Hi there,

Any chance to see this swapping symbols when an existing symbol is updated?
I'm willing to help on building an open-source version of this.

When importing a symbol from another file, the text styles and layers styles uses on the symbol are imported.

This latest update where symbols get replaced is incredible. I was wondering if the current workflow could be slightly modified.

Right now when you import symbols, it puts them all on the default Symbols page in the document. However I was planning on keeping two Symbols pages. One for elements that are shared across documents and another that is unique to the current document.

Eg - A global symbol for a site would be the main nav. A symbol unique to the current document might be a symbol composed of 3 global symbols. Say an avatar circle, a name and a description. Used for a row on a user list page. This row symbol doesn't need to by sync'd across all of my files, but the avatar, name and description symbols do.

Because of this I was hoping to keep my global symbols and my local (current document) symbols on separate pages. I feel like the logic should be: If a symbol exists, replace it where it is on whatever page it resides on. If a symbol does not exist, add it to the default symbols page.

Anyway, I don't really understand CocoaScript, so I'm not sure if this is easy to do or not, but I think it could be super helpful.

I can't tell you why, but it doesn't work for me.
When I go to 'Plugins' and select the 'Import Symbols' it brings up finder. I select the sketchfile that contains all the symbols. Enter. But nothing happens.

IOS 10.11.1
Sketch 3.4.2

It doesn't show a popup to select a file to copy when this plugin is run in the sketch so nothing is working.

First of all thank you for this plugin :)

In my workflow I have multiple sketch with symbols in it that I want to import. The problem I found is when I update one file and want to import it again it doesn't update the current symbols.

Probably this is a sketch limitation and want to let you know.

Thanks.

When running the plugin, I do not get any symbols imported, however, when I run it in a Sketch doc that has no symbols, I do see a message saying no symbols have been imported.

@kmerc not planning on updating this I guess? Sad, pretty great idea.

Hi there!

This is a quick note to remind you that Sketch 45 will include a plugin update system.

It would be awesome if you could add support to it (it's really easy!) before Sketch 45 comes out. Ideally, you should release an update for your plugin while we're still in Sketch 44, so your users will have a nice & easy experience when 45 is released.

For more details, please check http://sketchplugins.com/d/229-updating-plugins and http://developer.sketchapp.com/introduction/updating-plugins/

Thanks in advance!