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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

Dan15
November 10, 2024

So irritating. It’s a super quick fix, guys.

j_uix1
December 18, 2024

still no sign on this 😦

AMO1
December 27, 2024

Так и не решили вопрос(

Ahmed_Hassan1
New Member
February 6, 2025

A MUST HAVE!!!

Dalia
New Member
February 10, 2025

Just.. Please. 😓

Carly_Stilson
New Member
March 14, 2025

+1!!!

Lindsey_Leanne1
New Participant
March 25, 2025

+1 — as the sole Product Designer across 4 applications, my focus is entirely on maintaining the design system and creating net new UX. It’s incredibly cumbersome and a huge time drain to spend hours navigating into files to accept design system changes just to maintain all of our hundreds of files.

I get why this workflow is in place for large design orgs, but the workflow needs of small design teams or teams of 1-2 is being completely overlooked here.

Sven Kreis
New Member
July 4, 2025

Currently building a design system in a new company and its a pain that this doesnt exist.

 

Yes, it requires responsibility, but you can prevent this easily:

  • Just dont worry in single seat situations
  • Warn the user when publishing by shortcut if the library is used in a specific amount of files
  • Give an option on the other side when adding a library to collect or not collect auto updates or to maintain it as is with a manual prcoess from whoever is using your library
Beroc
New Member
July 8, 2025

I did it, soon a link with the solution.

 

Kolodziej_Ashley
Active Member
September 4, 2025

Just commenting to say that I need to be able to force-push certain updates - I keep seeing the same problems coming back because people don’t want to go back and update old files, but in the same breath will copy/paste from them as a shortcut to manually inserting components and tweak things, and then forget to update libraries. It causes a lot of confusion with the dev team. If I can’t automatically update files, I want to be able to prevent a designer from dismissing library updates or proceeding further with work on certain updates until they actually do the update.