It's totally necessary to be ablse to override width/height of a symbol instance.

If by complete, you mean you have to ungroup the symbol to change the color of one instance of it and then regroup and save it as a new symbol? That's not complete.

Does that work for AI

@Elaine I believe this feature is FAR from complete. This feature misses so much of the functionality required its almost useless.

When trying to change text within a symbol it’s not reflected on all of the instances because XD thinks it an override. But there may be times when you actually want all of the instances to change. So please provide a solution for this too!

If you cannot resize a button to accommodate for more text without ungrouping it from the symbol, than symbol overrides are nearly useless. Simply allowing us to change the text or image in a symbol is not enough.

Agree with all the users commenting posting about the "feature-completed" on this feature request. Having text and bitmap overrides is definitely a step in the right direction but like another user said, it's 'half-baked'. Color and shape overrides are needed as well, to match Figma/Sketch's excellent override features.

Somehow on my version - 0.6.34.3 is not updating the symbols instances when i change the text.
Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thank you very much.

Kind Regards
Bruno

The fact that XD is putting attention to symbols is great, but I have to agree with many of the comments here. I've been a big user of Sketch from the beginning (I know comparisons are a pain, sorry about that), and became very familiar with Symbols.

The power of overriding symbols, everything from color (using a symbol within a symbol, text, and so on is just incredible, and everything through the override inspector to the right.

Honestly, this is one of the reasons that is keeping me out of switching fully, plus the pining.

the current feature only allows text and bitmap overrides. no other parameters, e,g. colors, strokes, visibility ... . i'm hoping that this is not really considered feature complete.
like other posters, i think figma components are amazing, both a huge time saver and a great aid in keeping designs consistent.

Making this as completed is very misleading... it still has a lot more work to catch up with Sketch and even better to catch up with Figma components which are amazing.

Awesome job team, I can't wait to get into it!

I love the symbols feature, but it seems a bit half-baked without the ability to have different versions of the same symbol.

For example, when due to change in background/element color behind the status bar, the status bar needs to be white instead of black - it would be nice to have a second version/iteration of it that it could be replaced with. Right now, I would need to ungroup symbol and manually change color of all elements within the group, which is time consuming.

w00t!

love that, thank

This is awesome news. Can't wait to have this feature.

There should be a way to change content in a symbol in the same way that you can change content in grid repeats. The grid repeat function is awesome, but it won't work across pages. Often you may want to make a unit that can be reused across pages, and updated stylistically at the same time. There is a function for this in Sketch using the Craft plugin with data, but there is no equivalent function here.

i've seen symbol related requests, such as to scale, resize, rotate, flip, swap symbols... etc, we probably need the option to "tint" symbols as well, rather than filling up the library with variations of the same symbol but different colors.

this way when we change/modify/fix a symbol, we don't have to go through all the other variations in the library to do so.

this inspired by flash/animate, which handles all symbol related stuff pretty well.

thanks for such a great product

Hi guys, after thoroughly testing Adobe XD, right now I decided to stick with using another software for Ui designs mainly because of their very good handling of exactly this symbols override issues. It allows to override:
- text
- colours
- nested symbols
- switching symbols while maintaining relative positioning (based on center)
- size (with the added feature of selecting different styles of rules for resizing, like pin to corner, maintain relative position of nested elements while resizing others of the group, etc).

I would really love to switch to adobe for Ui design, mainly because of CC Cloud, the prototyping features, shortcuts I'm used to and basic tools consistency / drag and drop integration with other Adobe softwares.

Unfortunately, I'll have to wait for this features to exist in XD before I make the switch because this is a deal breaker as far as my productivity is concerned. Overriding symbols is essential in many of my projects that usually go as far as more than a hundred screens.

At first it would be great to have overrides for the following:

- text
- nested symbols inside the symbol

This way we can organize the coloring/styling in other symbols and just override them.

But text is a must – it's pointless to create a button symbol and not to be able to change its label.