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Fernanda_Ruiz
September 1, 2021

Shortcut to publish library and automatically update files

  • September 1, 2021
  • 96 replies
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My team and I are currently having the inconvenience of having to publish our library every single time we make even a small change (like a font size increase, color change, etc.) and then switching to the working file and manually updating the library. Due to the nature of the project we do this quite frequently and having to publish – switch file – update every single time to see the changes in our designs turns out very time consuming if you add it up.

It would be amazing if Figma could integrate a shortcut for automatically updating a library and automatically updating the files it is being used on (like a cmmd+S shortcut!), of course not everybody might want to have this so it would also be nice to be able to turn this shortcut on and off.

96 replies

Jason_Groff
February 28, 2023

I would love this. I hate having to publish over and over.

Sebastian_Wittig
March 6, 2023

I also urgently need this function

Cuong_Phan
March 6, 2023

+1 upvote for this use case

apretov
Active Member
March 30, 2023

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Leonardo_Falaschini
New Participant
April 24, 2023

I see that Figma isn’t going to do this, despite its popular acclaim

April 28, 2023

Our SaaS product has a published design system that the team uses regularly.
However, it is crucial that the team updates the published library each time changes are made to the design system. If this step is missed, it can lead to inconsistencies and discrepancies in the product.

To prevent these issues, Is is possibility to creating a feature or setting that would allow for automatic updates to the design system whenever changes are made. This would streamline the updating process and help ensure that the team is always working with the most recent and accurate design components.

apretov
Active Member
May 19, 2023

perhaps this feature is not desirable for design teams, so it can be configured at the team level

Jarrod_Parkes
May 31, 2023

Jumping on the (stalled) train here. Is there any sort of workaround/plugin that anyone is using to currently solve this problem? We would also like to auto-accept/update files after a component has been (re)published.

Kevin_Hannon
June 2, 2023

I’d like this feature request to become a reality too. It’s tedious to have to click so many times to apply updates from the library to the target file/s.

Thanks!

Lander_Zaro
June 8, 2023

Please Figma add this. I’m wasting tons of time publishing changes for myself as I’m the only designer in the company 😦