The "Get current selection" action

Learn more about "Get current selection"

Jordan Singer

Jan 17, 2022

You’ll want to run automations on your current selection often.

Use the “Get current selection” action to perform actions on the currently selected layers.

Example: Set the layer name for each of the currently selected layers.

Learn more about the “For each” action.

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Actions in Automator are things you can do in Figma by mouse, keyboard, or menu. Piece them together to automate workflows for you and your team. For example, the automation above turns your currently selected text layers into stickies in FigJam…

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