfer variables between files. Components could be transferred, so do variables. This feature should be the very first thing to consider when the “variables” feature was discuss.

Every single source of truth should be able to transferred between files. Since the memory management problem of Figma file is a disaster.

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Thanks for your feedback. We hear you. I will share this with our internal team.

As of today, this is not always true. I just copied and pasted components associated with local variables and they were not added - unless I’ve somehow missed a special command to do that with. 😢

Hey Oliver, and others in the community! Thanks everyone for your feedback.
As you mentioned another feature request (to be able to move variables from one library to another one) I’ve gone ahead and switched this topic as a feature request and edit the title, so everyone can vote up for this idea.

(For visibility, our team is aware of this feature request, it’s in our radar though I can’t guarantee an ETA for any improvements.) Thank you!

Yes but this doesnt allow copying between collections or files

Hi,

My team is currently working on the design system for the entire organisation (consisting of several product teams working on different digital products). We have created primitive and semantic colour tokens in the local variables of our main Design system file. The rest of the organisation has no access to the local variables except the semantic colour tokens on the right panel when designing.

Some product teams require different themes in their products, while some do not. May I ask if there’s a way for product teams to have the variables which are in the main Design System file in their own local libraries as well?

Not just a copy and paste but the same set of local variables which are linked to the main Design System file, able to receive updates from the main file should there be any changes.

Thank you!