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Ludwig_T
New Member
September 12, 2022

Need a way to “get latest updates” or “subscribe to changes” from a published community file

  • September 12, 2022
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In other words a way to branch to/from a Community file

Hi everyone,
I publish a design system (DS) to the Community and have frequent updates to fix issues and add/update components.

Community members duplicate this DS to their Organizational account to use in their own projects. They have reported to me that once they import the Figma file into their org and use it as a library they have no way of getting my latest updates easily and without breaking changes into their production design files that refer to the original “duplicated” file.

So it would be great if there was a way to publish “get latest” or “subscribe to changes” in a community file. (Instead of having to restart design file from scratch in the latest version of the Design System).

Librairies features are not an option as they are specific to an ORG and cannot be accessed through the community. And Swapping in this use case does not work well at all.

This would be great for everyone as it would allow Figma to always ship with latest official components from the big design systems from Apple, Google, Microsoft and any other design system available in the community.

(If it mean anything Sketch has had this feature for years now)

43 replies

June 9, 2023

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Andreas_Forster
New Member
July 21, 2023

+1 - “using” official libs from Apple, Google, etc to build upon is pretty useless without this.

August 11, 2023

+1 Absolutety critical!

Francesca_Fagioli1
New Member
September 6, 2023

+1; This will help reduce the gap between public libraries and different versionings between development and design. Definitely needed!

Alessio_Bonfiglio
New Member
October 3, 2023

+1 needed!

Sam_Henri_Gold
November 16, 2023

+1, updating files should not be this much of a pain. And yet…

Marianne_Rosvik1
New Participant
December 21, 2023

We need this…

Shane_Baldauf
January 30, 2024

+100, library maintainers would have much more incentive to update their community files, and those downstream who consume third-party eng libraries would have a chance to keep their Figma assets in sync.

Community libraries would be a huge win for those working on enterprise-grade software but don’t have the bandwidth to roll their own design systems.

February 20, 2024

Super +1 to this! This would be a very welcome feature to the already amazing family of features 🙂 Our team will greatly benefit from this. Currently we use a large open source design system from the community which is updated fairly often. For us to keep it in sync requires to republish the design system which takes a very long time.

Shimmy
February 20, 2024

This is very compelling!