Repeater 🔥 (Auto-Layout evolution)

Bumpity-bump! Would be a really useful feature to have.

omg yes, a thousand times of yes to this. And if somehow Content Reel would work with this, OR (just saying!) Notion would work with this, wow…

aaaaaahhhhhhh native CMS don’t attempt me with a good feature

Hey @Josh , do we have any prospect on something similar to this? Thank you!

Has anyone figured out a tolerable workaround for this?

This is one of the biggest issues I’ve found switching to Figma from XD. In XD, you are able to customize everything within a component instance. In Figma, the only way I know of to use dynamic content within a component is to use an “instance swap” property.

In general I prefer Figma’s restrictive approach to components, except it is a huge hassle when your component will have an unknown number of repeating child components. You either need to create one-time use components for each specific screen or you create a variant for each possible number of repeating components.

Repeating components is such a common pattern I think it would be incredibly useful to have this as a built in feature rather than having to rely on messy hacks.

Of course, this is also a slightly bigger issue than the original post mentions. I should probably create a new post for what I’m talking about.

BIG BUMP…Who doesn’t need this? @Figma_Team is this on the roadmap?

+1

Coming from Axure the Repeater is one thing I truly miss.

+1 for me, too. In this case, coming from XD. I think that a feature like Repeat Grid should allow repetition of any layer on the canvas. Say: you want to repeat a group of elements or a frame. This way, you could select any object inside a component and repeat it.

As earlier mentioned, there is also a request for a slot feature (arbitrary instance swap in components), where I think that a repeat grid could help big time. If, inside a component, you can repeat an object that happens to be instance-swappable, this could be really nice.

I do foresee some issues: what if you want to have one component to repeat, but any repeated component is the same variant? I think that the repeat functionality would be most powerful if it ships with the ability to override component properties per repeated instance.

I’m a bit scared it add too much complexity tbh

I am constantly surprised that there are couple of basic features that I was used to from XD (which otherwise was lacking big time in features) aren’t a thing in Figma.

I hope this will eventually get added, it’s really strange how content generation (and overall ease of filling UI with real data) isn’t more prioritized in Figma.