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Antoine
Active Member
Oct 20, 2022 1:19 PM UTC

Nested property hidden with multiple selection

Been playing around with the “expose nested properties” feature currently in beta.
One of the great uses of variant properties is the ability to batch edit property values on multiple selected components. That use doesn’t carry over to exposed nested properties (yet I hope).

Demo file to help

When selecting one component instance exposing nested properties, said properties display fine. Add another instance of the same component to your selection (using Shift+Click), and the nested properties outright disappear from the right panel.

I haven’t seen this issue raised elsewhere! Do you experience it too?

105 replies

Kevin_Jen1
New Member
Jul 30, 2023 8:38 PM UTC

+1, it makes no sense that when multi-selecting components with exposed properties that you’d somehow be unable to edit the properties of nested components. It defeats the the purpose of exposing properties of nested components if you can’t edit them when selecting more than one.

Like others have stated, updating properties for a group of components becomes a nightmare. Way too tedious to do this component by component.

Julia_Shlyapnikova
Active Member
Aug 1, 2023 7:21 AM UTC

+1 this issue defies the purpose of the feature

Dmitry_Lyapustin1
Aug 1, 2023 10:36 AM UTC

Apparently it was never fixed. Is there any news on this, @figma?

hfu
New Participant
Aug 4, 2023 7:52 PM UTC

@figma We need this to be fixed!

Joshua_Feig
New Member
Aug 4, 2023 8:58 PM UTC

Please fix this. It reduces the value of the nested properties immensely.

calila
New Member
Aug 8, 2023 5:50 PM UTC

Can we get this fixed?
It shouldn’t be such a big deal and will improve the workflow tremendously.

Henry_Agnew
Aug 25, 2023 12:47 PM UTC

I ran into this problem today. And I have about 50 nested instances that I’m going to have to change one at a time 😐

Dustin_Hansen2
Active Member
Sep 20, 2023 9:05 PM UTC

Just bumping this to keep it active. Feels like a bug? Hope it gets fixed…

Jamal_van_Rooijen
Sep 26, 2023 9:07 AM UTC

Bumping this as well to keep it active. I really need this functionality. especially for components like tables.

Zohra_Jayaraman1
New Participant
Oct 3, 2023 8:21 PM UTC

I’m having the same issue. It’s super annoying because I spent all that time creating nested instances of all my components and now it’s no longer going to save me the time I thought it would when manipulating multiple instances at a time.

@Figma please fix this ASAP!