It would be amazing to be able to hide pages from stakeholders.
Even using Stars, all the design is visible for them, so why not enable the designer to only show some pages?
This way there is no need to do some complex “one page sharing” that may use symbols from another page, but only to hide “private” pages from stakeholders.
Thanks @leohans for opening a feature request for this. I had already asked about it last summer:
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Yes, yes, yes:-)
Now that we soonish need an InVision replacement for easy and fast client onboarding, this would be a great solution…
Copy artboards ready for client into a Client Page, save to shared workspace …done!
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@damiandmowski suggested on another topic:
Hey! I recently came across a new tool that’s a competitor to Sketch and Figma—creatie.ai . I spotted a couple of interesting ideas there, and one that stood out to me is how nice it would be to have a “Ready for dev” label when handing things off to developers. Or, even better, a feature to hide Artboards and tag them as “Draft.
What do you think? Do you think it’s possible to add something like that? In my experience, it’s always a bit tricky at the beginning when working with a copywriter/marketing/PR to finalize a project. There end up being so many versions, and later the devs often ask which Artboard is meant for them. I know I could create a separate Artboard to keep things organized, but I’d rather keep everything at my fingertips. Let me know if this makes sense!
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Hiding entire pages sounds like a very good place to start! Although we usually group our pages by feature (i.e. all components, organisms and screens for a given feature inside the same page), so the best would be to have control over individual symbols.
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Hey folks 
Thanks for sharing your ideas around sharing specific parts of a document. I understand that designers won’t always want to share an entire document with others, especially when you want their feedback scoped to a specific page or set of pages.
Sharing remains a big focus of the web team, and we continue to investigate new and improved ways of sharing design work and prototypes with people both inside and outside of your Workspaces.
The feedback in this thread, and the one @raulrincon shared above is really insightful, myself and the rest of the web team are following both 
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“especially when you want their feedback scoped to a specific page or set of pages.”
Moreover, granting access to the entire document allows them to view pages containing information they shouldn’t have access to.
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Currently, we have exploration/test pages in the same file as well as the final/approved designs. We would only like to share the approved designs for the development team and hide all other pages within the Sketch file. We were able to only push the approved designs to InVision. Thank You!
Hey @amafinejad
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the suggestion. I can’t make any projections or promises, but we’ll keep an eye on it and keep you posted if we know more.
Echoing Amir. The ability to hide pages from the prototype would make it so we’re not required to have two separate files for each project - Exploration and Final. This would be fantastic.
Hi there @ManaTee !
Welcome to the Forum and thanks for taking the time to post here!
This is already possible 
You can now share just the prototype! It’s really easy and you can do it from the Mac App or the Web app! Click here to see it in action!
On the Mac app, launch the Preview window and click on the Share icon, you’ll see the options to disable the toolbar
On the Web app, navigate to the Prototypes page and then click on the three dots icon to display the sharing options. Disable the toolbar and you’re good to go!
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I think the new option by hiding the toolbar and navigation is a good start.
Nevertheless in Invision it was possible to move between the pages with the < > keys, which is possible with Sketch only when viewing the artboards, but not in the prototype (here the < > keys work like back and forth in the browser)
This is something we have used very extinctively because sometimes you do not want to play through the whole prototype but just want to switch quickly to a screen a little bit later in the series.
A points that adds to that is, that with Invision it was possible to take a glance at an overview of all screens in the prorotype and quickly move to another point.
Basically those two features (overview, moving through) are based on the ability to decide which artboards you want to “release” for costumers and which should stay hidden as drafts. (I would apply this to artboards and not pages)
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve added it as a Feature Request. Currently this type of navigation is available on Sketch prototypes after you’ve played the prototype, like some type of “history”. You are able to navigate back and forth with the keyboard arrows through screens you have previously played but I can clearly see the benefits of this being always available.
I’ve created a Suggest an Idea post so others can vote for it if they like it 
Thank you for creating this Feature Request. Our main objective here is to simply share the approved screens/prototype and HIDE all other pages in Sketch which contain exploratory content. Thanks!
The ability to hide the pages as shown in the example you had provided would be wonderful. However, I wonder if that is particular to roles/permissions?
Is it possible to do this while giving the users a single access point to all the prototypes we invite them to as guests?
In the example you had provided I am assuming I am a public user. I was not able to replicate the restricted view as you had. The guests I had invited (via email) were still able to access the pages/navigation even having the ability to check or uncheck those very same options on their end. It doesn’t just launch them into the prototype like you had shown. It takes them to what you had shown in the 2nd and 3rd image and then they have to click “Prototypes” or the play button to then launch the prototype.
Are there certain rules/permissions/roles/settings that need to be set in order to replicate what you had demonstrated?
Hi @Erick,
Welcome to the Forum! It’s great to have you here! Sorry about the belated reply.
About your question, the new sharing options are a setting of the Prototype Player, rather than a permission. I’ll try to summarize it, here we go:
If you are a Guest:
- You’ll have access to the whole document
- You’ll always be able to see everything related to that document: artboards, assets and prototypes
- You can add / remove settings for prototype playback: show/hide hotspots, zoom level and show or hide the toolbar
If you are a Viewer
You’ll have access to the same settings as a Guest, plus all shared documents in the Workspace you’re a Guest in
So, how to share just the prototype?
If it’s a public document, share just the prototype player link, the one you get from the Prototype’s page:
I’d love to hear your feedback on this Erick, and I hope this is useful.
Cheers!
Apologies on the delay to my response. Thank you for the description and helpful feedback.
I think that is the issue here is that we want to give our teams or internal people access (as guests) to several prototypes, but don’t want them to have access to the rest of our pages within the workspace document.
As an internal team it would be nice to,
- Have a repository of all the prototypes given access to
- Only have access to the content that matters (i.e. not having to search around for which pages to access the prototypes within the document, cutting out the ‘noise’)
This would provide us the ability to not have to worry about what they see, streamlining our process (so we don’t have to create separate files just for prototypes), as well as helping them see just what they need.
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Hi Erick,
No worries, thanks for the feedback. I see it clearly now. The part that we’re missing is to separate somehow prototypes from the document’s pages.
Currently, documents and prototypes are bundled together so when you share with someone as a Guest, their entry point will be the document, not the prototype. I think that’s the missing piece.
You can provide a single access point to Guests by sharing with them Project folders instead of single documents, but when they sign into their accounts, the documents they see will take them to the Canvas view, where they’ll see all pages and artboards.
I’ve added this you the feature request, thanks again 
Here would be some other alternatives that would be helpful:
- Remove the top left home icon and “Back to” button from the toolbar to limit access to curious people from going into areas that have discarded drafts and WIPs
- The ability to select the prototypes we want to group together to present as a single link (Invision feature) while also preserving a dropdown to navigate within that group of prototypes
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I merged the two topics. The thread might be a bit confusing to read now, but at least all the votes are in one place.
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