I’m sure many people, including myself, love the new Webflow update. Best one in a while.
However, I am confused about why the variables such as color are inaccessible from the interactions tab. Seems like it could have been an oversite during this massive overhaul.
It’s particularly tedious to exit the interactions tab, open up the variables page, copy the HEX number, and return to the interactions tab anytime I want to create interactions with color changes.
Has anyone else experienced this? Go ahead and leave a reply below if you have also experienced this issue, and hopefully, this will bring it to the attention of the Webflow dev team who will address it in the next patch.
I was going to ask this same question. It’s extremely annoying especially having to update those values if your variable changes.
Many things are wrong with this update but that one is huge.
Plus the Variables page should not be full screen. Why are there no tabs in the variables page? I understand how folders work with ‘/’ but it would be nice to not have them all jumbled but could just click on the size tab to see all size variables or the color tab etc,.
Edit* - We should be able to close the variable folders we create.
I love the power of variables and spline integration but so many things from a uxui perspective has been overlooked or not even tested.
I am also facing a similar problem and am very troubled by it.
I can select the Variable created with the ‘interactions>Global variables>Set variable value’ property, but is this irrelevant?
Yes, I’ve just noticed this. I wanted to use a text colour change during an interaction, but I am unable to select the colour variable I need. Strange, considering that you used to be able to select swatches.
I’m also really disappointed to find that it’s no longer possible to select variables (swatches) to set colors in interactions. This feels like a huge oversight and a huge problem. My site relies on a few variables to set the color scheme across the board, and I’m no longer able to do this and instead have to update every interaction’s color values manually. Extremely disappointing considering this used to work flawlessly.
I take that back… I saw in the documentation that supposedly this works as intended now. I wasn’t seeing that reflected in my design, it was still not properly updating the colors when I would change the variables. But I went through each interaction and re-selected the color variable I wanted it to reference and now it seems to be working. So I think I just needed to re-link everything.
Sharing this in case it might help anyone else who is having trouble. :)