Quickly go to last visited page and back

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
February 22, 2021
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Clicking between two pages is inconvenient – there should be a hotkey for that.

Context — I have components in Page A and need to see the changes I make on Page B. I make lots and lots of small iterations to my design and want to swap between Page A and B quickly to see results.

Solution — A back and forward button (or hotkey) that let’s you jump between pages you’ve last visited and forward again.

Pinned Reply By djv

Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback!

I’ve passed this topic onto our team for future consideration. Please know that this is on their radar for improvement, but they have no exact timeline to share on when or if it will be implemented. I’ll be sure to provide an update here, if there are any promising updates from the team.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding!

tank666

Mac: fn + ↑ or fn + ↓; or Page Up or Page Down;
Windows: Page Up or Page Down.

UX/UI designer. Figma expert. Creator and developer of plugins and widgets for Figma and FigJam. Check out my resources in Figma Community: figma.com/@tank

MadsAuthor

Works with 2 pages.

Doesn’t work with 16 pages.

Gleb

Power Member

In this case you may have found a bug. Report it to Figma support team via support@figma.com or the support request form.

tank666

@Mads wants to see a new feature, like the “Return” button on the TV remote. That is, if you went from page №3 to page №15, then pressing the shortcut will take you back to page №3, and not to 14 or 16.

UX/UI designer. Figma expert. Creator and developer of plugins and widgets for Figma and FigJam. Check out my resources in Figma Community: figma.com/@tank

MadsAuthor

@tank666 Yes, exactly.

@Gleb Sorry, wrong choice of words on my part. It does work, it’s just inconvenient.

I know this is not an essential feature. It’s a nice-to-have—if you spend multiple hours in Figma every day.

Please move thread back to ‘Product ideas’ and unsolve.

Gleb

Power Member

Moved and renamed to make your idea more clear.

de_la_Puente_Pantoja_Alberto

New Participant

The problem: The “back to instance” button its really really helpful but in big files sometimes the navigation trough pages is hard and I feel lost. Something like this comes to my mind *Page A > Go the the master on page B> edit it > you look something, edit it > then you try to find the component to back to the instance in Page A.

The solution idea: A back and forth navigation buttons in the header (or any place). Similar to Spotify navigation button.

The back button could take you to the previous page.

Do you think we need something like this?

Thanks.

Gleb

Power Member

When you click “Go to main component”, at the bottom you will see “Return to instance”. Then after editing this component it will still be there if you select the component itself and not something inside of it. Does that help in your case?

de_la_Puente_Pantoja_Alberto

New Participant

Hey Gleb. Nice to meet you.

Yes, the button “Return to instance” remains always on the master component I came to edit. But the problem here is that the component I came to edit doesn’t remain in my brain. 🤣 So I have to find it.
A simple back button between pages and documents could simplify the navigation. Maybe a shortcut (ie. Cmd+Left) could help too.

Afiq

Could we have a back and forward button on Figma? That would really help to navigate inside Figma file with many pages and designs. The scenario is when im jumping between many pages and have to remember what was the previous page I was in.

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