View Layout Grid w/ View Only Access

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April 7, 2021
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When reviewing designs with developers I’m often referencing the layout grid I’m using in the designs, but if the developer has ‘view only’ access they are unable to see the layout grid in the inspect tool. We have been trying to limit edit access to only designers as we have many developers (30+) inspecting our files.

I’d love it if the layout grid was viewable in ‘View Only’ mode in the inspect tool 🙂 It would help bridge the gap between developers and designers even more 🙂

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Pavel_Nagorny

Use cmd/ctrl+G on view-only mode and u will view grids.

Shaobo

No you can’t do it as a viewer. This is a missing feature

Xu1

Great，it works。Maybe this will help you: find the bottom right corner question icon。 “help and resources”>“Keyboard shortcuts”>“View”>“Layout grids”

Alessandro_Suraci1

New Member

I was sincerely shocked this isn’t visible in inspect.

Alexandra_Gruenagel

We have a grid system in our CMS. The components are aligned on the grid. We recently shifted from Sketch/Zeplin to Figma. It was a shock that there is no “toggle” for the devs in the inspect mode as it is in Zeplin. 🙏

Inma_Caravaca

It’s really a needed feature to have in Figma to be an all in one collaborative platform

Lindsay_Wilson

Just found a workaround, but this does seem to be a feature bug. If the designer switches all layout grids on for each page in the design, then toggles them off with Shift-G, the the developer with View only access can also now toggle viewing the grid with Shift-G, so it just has to be turned on as visible first by someone with edit access. Surely this is a bug and a view only access person should be able to toggle the grid on their own? The grid is absolutely essential for any developers work.

Pelumi

This is possible

The “view only” user just as to go to the main menu, hover on the view option, and they’ll get an option to toggle on/off the layout grid

Kelly_Santo

You can view the Layout Grid but you can’t see the detailed spec as a developer with view-only access and looking at the inspect tab as far as I can tell.