Elaine, how do you use the symbol overrides feature to wire from within a symbol? Every time I try, it doesn't get propagated to the symbol instances.

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Great news :)

Bravo!

When converting an object to a symbol, it should not remove it's prototype link.

A must-have feature. The #1 use case of symbols is for headers/footers. What do they contain? Loadsa links.

This is a must have. Without it i have to change my global nav by hand across dozens of screens. Major PITA!

Definitely would be useful. I absolutely love symbols, but if elements inside a symbol placed on an artboard was independently a link. Bliss.

I would like a certain symbol in a menu always link to a certain art board, regardless of how many times I copy and paste that menu onto other art boards. I'd like to reduce the amount of time it would take to to relink that symbol on all art boards to the same art board. Hopefully that makes sense.

Symbols are made to repeated. The most repeated item in an application is the header and nav bar elements. So the most natural thing is to want to convert these elements into symbols.

However, if i my nav bar into a symbol and then go on to create 50 screens. I now have to break the symbol and link each item in the nav bar for each screen. At that point the symbol feature becomes inefficient.

This is the most important feature missing from AdobeXD. Without this it is impossible to design complex apps. You have to go back to InvisionApp.

Having the option to link a standard target to a certain symbol would result in working more effectively. At the moment I have to link the same symbol on every artboard to the same target manually. Wouldn't it be great having an option where a symbol, like an arrow of which the target navigates to the previous artboard, links this target to the symbol for every artboard?

I think a better and probably easier to implement, with less usability issues and overhead, will be to include linkage when copying and pasting in design mode or prototype mode. As currently you'd need to go and relink everything anyway, you might as well just duplicate the links at this stage and if users need a differing link they can easily change it. No overhead just a massive win. Upvote here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/13041930-copy-paste-should-preserve-interaction-wires-links Tom also said this wouldn;t be too difficult to implement too.

I think if you collect all the use cases you'll likely find that the desired result is split between the two ideas. Navbar seems to be the most common case, which would suggest propagating links. But if you're building something sequential like a wizard-style flow, obviously each page needs a unique "Next" and "Back" link. My vote would be to have a mode to select the desired behavior for the entire symbol. As a second choice, since the sequential case is less typical, defaulting to propagating but allowing per-instance override is probably sufficient.

I would appreciate defaulting symbols sharing the same link, but then being able to "detach" or "override" from it.

Default behaviour should be to set up links inside symbols that are universal. e.g. all instance of home icon will link back to home. Then when editing prototypes, manual overrides can be made if necessary. Similar to the way master pages work in Indesign. This would be intuitive to understand and very powerful.

In my case, I would like the Symbol case to function similar to the RepeatGrid when it comes to Prototyping. In a repeat grid I can just link one particular portion (or grouped layer) and hook it up via prototyping e.g.

- Navbars
- Tabbed content
- Exit/Back/Forward/Toggle screens

Essentially I use the Symbols for grids/headers/footers and I want to make my mockups completely linked together - before I discovered Symbols I used the RepeatGrid which provided me with everything I needed except that one change on an artboard had to be repeated across all artboards manually vs. Symbols...but the prototyping doesn't work so I always have to ungroup my Symbol and then start prototyping which is contradicting the purpose of the Symbols

When creating a megamenu, I need to have the same top nav links link to the same target location across artboards. Instead I end up having to individually link symbols to the same target location across multiple artboards. Depending on how many links are in menu, that could be A LOT of artboards!

First step:
Make links inside symbols global (Like in every other prototyping tool)

Second step:
Maybe make this work like dynamic symbols in Illustrator:
• Editing a symbol in the symbol library applies a global change
• Editing a symbol in an instance applies only to that instance
• Give an option to go back to the 'mother' settings of the symbol for every instance

Third step:
• Give possibility to inlcude micro interactions for often repeated symbols (eg buttons with hover state)

Can't wait for an improvement of any kind on this!