Duplicate Styles instead of Overriding them

[Qarah]

I have an issue considering widget styles.

I am working for a company that holds different brands, so my plan was to build one prototype and two different widget libraries (one for each brand).

What I did (to test, if this idea actually works) was to build a small library for Brand-A with a hand full of widgets and styles. I also build a very basic Prototype that uses these widget and styles. Then I duplicated the Brand-A Library, changed the color scheme and called it Brand-B. When I go now to my prototype I can swap easily between the color schemes (just need to “import from RP file” and select the respective library.

So far everything is fine.

Now I continued to work on the Prototype and the Brand-A Library. I created a lot more styles in this Brand-A library and applied them (always via “Import from RP file”) in my prototype. My problem now is, that when I try to ADD these new styles from the Brand-A to the Brand-B Library and then try to change the color theme in my prototype it just duplicates the styles (I then have two “Copy_100” in my prototype - one for each brand), instead of overriding them (changing the existing “Copy_100” from Brand-A to Brand-B).

It does not seem to matter whether I import them from the one to the other library or if I create them with the exact same name in both libraries. The only way that seems to work is to COPY-PASTE the whole Brand-A Library, change ALL the styles and name this copy “Brand-B”. But it is not an option to change ALL styles, every time I want to add a new Widget/Style to both libraries.

To me this feels like a bug. I am happy to go any other way, as long as I don’t have to redefine ALL styles just to add a new one.

[mbc66]

Take a look at this recent thread for some possible solutions and approaches.

Maintaining a single prototype for multiple versions

Hi everyone, Our client has a co-branded product (which we built and for which we are using Axure to prototype) and they use this product with different companies across the country. Some of the screens show the partner company’s logo or their multiple locations. So we started making different .rp files for the different partner companies - for e.g., one .rp for ACME1, one .rp for ACME 2 where we add label fields or the company’s logo on top of the other layers. The problem is when we make a ch…

[Qarah]

That does not exactly cover my issue. Switching between the brands on a functional level is not the issue. Or let’s say I found different ways to cover this via a global “brandVAR”. But as the brands have a completely different theme (different fonts, different CI), I have to go via libraries.

BUT: I played around even more this morning, and when I delete all styles from the widget style manager of my prototype BEFORE Importing all styles from one of the two libraries it works. No matter if the widget/style was in the widget library from the very beginning or if I added is way later to the library.

It does not feel as if this is intended by Axure (at least it feels scary to delete all styles), but I am fine with this workaround.