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Camilo_Sanchez
New Member
February 17, 2021

Custom team templates

  • February 17, 2021
  • 51 replies
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Consider the following scenario:

  • My team needs to have a reusable template with a predefined layer structure so we don’t have to recreate the same file structure over and over and to keep our files consistent enough that designers, PMs and engineers know what to expect of our files regardless of the designer that worked on it.

  • We currently use a file the team manually duplicates by doing right click>duplicate and then move to the project they will be working on, but instead of this, we would prefer to just click on create new file and select a template from the dialog that figma provides. The problem we have is that you need to publish that file to the entire Figma community to be able to do this and the security policy of our company doesn’t allow this.

Should templates be public to the community by default? Can’t we just create a new template and make it available to our internal team only?

51 replies

Gleb
Power Member
February 17, 2021

It’s not possible at moment so feel free to edit this post and move it to #product-ideas so people who vote for it. 🙂

Camilo_Sanchez
New Member
February 17, 2021

Thanks @Gleb I just did that! Is there a reason why this is not possible to do in the product today? Maybe figma decided to design that feature in the specific form it has today (which is likely to be the case, but I honestly just don’t understand the possible rationale behind designing the feature this way).

Gleb
Power Member
February 17, 2021

I guess it was just easier. It’s much simpler to build a static menu for everyone instead of highly customizable things for each user. So I too hope there are more improvements to come from the Figma team!

Rinker_Todd
New Participant
February 18, 2021

Actually, when I read about January 15th’s ‘Template Improvements’ I’d initially thought it meant what’s been posited in this thread! It would be really handy for my organization as well

Lucas_Sorbo
New Member
February 18, 2021

Same here! I got excited and hoped team templates was going to be announced as a thing. I’m going to be really happy when this is implemented.

Josh
Former Community Manager
February 18, 2021

Just updated the title to make this more clear. This is definitely on our team’s radar! 🙂

Jc_Martel
March 31, 2021

1up! We are also using file duplication in my team right now, and this is painful.

Rachel_Wallis
April 1, 2021

This would be so useful - I need BA’s to start from a plain template to add basic components and this would be a great feature to include

Chris_Kuhrt
May 5, 2021

Yes, I would create for each team / product a template with all the gems (auto layout etc). Would speed up the production and due to the template a given quality is insured.

+1 asap! ;D

Joseph_Cooper
May 28, 2021

This would be such a time saver and a nice feature to have to ensure consistency among teams. Make no sense I can use a public file as a template and not an internal one