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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

dannymartucci
November 27, 2024

What’s the procedure to re-link the assets?

Ludwig_T
Ludwig_TAuthor
New Member
November 27, 2024

Hi @dannymartucci
I think you may have posted your question in the wrong thread. No worries just an FYI.

If I’m incorrect could you elaborate on your scenario?

In the proposed change above, branch-users would either “accept updates from main” or reject them following the same process you already use when working on multiple branches of a file in Figma. Branch-users could also submit a merge request to the main-branch-user, if accepted this would add then give the option to all the branch-users to “accept updates from main” again.

Paul_Fleming
New Member
August 20, 2025

+1 for this request