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Notamisanthrope
Notamisanthrope
January 29, 2021

Repeater 🔥 (Auto-Layout evolution)

  • January 29, 2021
  • 42 replies
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Hey guys,

Let’s be real. The main spectrum of work with UI, whether it’s an app, or a website, is displaying data or content (such as feed, lists, posts, comments, etc).

We can do a component of a post card, for example. Then duplicate instances, and wrap that in an auto layout.

It would be cool to have a repeater that shows right up after you’ve activated the auto-layout, where you can specify how many times to repeat the instance (component) and bind data to it.

Repeater

At the same time, it would be cool to have a centralized data location somewhere (i.e. when you click on the data, open a shared data set so that the same data can be accessed from different repeaters).

(Screenshot is just to deliver the idea, it’s far from the perfect UI, I didn’t spent much time of thinking it through since Figma has a great product team on board to elaborate it and deliver in an amazing simplified way)

It feels like it’s a very natural evolution of Auto-Layout feature.

So, what do you guys think?

(P.S. Sorry for my English, it’s my second language)

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    martiankid
    martiankid
    New Participant
    March 24, 2025

    +1 on this thread. Really need to repeat a number of items nested in the component 🙏🏻

    Matthew_Ryan
    Matthew_Ryan
    Active Member
    March 28, 2025

    Adding my +1 as well for this. Grids and list of inteterminate length is an incredibly common pattern. Often the styles for between/among the items in the list are something you want as a component. At the moment the best I’ve been able to come up with is to create a component with the max number of items and then hide items to get the number desired. Which is really annoying and weird. Given that XD and Axure have this, it seems like a real feature gap that should be resolved.

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