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Daniil2
Daniil2
June 9, 2021

Plugin for viewers

  • June 9, 2021
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Hello!
I ran into a problem that I could not find in your help. There is a Status Annotation plugin, it is very well for work’s control. I make a design for a client, and he’s could control the process with this plugin. But he’s a manager, not a designer. The client usually acts as a viewer, not an editor. This is done so that he cannot spoil anything in the design. But the viewers doesn’t have access to the plugin. Plugins can only be used by editors.

Could you make plugins available for viewers? It will be so usefull.

Thanks

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    Baffour
    Baffour
    September 1, 2022

    I agree with that but there are multiple plugins I would say the same thing for! Surely a lot easier to allow read-only plugins than for Figma to build out several pieces of functionality to not need plugins!

    Jaime_Rubio
    Jaime_Rubio
    September 7, 2022

    +1! This is a must, devs need plugins for their workflows. Figma team please add support for this.

      jeromefarnum
      jeromefarnum
      November 8, 2022

      +100. We have a widget that we use to generate handoff details for devs. Currently we are not able to fully leverage the widget since devs can run the code that updates it. It’s particularly confounding since the Widget API documentation literally starts with:

      Widgets are interactive objects that extend the functionality of design files and FigJam boards. Unlike plugins that run for a specific person, everyone can see and interact with the same widget. You can add as many widgets to the board as you need and even run them at the same time. This makes them great for collaboration!

      No caveat’s about everyone only being those with edit-access mentioned anywhere in the Widget documentation, that I can find.

        tank666
        tank666
        November 8, 2022
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        jhm
        jhm
        November 9, 2022

        +1 for this feature

        Duplicating a document every time it changes is kind of messy.

          John_Baltes
          John_Baltes
          November 29, 2022

          +1 please add this. It will help dev and design teams greatly

            Lovefield
            Lovefield
            December 16, 2022

            +1 for this feature.

              hoeJ_K
              hoeJ_K
              January 10, 2023

              +1 amazing that can’t do this.

                Thomas_Loizel_shared
                Thomas_Loizel_shared
                January 11, 2023

                +1, definitely need this for viewer navigation for example (navigate to specific nodes)

                  Nico_C
                  Nico_C
                  January 11, 2023

                  +1 for this feature! I understand that it’s not easy, as some plugins / plugin actions make changes. But hopefully there’s a way of flagging an entire plugin (or an individual plugin action) as something that makes changes (and therefore requires “edit” access to use) vs plugins / plugin actions that don’t make modifications (and can therefore safely be used with just “view” access).

                  We’re using the Token Studio plugin and it’d be great if our developers could launch the plugin and simply view the design tokens used.

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