Override styles in a symbol (allow symbol differences)
Right now, you can override text and bitmaps in a symbol. I'd like to be able to override appearance properties like opacity, fill color, borders, shadows, and font style.
AdminElaine (Adobe)
(Product Manager, Adobe)
shared this idea
Hi All,
We’re excited to announce that with our May release, we have introduced Components (previously known as symbols). Components are design elements with unmatched flexibility that help you create and maintain repeated elements while varying the instances for different contexts and layouts.
You can create a master component to define a reusable element, such as a button, and you can change any of its properties to customize instances of that element (Size & Layout, Style and Appearance, and Structural overrides). Changes you make to an individual instance are specific to that element, but changes you make to the master propagates to all the instances where the property hasn’t been customized.
Components now could also be responsively resized with the same powerful capabilities of responsive resize baked in.
Finally, you could link components across documents to maintain a single source of your components using the Link Assets feature or simply through copy/pasting components across documents.
To learn more, please check:
https://letsxd.com/whats-new
https://helpx.adobe.com/xd/help/linked-components.html
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
Thank You!
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Anonymous
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Sometimes it is handy to make a symbol containing text that is exactly the same in every instance of this symbol.
Unfortunately, when I want to update the text in every instance I have to either update every instance or cut and paste the text. The second solution is quite fine when there is no link to this text, but when there is a link, it is erased when the text is cut out.
It would be also handy to include a persistent link in the symbol (as an option), so you do not have to link every instance of a symbol to the very same page. This can be very useful for navigation (you would say only once that the link "home" in your symbol opens the homepage).
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Heinz Doofenshmirtz (mad)
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yes please
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Bryce Flynn
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Configurable instances of symbols - size, labels, colors and especially STATES - of huge value. Just look at dear old, gone-but-not-forgotten Fireworks to see what's been lost.
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Anonymous
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Absolutely a necessity to compete with the likes of Sketch. This functionality is critical to being able to prototype efficiently on large-scale projects!
Keep up the great work XD team!
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Tess
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Really needed this feature in a last project. Changing different size & fill colors I had to almost ignore such a nice "symbol" functionality.
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James
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We would like to have symbol color overrides without having to ungroup it.
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Andrew
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Also, override size and rotation.
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Joachim Tillessen commented
There are obviously many applications for this functionality. If you want only one instance of our symbol to have a different appearance unlinking form the symbol is probably sufficient. However oftentimes we have whole family trees of symbols. UI Components that share a lot of visual features, but have variations in others. (Different states for buttons, Teasers that have slightly different content structures...)
This kind of relations (e.g. inheritance) in the symbol library would be very helpful to create and maintain complex design systems. -
ISI
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I love XD - you are making a great software!
As I often use the same symbols in different apps - like return arrow, drop down arrow, ...) i would love to create my own symbol collection with several standard symbols to which I have access in XD while creating new designs.
But if i use a symbol from my own symbol collection, the symbols still shall be customizable so that I can change colour or size if necessary. If i make changes, it would be great to have the possibilities either to save the changed symbol only to the actual XD Design or save as additional symbol in my symbol collection. But it may not overwrite the graped symbol from my symbol collection.