Community publishing permissions
Community profiles showcase files and plugins creators have shared with to the Figma Community.
Figma supports Community profiles for creators, teams and organizations. Whether you can publish to a personal, team, or organization profile depends on your role or permissions.
Publish files
Publish any file you have can edit access to, including files in your drafts, teams, and any shared projects.
Anyone with edit access can also publish updates to the file. This includes updating the tags or description, and adding or removing creators.
Only team admins can publish to a team's profile, and only organization admins can publish to an organization's profile.
If you are a team or organization admin, you may be able to publish to more than one profile. You can select which profiles when you publish the file. Figma determines what profiles you can publish to based on the file's location and your role or permissions. Show me the permissions table ↓
Personal profile
Who can publish to a personal profile?
Anyone with a Figma account can create a personal profile. You can create one profile per Figma account (email address).
Anyone with can edit access to the file can publish that file to the Community.
If you have both personal and work Figma accounts, you can add connected profiles and publish to one profile across accounts.
Organization members
Organization admins are the only ones who can publish files and plugins from the organization space. You can only publish files in the organization to an organization profile.
If you are part of an organization, any files or plugins you create in the organization belong to the organization. You can only publish files from external teams.
You can connect your Community profile to your organization account to publish files and plugins from the external teams space to your profile.
Organization admins can choose to recognize an individual contributions by adding members to the file as a creator.
Should you leave, or be removed from the organization, you can disconnect your work account from your profile.
The organization can choose to add you as an editor to any specific Community files you contributed to. This allows you to be listed as a creator of that resource under your personal Community profile.
Team profiles
Who can publish to a team profile?
Only team owners and admins can publish files and plugins to a team profile.
Files have to be in that team to publish to the team's profile. If it is in your drafts or another team, you will need to move it to the correct team to publish it.
As part of the publishing process, team admins can add other contributors as creators. Creators need to be directly invited to the file with can view
or can edit
access. Learn more about being listed as a creator ↓
Note: Once the file is published to the Community, you won't be able to move it to another team. You can still move it between projects on the same team.
Organization profiles
Who can publish to an Organization profile?
Only organization admins can publish files or plugins to an organization profile.
If you're an organization admin, you can publish files and plugins to the organization's Community profile. To publish a file to the organization's profile, the file must:
- Be in the organization space (not a member's drafts or external teams)
- Not be in a secret team
- Not be moved between teams once published
Organization admins can add other contributors as creators when publishing. Creators need to be directly invited to the file with can view
or can edit
access. Learn more about being listed as a creator ↓
Note:There isn't currently a way to move files between the organization and the external team.
If you want to publish a file to the organization's profile, you will need to export the file from the external team. You can then import this as a new file in the organization. This won't include any comments or version history from the original file. Learn how to export .fig files →
Publish files or plugins
Publish any Figma plugins you've developed or files you want to share. Figma uses your role or permissions to determine which profiles you can publish files to. Use the tables below to see which profiles you can publish to based on the file's location.
Note: You only only publish a file if you have can edit
access to the file. You can still be listed as a creator if you have been invited to the original file with either can view
or can edit
access.
Drafts
File permission | Personal profile |
Can edit | ✓ |
Can view | ✕ |
Professional, Education, or Starter teams
Team permission | Team profile | Personal profile |
Admin | ✓ | ✓ |
Can edit | ✕ | ✓ |
Can view | ✕ | ✕ |
Organization
Note: It's not possible to publish to a personal profile within the organization space. We recommend you switch to your personal space or publish from a personal Figma account.
Organization
Account | Role | Team permission | Organization profile | Team profile | Personal profile |
Admin | Editor | Admin | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
Admin | Editor | Can edit | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
Admin | Viewer | Can view | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
Admin | Viewer-restricted | Can view | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
Member | Editor | Admin | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
Member | Editor | Can edit | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
Member | Viewer | Can view | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
Member | Viewer-restricted | Can view | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
External teams
Team permission | Organization profile | Team profile | Personal profile |
Team Admin | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
Editor | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
Creator contributions
If you've contributed to other files in the Community, and have a role on that file, you can also be added to the file as a creator.
Publishers can add any others contributors to the file as creators as part of the publishing process. Creators need to have explicit can view
or can edit
permissions on the file itself.
Every who is added as a creator will have the option to accept or decline the request. Figma will send you a notification in your account.
Figma will display accepted creators on the file's Community page, as well as include the file on each individual creator's profile.
If you have published to a team or organization profile, Figma will show the team or organization first, then any individual creators.
Note: If you only have access to the file based on your team permissions, you won't be included in the list of potential creators. If someone is missing from the list of creators, you will need to invite them to the file itself.
Organization role | Team permissions | File permission | Creator supported |
Editor | Can edit | - | ✕ |
Editor | Can edit | Can edit | ✓ |
Editor | Can view | - | ✕ |
Editor | Can view | Can view | ✓ |
Viewer | Can view | - | ✕ |
Viewer | Can view | Can view | ✓ |
Viewer restricted | Can view | - | ✕ |
Viewer restricted | Can view | Can view | ✕ |