over 6 years ago from Steven Trevathan, Designer
Symbols are great for editing in one place and seeing the change ripple across that one file, but what about when you need that change to be reflected in many sketch files for one application?
What do you do?
Looks like it will be a sketch feature:
At SalesLoft we've been experimenting with Craft Library. So far it seems like a good solution for very common components that have several nested symbols—buttons, form fields, icons and colors.
I do find it a bit annoying having to manually import the pieces of that component I need. Invision peeps, if you're reading this, consider an option to auto-add all Craft Library items to the symbols page. Perhaps, this could just be a button?
+1 on this. I've used craft in a few project but I use a lot of nested symbols and they don't all carry over when importing one component so it would be better to import the whole library every at once.
Until Sketch supports native Cloud Libraries every solution will be a risky-bet or comes with work-arounds. We tried Craft Library (with shared dropbox folder) but it is not easy to use; We tried Brand AI (better to use, but other limitations like fixed Categories to sort Assets into)
Right now we just hope that Sketch 44 brings this as a native feature… :-/
Appreciate this, Johannes! I've been using Craft but didn't realize it provided such an option. I'll have to dig deeper into this and checkout Brand AI
Yeah the shared components feature is OK. It starts to break down if multiple people change the same component or if you're using complex nested symbols.
I recommend having one sketch file , set editing privileges to one or two people and making sure they are the 'guardians' of the file - everyone else can duplicate and create a new page from there.
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