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Michelle3
August 5, 2021

Remove auto creating flow starting points

  • August 5, 2021
  • 54 replies
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I love the new feature that allows multiple prototypes per page. One issue I’m having with it, is it assumes I want everything to be a new flow starting point each time I don’t link something from the first flow starting page.

It has a very linear mindset. When I work/prototype I tend to work on a section, then link it back and that creates many flow starting points on accident and I have to delete them.

It’d be nice if either - it only created the first one, and doesn’t assume you want many or there’s some kinda preference/setting where I can turn it off.

Do other people delete starting points or have work arounds? Or is there a preference/setting I’m missing where I can turn it off?

54 replies

Mike_Martins
December 5, 2022

Please remove the auto flow feature! It’s seriously deleterious to the workflow.

Gratessole_Oceane
December 12, 2022

Am I crazy or now, a flow is automatically created and cannot be removed ? When I delete it, close my project and open it again. The flow is back… 😢
Please, remove the auto flow feature… because it breaks the presentation when we navigate with the arrow keys…

JJ_Soracco
December 13, 2022

Having the same issue. I never want it to create an Flow Starting Point on it’s own.

It is REALLY detrimental when I have a page in my file that I use for a presentation. I send out the presentation link to people and it just randomly breaks on them so they can’t step through the presentation. The only way around this would be to link all the frames together and that would be a big waste of time for me. You can’t use it to present a deck if it keeps doing this.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE kill this feature!

Nikki_Stephens
December 13, 2022

+100 This is driving me up the wall!! Literally killing so much productivity.

robin_figma
New Participant
December 14, 2022

This is screwing up my files and making me look like an idiot when I send something out and the ‘auto flow’ automatically inserted itself (after I’ve deleted it numerous times) and the deck becomes worthless as it’s now out of order and half the screens are missing and can no longer be accessed.

Armond_Aponte
December 16, 2022

@fimga FIX THIS

Ruben_ter_Hoeve
January 6, 2023

Please @Figma_Support Please fix this. We dont want automatic flow. Remove this ASAP

Margot_Gabel
Active Member
January 12, 2023

Running into this behaviour over and over and over…
We often make these 100+ pages brand guidelines that should also be interactive, therefore we want the arrow keys to go back and forth because that’s the most natural way to navigate such a document for a client.

Currently we MANUALLY add both arrow key → ← interactions on EVERY frame because the Flow starting point comes back every time anyway…
Please @Figma_Support have a look at this silly thing!

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Using Figma since 2018.
Maria11
January 24, 2023

is this gonna be fixed? it is terribly annoying, making me think about switching to another tool…

SLT-UX
Active Member
February 7, 2023

Oh dear… That’s insane what you’re dealing with. I wonder if a plugin might help? I haven’t looked very hard. Something that would make it easy to build a linear flow simply by selecting frames. The flow would automatically have the left and right arrow key interactions, so you don’t have to manually add them. Essentially you’d be building a simple prototype flow, but in much less time and with less effort.