Possible to relink Figma variable

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Let’s say I…

  1. Create a variable for a background color
  2. Apply it to element
  3. Delete the variable
  4. Recreate the same variable with different background color

The element now has a broken variable link, though it retains the original variable name. Is there a way to relink it to the new variable since the name is identical?

I’d like to do this across a file without having to manually relink every variable and none of these options seems to do what I want.

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Cool idea.

Adding on this I would love an option to link all uses of X style/variable name to X variable name. Would make adoption of variables so much faster.

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upvote for this, please.

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you can just change the color input for this variable which will be applied to all elements which use this variable. that works perfectly fine.

and in addition check out primitive tokens and semantic tokens… this helps very much with changes throughout the designs and staying organized