LAUNCHED: State management for prototypes

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February 26, 2021
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Just struck a pretty simple use case/scenario where I need the component to reset it’s state when I leave the frame. This has been touched on elsewhere, but this is such a common and key use that I thought I’d put it in it’s own thread.

Scenario:
I’ve got a dropdown menu with three items in it, with each item changing what columns are visible in a table and some other control states. I have three frames, each with a view of the table setup as it should be, and want to use the dropdown items to navigate between the frames - basically faking the table state change. All of this works perfectly, however when I navigate back to a previous table view state, the dropdown component is already in it’s open state - not what I want.

Current workaround: none that I can come up with (other than not using interactive components at all for this, and just using multiple frames for the dropdown open/closed states as I would previously)

Suggestions:

Have a “reset component on leaving this frame” setting for instances of a component on a frame - useful for this situation and others, but needs to be a setting so that components that should keep their state between frames can do so (light/dark toggle maybe? Something like that).
Do it all in a single frame, with the dropdown component changing the the state of the table component - no frame navigation required. Would work nicely for the particular use case I’m working with here, but not sure it would solve all similar situations.
Do both 1 and 2. This solution is my preferred solution 😉 😆

EDIT:
Other threads that relate:

Components, variants and instances

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Melissa_Slattery

Hoping this would be resolved by now! Seems like a very fundamental behaviour to be missing!!

Lauren_Aldrich

Adding another comment here in hopes that more replies will lead to action from Figma. Pretty absurd that this hasn’t been addressed yet.

Wondering: can the OP @Emiliano_Cicero convert this topic to something we can vote on? I’m not sure if that functionality exists in these support topics. Worth a try?

Frzo

+1 for me. Resetting Component States on Click would be so useful.

Christos

New Member

+1. Why is this feature taking that long? with the state management feature it would be a good timing. Its really important for making a good navigation Proto.

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Jase

Hello rockstars. I have the tiniest question.

Context: I have a prototype with lots of frames representing UI states. Figma has made it very easy to wire up the prototype (some testers think it’s the actual app. ha! ). At various stages, I show progress bar components which simply use After Delay → Change To → Use Smart Animation.

The Issue: When a user arrives at a UI state, these Progress Bar animations play perfectly, but only the first time the user arrives at that frame. During their adventure, they may arrive at that same UI state many times, however…the component animation only plays the first time. Sometimes, the “After Delay” appears to begin counting when the prototype is started–not when the frame is loaded.

The Question: Am I totally looking at this wrong? Or is there a simple way to ensure these animated elements play correctly each time the frame is loaded.

Thanks in advance for any hints. 😃

R

Ritik_Jain

+1, Adding another comment here in hopes that more replies will lead to action from Figma. Pretty absurd that this hasn’t been addressed yet.