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Antoine
Active Member
October 20, 2022

Nested property hidden with multiple selection

  • October 20, 2022
  • 104 replies
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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?

104 replies

Calvin_Kuo
New Participant
October 8, 2024

Bump.
If performance is a concern, is it possible to mitigate that by making the nested properties visible only if the number of selection is below a limit?

Similar to this auto-spacing function that currently has an upper limit for selection, beyond which it’s not available / disappears.
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Kelsey_Smith
October 29, 2024

+1 This is quite annoying to deal with

Morten_Stig_Christensen
October 30, 2024

Hello again,

I stumbled upon a weird scenario when setting up the different variants in a design system of a component in an example overview. I use nested components to control the size and potential styling so that you don’t have to create multiple variants with the same structure when all you need are different variant states.

For example, an input field has a label, a field area (where there can be an icon, placeholder, and so on), a help text, and an error text. However, we also need to see the different states of the input field, which means Default, Hover, Disabled, Active, In use, Focused, and potentially, for prototyping, we also need Active Hover and Active Disabled.

All of this takes time to set up, but when I want to create an overview of the different examples and display the prototype effects, I have to manually select them all if I want to change the size from Medium to Large, for example. Because my nested options disappear as soon as I choose them all, duplicate, and wish only to adjust the size.

This is a time-waster, so it would be nice to display them instead of hiding them. Please, please, please show the nested properties as well! I’m begging here!

Best regards,
Morten.

Mads_Emmertsen2
Active Member
February 7, 2025

+1 Bumping this to keep it relevant

Avery_Smith
New Member
February 19, 2025

Same issue here. Doing file refactors at the moment, and being able to edit the nested instances of multiple selections of the same component would speed things up considerably!

James Beer
New Member
March 4, 2025

+1 this is key for working with nested instances. Can’t use it without the ability to edit multiple selections for my use cases (tables).

Dont_Panic
New Participant
March 5, 2025

+1 This is must have should be fixed. Otherwise it’s just a partial feature not aligned with actual workflow.

Bjarke
New Member
March 21, 2025

This has been an issue for 2 years now … do we have any updates on a fix?

Marine4
New Member
March 21, 2025

+1! work can become quite tedious without this feature! please Figma 🙏

Devon Taylor
New Member
April 1, 2025

I’m sure everyone has the same idea - keeping the thread alive until Figma can make the fix. It’s been over 2 years with this issue. We have multiple clients within our agency firm and deal with both our own internal design system as well as client design systems.

It’s a large pain point for my team and myself to individually select components that share the same nested properties and not have the option to bulk select/use the nested options. Hoping that Figma’s team places this into a sprint for fixing.