Shortcut to publish library and automatically update files

This was my workflow a couple of months ago:

Alt + 3 > Tab > Enter > Shift + Enter

Super fast! Right? Alt +3 opened the Libraries panel, Tab would move the focus to the “Publish…” button, Enter to “click” it, then I’d press Shift + Enter to publish immediately.

It was great, until… Figma pushed the “Current File / Your teams / Other teams” tabs (and some other stuff in this panel).

Please create shortcuts to publish libraries without friction. Thanks!

My recent discovery was this. You click on the little chevron right next to the file name and voila

Count me in. As a primary maintainer of our corporate design system libraries I waste humongous amounts of time walking through hundreds of design files and review/receive updates.

I absolutely and vitally need an effort-efficient proces of mass updating and managing breaking changes using rule based approach, where overrides are kept in a pre-defined way during a batch update that is initiated from the library.

It is possible to improve even bringing publish icon to the main level, but NO for 2 years. This publishing just kills me. I am back to Sketch because of this unfriendly UI.

I’ll pile on and offer a bit of context.

When you have multiple folks using a library, it makes sense to notify designers that the library has changed and give them the chance to accept (or not) those changes.

But this isn’t a problem when you are the only designer working on the library and the files that use its components.

The extra step when you publish, where it summarizes each change, is not necessary because I’m the one who just made the changes.

The extra step to accept the changes in the other files - again, not necessary because I’m the only designer working in them

So give us a “one player mode” that streamlines that process. I’m also going mad jumping back and forth between the library and my files, with all the extra clicks required just to see the updated components.

This is a huge time suck for me. So I’m adding my +1

Also adding my vote for this. It is painful.

Figma team: How about just putting this command somewhere in the Menus? We could then bind it to a keyboard shortcut, which is downright impossible right now.

Here is my suggestion for a shortcut. How about Command + S to “Save & Publish Library” like in the good old days? Easy to access on the keyboard too!

Jesus Chris, please! We need auto-update option for the files. Manually publishing library/changes isn’t that much of a chore, since you just do it from on file where you’ve created the changes.
But manually updating each file which uses the library is insanely time-consuming. If I update something regarding a color, or a text style, I would have to open and update something like 30 files, if I’m using one file per component approach.
Even with a simpler design system setup, you still need to go through at least 10 files and manually update each one. That’s just so much wasted time.

I understand that sometimes auto updates aren’t preferred, but that’s why we need an option, which can be set by a team leader, main editor or whatever.

I’m with you, bro! Needed, Every single time i have to go back and forth

And for whatever reason this has changed for me to:

1. Alt+3, 2) Publish, 3) Publish, 4) Switch file, 5) Alt+3, 6) Review, 7) Updates tab, 8) Update all

Then I might have to reload the presentation, because it doesn’t always update with the changes made.
☝️This × 500,

Doesn’t always happen, but oftentimes it does.
So annoying! 😭

And did they just add tabs for ‘current page’ and ‘all pages’?