Plugin unable to access figma.teamLibrary despite manifest with "permissions": ["teamlibrary"]

Plugin and Widget API Bugs
1

Per the documentation, plugins should be able to access the new figma.teamLibrary object when the manifest is configured with “permissions”: [“teamlibrary”].

I’ve got a Figma with a team library which is visible from the developer console window:

> figma.teamLibrary
> {getAvailableLibraryVariableCollectionsAsync: ƒ, getVariablesInLibraryCollectionAsync: ƒ}

However, when I try to access this object from a plugin in development which has the permissions configured in the manifest then

figma.teamLibrary returns as *undefined*

From the plugin I can log the figma object to the console and see that, in fact “teamLibrary” is missing.

Anyone had success accessing teamLibrary from a plugin yet?

2

I just tested this on my side and both the property and its methods work as expected.

3

@tank666 Thanks for the response, can you please confirm some details for me?

Here’s my setup:
1) Figma project - Library Source

  • this project contains a single variable collection: “Collection 1” and a single color variable “test” set to #ffffff (not that the color matters).
  • I published this as a library to one of my enterprise subscription teams, including “test” variable as an export

2) Figma project - Library Test

  • I imported “Library Source” project as an asset library, create a rectangle node and assign the fill property to the “test” variable from “Library Source”

Next I created a basic, run-once plugin with the following manifest:

{
  "name": "library-variables",
  "id": "1256735375235080757",
  "api": "1.0.0",
  "main": "code.js",
  "capabilities": [],
  "enableProposedApi": false,
  "permissions": ["teamlibrary"],
  "editorType": [
    "figma"
  ],
  "networkAccess": {
    "allowedDomains": [
      "none"
    ]
  }
}

And this in the code.js file:

console.clear();
console.log(figma.teamLibrary);

figma.closePlugin();

Running the plugin, the console output remains: undefined and I cannot access teamLibrary from within the plugin.

If I run this in the console window directly: console.log(figma.teamLibrary) then I get this result:

{getAvailableLibraryVariableCollectionsAsync: ƒ, getVariablesInLibraryCollectionAsync: ƒ}

Not sure why the plugin isn’t returning the same object reference.

4

So the difference between your manifest file and mine is that I had the proposed API enabled.

5

Thank you, @tank666 , that was the trick.