# What do these broken hot dog icons mean?

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**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [July 28, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-do-these-broken-hot-dog-icons-mean/49265 "2025-07-28T12:44:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![bruce](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/bruce/32/23155_2.png) [@bruce](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/bruce)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-do-these-broken-hot-dog-icons-mean/49265/1 "2025-07-28T12:44:02Z")

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**Author:** ![maxken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maxken](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/maxken)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-do-these-broken-hot-dog-icons-mean/49265/2 "2025-07-28T16:12:46Z")

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It means that the component is part of and is linked to a global. If you right click the component it can be unlinked from its global. When a component is _linked_ to its global then changes to that component will also affect other instances of the global. When the component is _unlinked_ from its global then changes will only affect that specific component.

Hope that makes sense!

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**Author:** ![bruce](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/bruce/32/23155_2.png) [@bruce](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/bruce)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-do-these-broken-hot-dog-icons-mean/49265/3 "2025-07-28T17:02:08Z")

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Thanks @maxken. It is a bit confusing. So I guess in this case the Footer is the Global, and the Flex and Text are linked to the Footer Global. And when I look at my other Globals, I see linked components inside them too. OK, this helps me understand.

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**Author:** ![maxken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maxken](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/maxken)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-do-these-broken-hot-dog-icons-mean/49265/4 "2025-07-29T02:43:58Z")

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> [@bruce](#):
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> So I guess in this case the Footer is the Global, and the Flex and Text are linked to the Footer Global.

Yes, that’s the way I understand it’s designed to behave. Unlinking a component within a global isolates it from changes made to other instances of that global and other instances of that global are not affected by changes to the unlinked component.