See where component is used / find component Instances across files

Yeah that search is nice but I really would like to search across files.

Regarding Tingtings issues: For me hidden components indeed are not findable.
Ghost components on the other hand I am able to find (within a file).

In the attached images you see I have a dropdown field used in this file, when I go to the master component, I’ll go to the file where it used to be, but it’s saying the component has been removed. But when I try to search for it in the file, there are no results 😦 annoying as hell

Hm perhaps it’s a hidden ghost component then? 🙄

Little update; I managed to find my ghost instance by manually removing stuff per page and putting it back lol. That’s what I do when I’m desperately trying to get rid of ghost components in the assets panel. Anyway, I think the search feature is still buggy, because as it turned out indeed, the instance was hidden. But even after unhiding it, it still doesn’t show search results…

Just adding my weight to this. It’s absolutely essential to maintain a complex, organisation-wide design system.

Really hoping Figma is working on it.

Not across projects, though, which is essential to find uses of design system components.

This is literally the one feature missing to enable effective use of Figma to maintain organisation-wide, cross-product design systems.

It’s essential to be able to find where your components are instances are in any file and to preview what impact updates will have.

Man, this would be a TOTAL game changer. All those plugins are either too slow or simply do not work on large files or across multiple files.

@tank666 I actually cannot search through pages in a view-only file, only one page at a time. Not sure why. And this is my usual use case (searching through other people’s files that i dont have edit access to, to find component usages)

I don’t know if this is a bug or a missing feature in view-only mode.
If the former, please report the bug to support via this form: Submit a bug report. If the latter, then create a feature request on this forum under the #share category.