As editor and maybe also as viewer I want to be able to see where specific components are used. So I’m basically talking about way to find instances of a component across files.
There’s a plugin called “Instance Finder” but unfortunately it’s just working within one file not across.
For huge design systems with multiple files and different designers working on it this is far from ideal.
This idea is not new but since the other topics are closed I guess I need to open a new thread.
This would be a super awesome feature. In managing a design system it is important to track how often components are used and get some design KPIs. Get some metrics over time. If it’s still used or not. I really would love to have this feature to understand the impact of certain components → deprecate/advance.
I have a large project going on, with lots of components and variants. It is a pain to have to go through each page to see where a certain component has been used or not.
Taking this into account it would be great if in the future, we can click on a main component and see the usage of that component throughout the Figma file.
Maybe highlight each of the pages in that file that has that certain component, and being able to go to that component directly!
Search function doesn’t work, if we rename the instance.
We still need a solution for this. 🥲
We are a larger design system, have over 100 of “main components”, and around 50 “asset components” (that will be consumed by many main components.)
For example, we have a “header” asset, it’s consumed in both Dialog and Drawer.
But we rename it “Dialog header” and “Drawer header”
Then you won’t be able to find that.
Hey there, thank you for raising this feature request with us! As a workaround there is a plugin you could use to find all Instances of a Component used in your file. Also, I have merged your post with a similar one.
I also want to emphasize the importance of this topic. I just posted a post of my own about the difficulty with the library manager
I work in a large project where i have a need to find and edit component variable instances in multiple files. The library manager gives me false numbers of usages in files. So basically i find each variant use case per file and use the Instance finder plugin and often find nothing.
What Figma needs, is a library manager that can list each use case individually and direct to them, and in addition to that, a native tool to find each instance of the same component and/or variant even if the instances are renamed.
