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Dario1
Dario1
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July 27, 2021

Swap Overlay and set a different position

  • July 27, 2021
  • 22 replies
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Using overlays greatly reduced the amount of duplications in my frames, still there are flows when I start with an overlay in a given position and would like for it to be swapped with a differently positioned overlay.

Currently I do that by targeting a new frame and using a timed overlay opening from that. Looks fine in the prototype, but adds few extra steps/duplications that I’d happily do without.

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    Bart_Van_Hecke
    Bart_Van_Hecke
    Active Member
    September 16, 2025

    Hi people at Figma, this feature has been on the wanted backlog for years now, just wondering how far you are with this feature request? It would save me a lot of time in my prototyping and is just so much cleaner than opening overlays on top of others. 
     

    Related question: Figma allows to set two actions on one click, but when I set ‘Close Overlay’, followed by and ‘Open Overlay’, the second action does not get executed, while I guess it should?

    Thx

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      Carlos_Torres1
      Carlos_Torres1
      New Member
      December 17, 2025

      Hi people at Figma, this feature has been on the wanted backlog for years now, just wondering how far you are with this feature request? It would save me a lot of time in my prototyping and is just so much cleaner than opening overlays on top of others. 
       

      Related question: Figma allows to set two actions on one click, but when I set ‘Close Overlay’, followed by and ‘Open Overlay’, the second action does not get executed, while I guess it should?

      Thx

      I just tried the two actions as you mentioned and it worked perfectly.

      First overlay is a dropdown menu. On click, close overlay and added a second action to it “Open overlay” mapped to the 2nd overlay and allowed me to position it at a different location. Success!!

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