Apply/Override icon changes after disabling "Sync"

[Kuptain]

Hey!

I am currently using icons to make template for my card deck. I thought it would be nice to make the base card an icon and disable "sync" whenever I work on a single copy. This way, I can adjust the size of certain objects later.

One thing I couldn't get to work is re-enable sync, after you changed a specific object inside the icon hierarchy. 

 

Example: I have a card with a font inside it. Now I disable "sync" for the icon to edit the card's name. After re-enabling sync, changing the name on another card will no longer override the previously desynced card... Changing color/size etc does still apply, but I can no longer override the text change.

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @Kuptain

I think the sync feature is a bit ambiguous but my take on this is, a colour is a colour, same with a font's size, 18pt is 18pt regardless of the font selected, but, changing a fonts typeface and then re-syncing gives the symbol a unique parameter in the typeface so the symbol would now see this as unique and separate from the core symbol and also identify it as a permanent change, else changing the typeface would change all of the symbols once re-synced.

Back to the colour, if you add an extra parameter like Noise you will get the same reaction as when you changed the font typeface, you have made it more than just the colour, you have added a parameter that makes that colour unique by adding noise.

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, BofG said:

I see it more simply - any property that is altered when sync is disabled is removed from the attributes that are synced.

Yes, that seems to be 'by design.' But it is not clear from what the Symbols help page says that this is how it works:

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Synchronization allows editing across all symbols, while unsynchronization means all future editing is restricted to the current object and no longer affects the other symbol instances, until synchronization is enabled again.

It would help if somewhere in that help page it said that once an attribute was unsynchronized from the symbol it no longer can be resynchronized.

[BBG3]

I think we designers need something similar to Figma's components.