Create custom templates in FigJam

Custom templates help you quickly add content to FigJam files without needing to set up a file from scratch. You can create templates to capture your team's unique workflows and rituals, or simply as an expression of your team’s style.

For example, you might create a custom template for:

• Weekly meetings
• Team planning
• Workshops
• Retrospectives
• Design critiques

Template files are identified with a template icon in the file browser. Consider keeping all of your team’s template files in one project so you can easily find and manage them in one place.

Create and publish custom templates

Any member of your organization with can edit access can create and publish a FigJam file as a custom template. To publish a FigJam file as a template:

1. Click the Share button in the right sidebar.
2. Click Publish template. If the file is in your drafts, FigJam will prompt you to move the file to a project.
3. Enter in a name, description, and thumbnail image for the template.
4. Select if you want to Publish to either your organization or current team. If set to your organization, anyone in the organization can use it. If set to current team, only members of the team the file is in can use the template.
5. Click Publish.

Edit templates

To make changes to a custom template, you need can edit access the original source file the template was created with.

1. Open the source file the template was created with.
2. Make your changes to the file.
3. Click the Publish changes button on the notification banner at the top of the page.

Published changes only apply to new files that are made with the template.

If you want to edit the template's details, like its description or name:

1. Open the template in the file browser.
2. Click the Share button in the right sidebar.
3. From the sharing options at the bottom of the modal, select Update template.
4. Edit the template details, then click Publish update.

Unpublish templates

Unpublish a template to remove it from your team’s templates.

1. Open the template in the file browser.
2. Click the Share button in the right sidebar.
3. From the sharing options at the bottom of the modal, select Update template.
4. Click Unpublish, then confirm.

You can also unpublish a template by moving the file back to your Drafts. Learn how to move a file →

Use custom templates

To browse and use custom templates:

1. Click in the right sidebar to open the template picker.
2. Select the tab labeled with your organization’s name.
3. Hover over the template thumbnail image, then click Add template.

In an Organization plan, templates are displayed by:

• teams you’re a member of, including those published to the entire organization and those only visible to members of your team
• teams you’re not a member of, grouped by team

In an Enterprise plan, templates are shown by:

• teams that are in the workspace you’re a member of
• templates published to other workspaces

Disable custom templates

Organization admins can prevent members from publishing and using team templates.

1. Open Figma in the file browser.
2. Select Admin in the sidebar.
3. Select the Settings tab.
4. Scroll down to the Other section, then turn off the Template publishing toggle.

At this point, custom templates created in your organization won’t be displayed in the templates browser. If you decide to re-enable custom templates, custom templates previously created will be restored to the templates browser.

When custom templates are disabled:

• Members cannot publish any additional custom templates
• Members cannot add any published templates to future FigJam files