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.
I wanted this feature a year ago and I still want it, because why would components be a one way ticket? I can go from a screen to the component but not from the component to places where its used...
Another bump as I’m sitting here trying to figure out if/where a particular component is being used across hundreds of design files in our org. This is badly needed functionality because there’s no way I can search every single file individually to track usage, assuming that no one renamed the layer and broke the only possible way to search.
Hello! I created a new plugin that can help identify stray variables or components that are still attached to a node somewhere in your file. You may have to run the plugin one page at a time for bigger files for now (it can timeout on whole file scans if the project file is large). Hoping this helps some others like it did for me. Give it a try!
Hello! I created a new plugin that can help identify stray variables or components that are still attached to a node somewhere in your file. You may have to run the plugin one page at a time for bigger files for now (it can timeout on whole file scans if the project file is large). Hoping this helps some others like it did for me. Give it a try!
Unfortunately, that doesn’t solve the described issue. We’re looking for a way to identify all instances of a given component across ALL files in an account/org/enterprise, not just within a single file (let along a single page). It’s easy enough to locate a component within a file with the native search or any number of existing plugins.
I want to know how many times our primary button component, for example, is being used across all files created by a large product design team. I can get a count from the library’s analytics report, but there no way to see WHERE those instances are being used. Ostensibly, Figma knows because it’s counting them. I’d like to be able to see the locations and access them to view and/or make changes.
+1 another one of those small QOL updates it would be great to see Figma prioritise over the more flashy stuff
Some suggestions to the Figma team:
Make library analytics searchable and filterable on component properties
Allow us to right click a component variant, and ‘view library analytics’ for that specific variant which could open up the existing dialog that shows no. instances per file with links to them
When clicking on a link to a file, show us where the instances are - I imagine a similar UI to the one where we review component updates
I might be a bit late, but I built a plugin to search for and locate both components and instances. The plugin searches, locates, and lists components and their instances. Plus, with a single click, it takes you directly to each component or instance
