Components turning into frames
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Components turning into frames
July 3, 2018 at 3:51pm (Edited 3 years ago)Hi Everyone,
here is my issue: I have a global component. When I copy paste it to create an instance everything is fine. But when I try to copy paste the instance of the global component, it turns into a frame :/
Please let me know if i'm making a mistake or missing some kind of trick!
July 18, 2018 at 3:17pm
July 19, 2018 at 8:28am
I'm not sure it is related to this. But there is more hiccups going on when copying components. For example -> https://cl.ly/0l1f45000e0n (It wouldn't copy the component for the first couple of tries so bear with it when watching the video)
July 23, 2018 at 8:14am
this is still a problem, and it probably needs to be upped in priority :( Basically styles are being disconnected all the time, and components as well.
For example, if you copy a component, from another component (basically if you copy a nested component), it gets pasted as a component, but if you copy this component from a standard frame, it gets pasted as a frame.
https://cl.ly/471Y1d162c0U also, there are cases when copying components across different files gets stripped of their styling. I've just noticed that half of my screens have detached styling.
I understand, that Figma is gaining in popularity, features are requested all the time, and the community is very vocal, but since we have no control over what version of Figma we use, you need to double down on ensuring that features that might delete hours or maybe days of work are properly tested. Because there is no point of using styles, if they get randomly detached.
I am certain I am experiencing this issue in some way or another: https://spectrum.chat/thread/22b431a9-6929-4838-9581-5089a4d455aa
July 23, 2018 at 4:37pm
I'm experiencing this as well, if I copy a Frame (e.g. screen desktop frame) that has a bunch of components to another file, all the components turn into frames. My team library is also shared.
but sometimes some components survive, it's definitely a bug
can this be related with using the "Figma Desktop App beta testing"?
August 6, 2018 at 12:17pm
August 16, 2018 at 8:05pm
Looks like this was addressed in the latest release? https://releases.figma.com/2018/08/whats-new-this-week_16.html
August 17, 2018 at 10:23am
August 28, 2018 at 6:44pm
Looks like this was addressed in a recent release
August 29, 2018 at 4:12am
As mentioned right above that comment, it wasn't.
September 6, 2018 at 5:50am
September 6, 2018 at 1:10pm
Ahh I totally get how frustrating it is. It really gets in the way. I wonder why you're still having the issue after the update
Hmm I spoke too soon. Complicated components are still falling apart in some random cases