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Victor_Morales
New Participant
December 12, 2023

Select which properties to expose on nested component instances

  • December 12, 2023
  • 12 replies
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Lately I’ve noticed that when I have several nested components, I would only like to be able to modify some and not all. This would allow the component that draws on other components to have efficient adaptability in its contextual use.




I am setting the variables for the Button component using variables and would not like the size property to be exposed so that the component has a desired behavior based on the active variable.

12 replies

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
December 13, 2023

Hey Victor, thank you for raising this feature request with us.

Sebastien_Lim
New Member
May 10, 2024

Working on design systems for my team, and I have the exact same problem. Would love to be able to choose which properties to expose, so that team members can easily edit molecules (like text copy, Titles, labels) in an organism. Would really love being able to choose which properties to expose on nested components

ange1sha
New Member
July 17, 2024

This would really be an amazing feature

Wes Byrne
New Member
April 23, 2025

Yes please! Either the ability to select which nested properties to expose OR the ability to assign a property from the parent component to properties on the nested component. Currently it seems neither is possible unless I am missing something. I just want to expose a nested button title but none of the other properties of the button. 

Yash1623
New Member
April 24, 2025

Yes, even we face the same issue. This will really help optimise and minimize errors & undesired showing properties in the nested instances.

 

Peter56
New Member
August 18, 2025

Is there progress on this? When I ask ChatGPT it gives me the idea that properties of a nested instance can be chosen but in my up-to-date Figma Desktop (mac) version 125.6.5 there is only the option “expose properties from nested instances” which exposes all properties on the chosen nested instance.

Apolline
Active Member
August 18, 2025

No, the only progress is someone from the Figma team that answered this 2 years old thread 6 months ago saying it wasn’t a priority 

 

Luana de Fatima Silva
New Member
August 25, 2025

That would be extremely helpful

Farhan4
New Member
September 7, 2025

hey, whenever I edit the nested component present in another component, the parent component refuses to expose the nested component’s properties. gets fixed if I turn on Figma again. Is this a bug? or is there a solution?

Markus Zimmer
New Member
November 14, 2025

This ist the most frequented post for the topic:

Post your requests here – maybe this feature will get more attention.