What should default preview display?

[aloxe]

I would like to share some thought about the way the default Preview shows the page rendering as we write.

The page may have a few meta data that are editable but are not meant to be rendered in the final result. To me it does not make sense to display taxonomy fields or template names in the preview.

Don't you think they could be hidden or maybe only available under a "Meta" block that could be expanded under the preview block?

I am not talking about a custom preview (#153) but a default behaviour of the preview block that should mainlly help you see your final result without polution from meta data.

The screenshot bellow may sum up my thoughts:

I see two possible options with reaching that goal:

• display only Title and Body on the preview pane, stick the rest under a drop down
• allow the user to hide some firlds from the preview with a preview: "hidden" option in the config.yml

What do you think?

[kyoshino]

It’s hard to find it in the README but you can already hide a field preview with preview: false 🙂

[aloxe]

Wow this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

[kyoshino]

And in the (near) future I’ll work on a tabbed user interface so you can split metadata from content. Here are the relevant Netlify/Decap CMS issues:

• UI: Differenciate metadata from content in preview decaporg/decap-cms#908
• tabbed interface for fields decaporg/decap-cms#1484
• Form splitting into tabs decaporg/decap-cms#1759