i was searching about that issue and i am here now. It is still not avaliable :(

Very surprised this isn't possible yet. I have been trying to get a checkbox to toggle the state of its label text (which is a separate component with its own hover and active states), as you would expect in any application, where you can toggle a checkbox by either clicking the checkbox or its label.

At least give us an answer why there is no option to do that. I need to go through each state in the component and change all. Very frustrated.

This is vital. States are useful only if they have the ability to interact with and impact the surrounding and vice versa. Please implement this!

3 years and still nothing on this :/ We are debating on moving to another program just because this hasn't been added.

I agree, this feature would be incredibly useful. Another use case is when you are making a feature carousel: you have different states for different slides in the carousel and would like the button to change the state of the carousel.

We seriously need this feature. Having to create an entire new artboard just to change something on a screen upon clicking a button is ridiculous.

Pretty please, we need this feature!

The easiest workaround is to hit Ctrl + G on the inside A component, to place it in a dummy group, and than you can change parent B state using the group.

The problem is when you have another complex, nested component C, inside A. Than you do not have easy time changing state of B by clicking C.

I vote for this feature too, to have more flexibility to change one component state from another. For example, give component B a name, so you can reference it.

In case anyone is struggling with this, I've just ungrouped the element from the component within the component to allow of prototyping within a single component. It doesn't effect the component elsewhere. May not be a viable solution for all instances, but it worked easily enough for me.

It would bring XD to the next level!

We need this

I am also looking for this feature now! Please add this :)

This would allow XD to compete with tools like Axure which lets any interaction affect the state of any components (dynamic panels in Axure).

To this day, XD is not a prototyping tool. It is a UI design tool that lets designers demonstrate some animations or some behaviours on their canvas instead of using word specs. But apart from links, simple hovers and overlays, it is not suited at all to prototype even simple interactions such as carrousels. The duplication of artboards for that purpose is just an horrendously bad practice. Components are there. States are there. Interactive behaviours need to happen at this level.

This would we a game changer for prototyping. right now im trying to set up a menu with really big hover elements which cover other navigation elements, which is almost impossible to set up with what we can do right now.

This is a great idea and I’m here from just googling the exact same question.

Would be powerful indeed.

Thank you!

Note sure if Adobe really watches this but casting my vote for this.

This is a huge roadblock for me in my work. Could this be resolved by including component states as destinations? Please add this feature!

This would be a great addition to XD

This would be a very welcome feature.
Please consider implementing this ASAP.