Linked Component Not Updating

Had this issues as well. A main component with nested components. The fix:

1. select nested component (that isn't updating) within the main component
2. Right click > update main state

This solved my issues.

Once again, Xd has yet ANOTHER bug that STILL hasn't been addressed after being reported by customers for YEARS. Adobe's after-sales support is ABYSMAL, but Xd is particularly bad—it's just not fit for purpose, particularly compared to their other apps.

As for a workaround, try right-clicking on the component on the Document Assets panel on the left, select Make Local, then hit Ctrl+Z to undo. I've found that the blue Update button then appears at the bottom of the panel.

My other solution: DITCH XD AND USE FIGMA INSTEAD. 

I still have this issue. When I update a component nothing happens. Is this something that should be fixed?

It is now October 2020 and this bug is still alive and kicking. Thoroughly annoying. I just spent considerable time preparing a set of icons in a separate document because, you know, 1.5 years ago this feature was actually working and none of my documents using instances will update. I dont even get an update pop up. Close and reopen documents doesn't help either. And we're paying through the nose for these apps. What gives.

Update bug is known. Would be nice if someone from Adobe team would give us some info about fixing status...

Solutions:

• for some works smash update all or right-mouseclick on single component > update
• for others, reinstall (if none, even single component doesn't update)
• sometimes you need to do small change in source file (in component library) and re-save file
• in my case, somehow I wasn't able to update one of a locally modified (width) components. Had to reset all modified instances - lucky me, had only 9 instances where it was used

I uninstalled Xd, then re-installed it and the components updated okay. Sometimes I just have to smash the "update" button over and over like I'm playing Mario Party before it'll work as well.

I had the same problem, solved, but the solution wasn´t satisfatory for me.

Scenario

I have a component in the cloud with all states of a text field (inactive, focused, activated, error and disabled). In the same component, I have all states of a dropdown too, like inactive, opened with hover on all options (it is another component inside the main component), etc. After an improvement, the link stopped working in the another project.

Workarounds that doesn´t work
1. I tried to reset to master state;

2. I tried to click in the plus icon in assets and click in the document on cloud to try to relink;

3. I tried to copy and paste the component again;

4. I tried to click in the blue link icon than click update in the flyout menu;

5. I tried to sign out of Adobe XD and Creative Cloud and sign back in;

6. I made a local copy of the cloud project, deleted it from cloud, put it on cloud again and relink;

XD version
27.2.12.4 - Creative Cloud sync 4.3.28.24
I´m a Windows user (with the last update)

Solution
Ungroup the component with hover inside the main/hibrid component text field.

Maybe the problem in this case isn´t the update but the the difficulty of adobe XD dealing with nested components. I spent 4 hours to reach that conclusion. Soooo time consuming... and unsatisfactory at all.

Hello!

I've been having this trouble lately myself and after some fiddling around I found a solution that almost worked for me. No idea if this will work for anyone else as I've only just had this one partial success which resulted in a slightly different problem. 🙂

I've been assembling a decently sized styleguide that has just grown a wee bit more complex due to my enthusiasm for the new component states feature. I create new components in this styleguide file and create hi-fidelity mocks in another couple of files. Recently, after making changes to the master components in the styleguide, I found that it was impossible to update the components in the mocks file. I'd click the Update All button, it would flash, but nothing would happen. I'd right click on the component in the asset library but again, nothing would happen. 

During one troubleshooting sequence, I noticed that upon reopening XD and reopening the styleguide file, it immediately started saving. I guessed that it was possible that the original change in the component hadn't entirely completed. So I let that save finish, then altered the default state in the component a small amount, just to get a change registered. I let XD save again. After that, I opened up the mocks file, pushed the Update All button and, after a moment, the update went through!

I thought my troubles were over, but a new problem arose... while inside the mocks file, I was now unable to drag the new component from the asset library onto the canvas. Dragging other components to the canvas also failed to work. After restarting and fiddling around, I found that I could drag other elements into the canvas, but as soon as I tried to drag the component which previously failed to update, nothing was able to be added to the canvas. 

I went into the styleguide file and found that everything worked just fine there, so I'm thinking there is an issue with an impartially complete update from one file to another through the linked assets feature. 

I'm still working on this, so if anyone has any ideas on what might be going on, I would love to hear them. I'll update here if I find out anything new.

Try right-click on the component not getting updated and select the option of Edit Master in Source Document and then edit it and check if it gets updated.