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Nested property hidden with multiple selection

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October 20, 2022
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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?

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Zohra_Jayaraman1

New Participant

Has anyone submitted this as a bug report? I don’t think Figma will read this otherwise.

djv

Community Support

Hey All, sorry for the delayed reply!

We shared this thread with the team to review, and the team confirmed that this is not a bug, but rather a current feature limitation.

We’ve updated this thread to a feature request for future consideration, but to be transparent, right now, allowing for this ability would cause major performance issues.

Marijn

New Member

+1 Same struggle here!

David_Ridilla

Is anyone aware of any plugins that can provide and relief for this issue? All our content blocks are nested and the point is lost without mass editing.

Adriana_Mandjarova

+1 working with calendar components is really difficult.

djv

Community Support

Hey All,

Today we launched Nested component props!

Now nested component properties are visible in both the component playground and in Dev Mode. Previously, only the parent was visible. Learn more about component properties.

Zach_Ward2

New Participant

While these are helpful for some uses, this doesn’t cover the needs for the original issue/post.

When selecting multiple components from a single component set, you aren’t able to adjust nested component properties. You have to select them individually to change them in the properties panel.

Seems like a no brainer to have this as an option. I’m sure it was decided to avoid it due to some architectural issues?

Papes_Christoph

New Member

Hey @dvaliao. I just tested what you mentioned here: When I expose properties from a nested instance in a component, the nested instance properties show up in design mode, Dev Mode component playground, but not regular Dev Mode when the component gets inspected (as you mentioned). Has this feature been removed again?