Hello, I’m experiencing issues with a plugin I have built and I’m asking for help to anyone having experience in building Figma plugins.
We have published a plugin that expose various components defined in a dedicated Figma library. The plugin allows user to search and drop items such as buttons, input fields, icons etc… to a Figma canva. The goal is to quickly build wireframes while not attaching too much to UI.
Our components use properties a lot to allow for variations, especially the instance swap feature to change icons, brand logos, user avatar, etc. We recently started to have issue with the ability to search for instances (no results) while browsing for result works well (expect awful UX with such long list to scroll).
After investigating, we believe this is due to recent changes made on the way one can access external libraries. Users need to add the library to their assets in each file, and the library needs to be in their own workspace, forcing some sort of fork of the original file.
Are you aware of such recent limitation? Do you know if there’s a way to enable that search feature for components from a library that doesn’t live in the user’s workspace because distributed via a plugin?
Thanks a lot for any advice you may have!