Copy and paste a portion or all of an interaction

[Jake_LaViola]

The new interactions are great! Thanks for the update (though having only if statements is a bit rough lol but that’s another topic). Right now my biggest issue is not being able to copy and paste either a portion or an entire interaction onto another element.

I have a menu with 6 items that have (relatively) complicated controls doing many things at once. However, because all 6 have very similar rules, I need to copy over my super complicated interactions and tweak a few values for each menu item.

For example, each menu item has 6 set variable interactions and 5 conditional statements and each has about 6 other set variable interactions and a navigation interaction. So each menu item has (6+(5(7)) = 41 interactions. Therefore a total of 6(41) = 246 interactions that I have to manually add even though it’s just a few values that need to change. HUGE time suck!

[Stephane_Popout]

Hi @Jake_LaViola

It’s possible to copy interaction when the prototype tab is open

Function to copy and paste an interaction (Prototype)

Add function that allows copying an interaction (Similar to copying properties) and allowing pasting to another object. This other object would then have exactly the same interaction as the copied object.

However if you want to copy interaction with ariables to another file, it will not recreate the variables needed.
I created a plugin for that case:

How to copy prototype & interactions variables to another file in Figma

Hi everyone, I build a Figma plugin in order to copy elements with interactions using variables to a new file. Here is the youtube video link (if you need subtitles): https://youtu.be/3G9b34_0X6E And the video below The plugin is able to recreate missing variables in the file and to relink them. Figma might implement it in the next months but you can already try it today It’s very useful if you made smart interactions and want to share it with people or reuse them on another fil…

Hope it helps