Renaming a screen

Learn how to rename a screen in Zeplin

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Written by Okan
Updated over a week ago

If you need to rename a screen in your Zeplin project, you can do this right from Zeplin or by re-exporting the screen from your design tool.

💁‍♀️ Zeplin has a 100-character limit for screen names. If your artboard name has more than 100 characters in your design tool, it’ll be trimmed to 100 characters in Zeplin when you export your artboard into a Zeplin project.

Renaming a screen on the Zeplin Mac app

You can rename a screen from the Zeplin Mac app by right-clicking the screen on the project dashboard and selecting the "Rename Screen" option:

Renaming a screen on the Zeplin Web and Windows apps

If you’re using Zeplin’s Web or Windows apps, you can click the name of the screen on the project dashboard to rename it. After typing the new name, press the “Enter” key to save it.

Renaming the screen via design tools

You can rename a screen by changing its name in your design tool and re-exporting it to Zeplin. To prevent creating a new screen in Zeplin, make sure to select the “Update Screens By > Corresponding Artboard in <design tool>” option under the settings button on the export panel before exporting.

💁‍♀️ You can learn more about the other options on the export panel to update a screen from here.

On Figma, you can do this from the Figma plugin’s settings by clicking on the “…” button.

💁‍♀️ You can learn more about the Figma plugin settings here.

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