Unintentional Hidden Variable Collection

Hi there, I’ve published a number of design systems with variable collections before. This is the first time I’ve run into this issue:

  • I have a design library file.
  • I have a primitive and semantic collection
  • The primitive collection publishes with no issues.
  • The semantic collection does not publish. When I check the “Publish Library” settings, this collection shows up under a list called “Hidden” and “These won’t be published”
  • None of the variables have been selected to be hidden during publishing, nor does the collection name have any kind of prefix to mark it to be hidden.

I’m at a loss here!

Thanks!

So…I created a new collection, and then the semantic collection (previously hidden) now published with no problem. Classic case of trying random things and having it fix something seemingly unconnected. :man_shrugging:

I had the same problem here, it’s very annoying! But I managed to add them back to the list by right-clicking and selecting “show when publishing”. I had to do this manually, one by one, for more than 30 variables. But I managed to do it with the current variables, without having to create a new one.

I also have to say that it was quite hard to find the issue, because they were not in the main “hidden” list.

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I’ve just renamed the collection and was able to publish it again.

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@Hugo11 Thanks for the tip, this resolved my problem as well.

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