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July 12, 2023

Quality of Life Improvements for Variables

  • July 12, 2023
  • 32 replies
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First and foremost, I’m really enjoying using and experimenting with what I can do with Variables. I have barely scratched the surface but feel like these are obvious improvements that should be included in the backlog somewhere:

  • Ability to duplicate Variables
  • Ability to duplicate a Collection
  • Ability to move Variables to another Collection
  • Ability to move a Group to another Collection
  • Ability to move multiple Variables (between Groups and Collections)
  • Add a description for Collections and Groups (I don’t want to repeat the same thing with slight variations for each Variable)
  • Ability to search for a Variable or Group within the Variables window
  • Ability to move the Mode columns within the Variables window
  • [EDIT] When creating Color Variables, I wished that it remembered the last panel I used to create the previous Variable. This would be useful when I’m creating multiple semantic variables via aliasing
  • [EDIT] Ability to scope multiple Variables that are of the same type

Thank you so much for making our lives easier (and keeping us busy) with Variables! Keep up the good work!

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32 replies

Jyoti_Ghadge
New Member
September 17, 2024

this helps to document in-place

Desislava_Slavkova
Active Member
May 12, 2025

Hi there, here is my variables top wishlist:

  • Add  `search for a variable` - my organization doesn’t allow any figma plugins which makes it really the only solution.
  • view and remove unused variables would be really awesome help.
  • Ability to popup Variables as a separate window - so one can move to a different screen easily.
  • Remove limitation for maximum width of variable window - makes it super painful to look a long conditioning.
  • Nesting If/Else within if/else ( now I have to do super long conditions and repeat some with additional ones because nesting is not allowed.)
  • Introducing Switch/case 
  • Introducing code text editor