What’s new: Speed improvements, component properties, improved action search (1.5.0)

What's new in Automator v1.5.0

Jordan Singer

Aug 30, 2022

Speed improvements

We’ve made dramatic speed improvements to the way that automations run, saving you even more time. Some automations are seeing over 10 seconds saved in our testing. Here’s an example that goes from 5 seconds to 0.1 seconds:

Component properties

We added support for adjusting text, boolean, and instance swap component properties in addition to variants.

Improved action search

We’ve improved search while adding actions to an automation. Now you can use frequent keywords to find the actions you’re looking for even faster.

Searching “resize” returns “Set dimensions” for example

"Run" button in Community

Quickly try out an action from automator.community without installing. You can experience the power of Automator before you subscribe.

Click “Run” on a community automation to preview it

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Welcome to Automator

What is Automator? Automator is a plugin or Figma that lets you create custom drag and drop automations that do time-sensitive Figma tasks for you in one click. Now you can create custom Figma plugins visually without writing any code. Do everything from drawing shapes to making API requests to finding layers…

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