Yay!!!! Thank you this is a good start

I can see this Feature is LIVE now, but when I export images it should also embed image that is behind.

Yes that is exactly what I am looking for.

would love to see this feature. Copy/paste an entire artboard isn't efficient when you are working on complex apps. Also, I would love to stop using InVision, but the ability to do overlays there is keeping me from fully migrating to Adobe XD prototypes.

Feature started September 23, 2016? It's May 17, 2018. Is it at least close to release?

When I want to mimic display of a dialog box, I have to duplicate the artboard and paste in a mask and the dialog box. Rather than duplicate the artboard, it would be great if an object, instead of linking to a new artboard, could toggle the visibility of items in the current artboard.

This is simple functionality that XD should have

Prototype Function: Add ability to prototype object without creating new artboard.

Details: If I click on a nav menu, I would like the dropdown to show without having to create a new artboard and duplicate content to just show the dropdown overlayed. This would also help with modal / popup windows.

Nice to have: animations of these objects

Slide down, slide up, slide left, slide right, fade in

You could treat this as a layer of the artboard, name it overlay object or something. and be able to define position when not shown, and position when shown, start and stop position, like in Adobe Flash, lol.

One year and a half from this post, does Adobe added this functionnality ? XD is a great tool but we need some quick updates on it, too many functions lacking

Hello? Anyone at Adobe (taps mic) is this thing on? For those of us that cannot upload our copyright info to the web, any plans to make this a reality (No offense Marvel and Invision, I just dont want you stealing our designs).

When will this be ready???

I really want to start utilising my adobe cc membership more but currently using Sketch and invison 80% of the time basically because of this feature. Im questioning paying for a full membership because of this. Adobe please change!

Feature Started Sep 23, 2016. - probably a single dev working on this.

Allow simple changes like colour and hide on clicks without having to making a new artboard.

I want to animate only one part of the screen. For example, header and footer will be stil, but content will slide left, and new content will be shown instead of former content.

Potential backlog item - User story: As an admin I want to be able to post to the forum so that I can update the legion of frustrated experience designers

Invision's Overlay is great

It would be great if you could transition individual elements on a single page to show drop downs, form fields, carousel and other functionality instead of duplicating a new page each time.

To answer John Gs question below, Adobe XDs method for "faking" an overlay with a new artboard does not work when building full screen apps (a large contingent of UXers are not designing web pages and mobile, they design desktop apps). So copying an entire page to add one small overlay makes no sense. My desktop app needs 100 pages to show all the separate overlays.

I would find this useful for features that appear throughout a prototype across multiple pages. This would allow you to for example implement on modal artboard which could be overlayed for every page it features rathen than duplication each page for a modal.

A typical example would be a feedback modal accessed from a tab button across a every page of a website
website.