Getting Started

Hi 👋 Welcome to the docs for how to use the Google Sheets Sync Figma Plugin.

'Google Sheets Sync' can take the content from your Google Sheets file and pull it into your Figma file; populating content and manipulating your design for you — saving yourself a huge amount of time.

What can this plugin do?

  • Change the content in your Text layers

  • Download and set image backgrounds from URLs

  • Swap out Components for specific instances (including Variants)

  • Change colours of your layers

  • Plus lots more...

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Overall Concept

Using 'Google Sheets Sync' boils down to 3 key concepts.

  1. Setting up your Sheet structure – so the content in Google Sheets is organised in a specific way

  2. Naming your Figma layers – they need to be named in a specific way (so it know what content goes where)

  3. Running the plugin – and using a 'sharable Google Sheets link' to populate the content

An example of what you may see in Google Sheets after clicking 'Share' to get your Shareable link

TL;DR – (Too long, didn't read)

The quick overview without needing to read through all the docs.

  • STEP 1: Make sure your Google Sheets file has a shareable link – click ‘Share > Get shareable link’

  • STEP 2: Name your figma layers appropriately

    • Add a ‘#’ followed by the name of the value you want to sync

    • For example: to get the value ‘Title’ – name your text layer ‘#Title’

    • (Note: it is not case sensitive, and will ignore ‘spaces’)

  • STEP 3: Run this plugin, paste your shareable link, and click ‘Fetch & Sync’

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