CMS: Controlling Live Site Item Visibility from Your Collection
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You can hide items from appearing on your live site directly from your collection. Go to your collection settings to enable the Control item visibility toggle. Then control the status of individual items by setting them to Visible or Hidden. You can also choose the default status of newly added items and schedule automatic changes to their statuses.
In this article, learn about:
Enabling the collection setting to control item visibility
To set items as visible, hidden, or to schedule a change, go to your collection settings and enable the Control item visibility toggle. Then choose whether new items should be set as visible or hidden by default.
After enabling this feature, your collection includes a new Status field. In that field, you can set the status of each item in the collection and schedule future changes to the statuses.
To control item visibility from your collection:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS
in your Editor. - Click the relevant collection.
- Click More Actions at the top and select Collection settings.
- Enable the Control item visibility toggle.
- Choose the default status for new items:
- Visible: New collection items can be visible on your live site if the elements are properly connected to a dataset that binds to your collection.
- Hidden: New collection items are hidden from your live site as they cannot be read by datasets.
- Click Save.
Changing item statuses to "Visible" or "Hidden"
In your collection, click the status field to change it to "Visible" or "Hidden" for the relevant items:
- Visible items: Can appear on your live site as long as the elements are properly connected to a dataset that binds to your collection.
- Hidden items: Cannot be read by datasets so they cannot be used on your live site.
To change the status of an item:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS in your Editor.
- Click the relevant collection.
- Click the Status field for the relevant item.
- Select Visible or Hidden.
Scheduling changes to item visibility
You can schedule an item to be visible or hidden at a date and time of your choice.
To schedule a visibility status change:
- Go to CMS in your site's dashboard. Alternatively, you can click CMS in your Editor.
- Click the relevant collection.
- Click the Status field for the relevant item.
- Click Schedule.
- Select the date and time in which the item's status will change. The date and time is based on the time zone set for your site.
- Click Schedule.
FAQs
Click below for answers to common questions about controlling collection item visibility.
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