Option to publish all screens even without prototyping
If I started prototyping and publish design specs without the prototype linking all the screens the design spec shows only the screens that are linked in the prototype. The specs link doesn't get updated even if I remove all the links.
In today’s release (XD 27), you can now unset the home artboard in Prototype Mode, which will then publish all of your artboards to your link.
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Steven McClenning commented
When I create a link to Share for Development. I would like the option to share ALL art boards. Not just art boards included in the prototype.
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Megan commented
I agree with this request. In my use case I am wireframing a standard website, and I want to add in a few interactions, but not every artboard will have one.
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Muhammad Faizan Atiq commented
Also any text we keep on the empty areas such as titles of sections like onboarding, wireframes should also be present in the design specs. Now developers get confused which set of artboards are representing what. The Design spec sheet it self looks really messy without the section titles.
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Dylan Cyr commented
This is a really important feature to the design specs IMO
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[Deleted User] commented
Any updates on this?
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Maks commented
Right now user must to connect all artboard in prototype mode, to make it visible for developers. I want to share not only prototype, but artboard with buttons&elements statements, and i don't want to connect them.
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Johnny Cortese commented
I just discovered this issue myself. I added a bunch more artboards to the next version of my file and suddenly I can't export ALL artboards without linking them. I went back to m v5 file and republished (v5 only has like 8 artboards vs 22 in my v6 file). I proceeded to delete artboards from v6 test file and voila! I was able to publish a review link without linking all artboards.
Not sure what the magic number of artboards for publishing without linking screens is, but it seems like Adobe is requiring linking screens for X amount of artboards in a file.
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Alex Restuccia commented
As some of the commenters have already said, it would be great to have the option to upload all artboards, but there is also a strong need for choosing select artboards to be uploaded. Not every artboard needs to be handed off to developers.
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Anonymous commented
Any updates on this?
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Pete commented
100% needed. I have static pages or error state artboards that I don't want to prototype, just need dev to see them for UI design specs. Please update this!
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Anonymous commented
please can this be added, it's an absolute FUNDEMENTAL feature when passing work off to Devs!
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Winnie ABODO ALINGA commented
Right now, artboards that are in my document (but not linked to the main prototype flow) don't show up when I share the specs for the devs.
The thing being , they are alternative flows so part of the same project and should not be hidden in web exports -
Anonymous commented
Any update about this feature?
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Christian Renner commented
I want to export and share all pages of my XD document no matter if they are animated or not (e.g. "export all pages"). That's not possible at the moment.
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Sreejith commented
This is ridiculous.. even after linking it's not updated...
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Maisy commented
It is very tedious to always require to link every artboard to show up just for the design spec. This is most obvious when screens have different states and I usually end up needing to create a custom navigation for the developers just to show those screens. It is very awkward and time-consuming.
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Anonymous commented
it used to be solvable by just linking every page, now even though i linked everything, it still does not show up on the public link
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Marco commented
This is a fundamental feature!!!
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SHANTANU C RAO commented
I want XD to export all the screens as Design specs, weather connected or not connected in Prototype mode. This is so frustrating. It was not like this before the recent updates.
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Chris Cavallucci commented
This option to publish all screens to the spec is very important. Since developers need to see all screens, we are forced to either link screens in the prototype so that they show up in the spec, or remove the orphan screens, put them in a separate XD file, then link it to the original XD file, then publish the new XD spec separately. Or, we prototype in in a different platform and share for client review that way -- that's a lot of extra work! [Voted]