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Michelle3
Aug 5, 2021 12:23 AM UTC

Remove auto creating flow starting points

I love the new feature that allows multiple prototypes per page. One issue I’m having with it, is it assumes I want everything to be a new flow starting point each time I don’t link something from the first flow starting page.

It has a very linear mindset. When I work/prototype I tend to work on a section, then link it back and that creates many flow starting points on accident and I have to delete them.

It’d be nice if either - it only created the first one, and doesn’t assume you want many or there’s some kinda preference/setting where I can turn it off.

Do other people delete starting points or have work arounds? Or is there a preference/setting I’m missing where I can turn it off?

54 replies

Brian_Saunders
New Participant
Aug 5, 2021 11:10 AM UTC

I upvoted this. Sometimes I do find the auto-creation useful but mostly I’m frustrated by this behavior. I find myself manually deleting most of the starting points that are created automatically because it’s not what I’m going for. It’s hard for me to articulate when I do want them to be created for me, but it seems like it’s always happening at the wrong time somehow.

Figma_Bot
Aug 13, 2021 1:51 PM UTC

It’s so annoying, I spend most of my time deleting the starting point, really don’t know why they made it auto.

Fabrice
Aug 19, 2021 2:57 AM UTC

Agree. The majority of my frames are NOT flow starting points. It is easy to add a starting point manually where we need, no need to make it the default behaviour.

Lim_Qian_Joo
Sep 1, 2021 5:46 AM UTC

Agree. Only the first one needs to be automatically created. It is easy to create new flow starting points, but difficult to remove. Maybe an easy way to remove those extra starting points from the list of Flows would be good.

Jeroen_Nelen
Sep 21, 2021 12:45 PM UTC

Yes, very annoying having to remove multiple starting points for every prototype I create…

Prazak_Dawid
Oct 4, 2021 4:33 AM UTC

Second this, it wastes my time removing flows which were auto created.

Adilbek_M
Oct 21, 2021 11:53 AM UTC

Hi! Upvoting the feature suggestion.

Meanwhile, while we are waiting for the feature can anyone suggest a plugin that removes the flows automatically?

Giliard_Gomes
Oct 22, 2021 3:07 PM UTC

Nothing yet? It’s so annoying.

Cody_Shanley
Oct 28, 2021 2:09 PM UTC

Upvoted. Agree that the multiple prototypes per page is great, but each new frame creating a new starting point by default is hugely annoying. Please give us the option to disable those flow starting points appearing on new frames.

Nov 27, 2021 2:10 PM UTC

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