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100% agree on this being implemented in a similar fashion to InDesign's master pages. An earlier comment pointed out that it wouldn't be useful during the early exploration stage of UI design, which is true, but once you've got key things like header/footer/grid locked down, having to duplicate all those elements across multiple artboards AND multiple files is super tedious and increases the margin for error.

How I'd see a feature like this working is me setting up an artboard with a header, grid, and footer, and designating it as a template (which I could then name--Ex: Left Sidebar, Default, Etc). When creating new artboards I could choose to use that template as a base, and that header/footer (including any interactions they have) and the grid would be pulled into the new artboard automatically. They would be locked by default, but I can choose to decouple any or all of them from the master template. I can also go to the master template and make changes, which would then be reflected across ALL documents referencing that template.

Bonus: The header/footer are glued to the top/bottom of the artboard respectively. So no matter how tall I make my artboard, the header/footer will always stick to the top or bottom. Saves me having to readjust them every time I resize the artboard!

Adobe, I'm sobbing. I've lost SO MANY hours to this problem. It's exhausting, it's infuriating, and it's been a standing complaint for more than a year. PLEASE fix this. I'm begging you.

100% agree. The states feature is useless without this ability