Would be great if there was a way to be able to change the sort/order in which auto layout components are shown, without having to detach or redo all the work to edit the components.
For example:
eg. using a table or list component, and being able to move row 3 to be row 4.
Current native experiences forces you to either:
Neither of these are ideal from a system or efficiency perspective.
THIS. Re-doing the work or being forced to detach is my biggest headache of any of Figma’s limitations. It causes so much work to be wasted. This and similar auto-layout changes to components has been requested by users multiple times over the years, a quick Google search will pull up multiple other related posts in the forum.
it is super helpful for multilingual design systems, where text order can switch between rtl and ltr.
I cannot upvote this enough, say for example I have a dropdown menu component, many of our platform’s options menus share similar options e.g.
Most of the main feature menus have: Overview, Add [Insert feature name], Statistics, Reporting, Utilities, Settings. Then most of our sub feature menus have: Add [Insert object name], Edit [Insert object name], Delete [Insert object name], etc.
The issue is there are always options in the menu between these common ones based on the other options that are individual to a feature/sub-feature, and the total number of options may vary.
If I were to detach the component to get around this, then I would lose the components state variables when I am using it e.g. being able to toggle between whether or not it is enabled, hovered, selected etc. for my wireframes and prototypes. I could just add placeholder options in the middle of the main shared ones and hide these when I don’t need them but its messy and inflexible. I also don’t want to have to create a dedicated component for each feature and sub-feature dropdown we have as that defeats the purpose of creating re-usable components…
That is just one example of when I encounter this issue but I also encounter it with other use-cases. Surely we can’t be the only users frustrated by this.
This pleaseeeee!! How is everyone working around this with grid layouts, I want my grid of items to be a component so that I can change it from 3-col to 2-col etc but then I cannot change the order of the grid items without detaching
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