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Override text or image fill on a specific instance of a reusable symbol

NOTE: originally this request asked for the ability to override many different styles, not just images and text. If you want to override other styles, please upvote:
https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/19626142-override-styles-in-a-symbol

You may also be interested in these related requests:
- Override entire nested symbols: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/19592509-nested-symbols-override
- Multiple swappable states inside one symbol: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13031871-add-multiple-states-inside-symbols
- Resizable symbols: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/16939339-scale-resize-symbols-individually


Balsamic Symbol :
Any group of elements than can be named and re-used across multiple artboards.
Modifications to the symbol are reflected across all artboards that use the symbol.
It gets better - you can override part of the symbol - text / color / position - for a specific instance.
Any override does not get affected by changes to the symbol.
You can reset anytime your instance edits to the symbol state.
This feature saves an incredible amount of time.

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Lionel shared this idea  ·  April 30, 2016  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Delete…  ·  Admin →

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feature-completed  ·  AdminElaine (Adobe) (Product Manager, Adobe) responded  ·  June 13, 2017

Symbol overrides are now available! Download the June release of XD today to get access to bitmap and text overrides (as well as the Apply command, which will apply your changes from the selected symbol to all other symbols).

If you don’t see the update in the Creative Cloud desktop application, click on the gear icon and select “Check for App Updates.”

-Elaine

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feature-started  ·  AdminElaine (Adobe) (Product Manager, Adobe) responded  ·  April 06, 2017

We’ve started work on overriding text and color in symbols.

-Elaine

AdminPeter Flynn (Software Engineer, Adobe) responded  ·  November 04, 2016

I’m pleased to say you can now use symbols in the November release of Adobe XD! Now that this related suggestion is one step closer to reality, we’d like to hear your feedback on it in more detail.

Please let us know the specific types of things that are most important to override on symbols: text, images, fill colors, etc.

Also, would you ever want to change your mind and revert an override? What about the opposite: dropping the override by making all the other copies of the symbol match it? Are there cases were you’d want to be able to override a property on some copies of a symbol while some other copies of the symbol all share one value for that same property and continue to sync your changes when you edit that property? Etc.

AdminPeter Flynn (Software Engineer, Adobe) responded  ·  June 29, 2016

Clarified title a bit.

Note: this is essentially an add-on to the initial request to support reusable symbols at all. If you support this request, please also upvote the “main” request at https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/12931467-reusable-symbols-master-objects

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  • David Knell commented  ·  November 04, 2016 10:39  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    What I want more than anything else is to have a button symbol (rectangle + text) where I can change the text (OK, Cancel, Submit, etc.) and the right side of the button changes to match the length of the text.

    That same concept applies to list items: when the text extends to two or three lines, the item becomes taller to fit it.

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  • Mark Whitley commented  ·  November 04, 2016 06:34  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Symbols are a nice start, thanks!

    Text and color overrides would be awesome, for now I'm having to ungroup the symbol to override text which means I'm losing the power of having a "master" symbol to make mass changes across the instances which have been edited.

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  • Ted Nugent commented  ·  November 04, 2016 06:16  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    thanks so much for the implementation of Symbols in this latest release; really like how XD is coming together and have integrated it into our workflow.

    For symbols tho, I think users largely use those to protoype common elements across the application, but its critical to be able to modify some of the values in context.

    It appears that right now symbols are live references in the document so that all properties change globally across the doc which is not helpful unless the symbol is 100% the same in every case.

    Styling properties should be references, but all other properties like text, width/height of sub-elements I think should be instanced so that they can be modified in context. It many ways it should follow the same behavior for Styles in MS Word.

    At the moment the symbols feature is almost there, but not quite usable in a meaningful way, REALLY hoping that this can be updated for the December release!

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  • j commented  ·  November 04, 2016 03:02  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Have you seen the components concept @ https://subformapp.com/ ?

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  • Isaac Powell commented  ·  November 04, 2016 02:52  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    This is an absolute essential part of symbols. Getting the global/instance balance right, with the ability to name and reorganise them in the panel, would be a real advantage.

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  • Camille commented  ·  November 03, 2016 03:23  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    when you convert a text into symbols, and this text was used for a repeating grid. you lost all the effect of having different text for each element of the grid.
    that make it useless in a repeating grid and it's sad…

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  • Armando Scuro commented  ·  July 09, 2016 22:16  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Hi, I know you are working hard on symbols and I was thinking It would be good to have attributes that can be controlled by user.
    So say I create a button symbol, I can make the color attribute global so changing it would change the color of every button using that symbol. but maybe width is local attribute, so i can different width buttons that belong to the same symbol.

    Thanks, big fan of the product :)

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