Community Suggestion: Toggle Prompts Visibility on Edit Page
Toggle Prompts Visibility on Edit Page
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by Max Kilms
accepted
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Create a means to change which prompts are visible on the Edit Page, based on the template for the article. Make this customizable, so I can select Template A, and choose to display only specific Prompts. Furthermore, enable a setting on each article where each prompt is saved in its ON (visible) or OFF (not visible) position. So, If I choose to display a prompt (or not display) for a specific article, the system will remember that choice indefinitely. By example, if I select Prompt "Sidebar Section" > "Sidebar Bottom" and toggle it OFF for the Building template, then all building articles default to OFF. However, if I change that for just one article, say Building X, to set Building X to Sidebar Bottom ON, then every time I open Building X in edit mode, the Sidebar Bottom is ON (while other buildings remains OFF).How does this feature request address the current situation?
It is possible, this issue is a bug (but I cannot find the bug report), and what I am describing is already the programmers intention; however, that is not how it works today. Currently, all Prompts are ON (by default), meaning all prompt sections are displayed in the Edit mode, making for an extremely long template. This applies to all articles. I am unable to permanently turn any Prompt OFF. While I can toggle it while in Edit Mode, once I am done editing the article and leave it, the changed setting does not save. So, when I return to the same article later, it is ON again. Therefore there is no practical use in turning any Prompt OFF, since the system just reverts to ON.What are other uses for this feature request?
I am finding editing articles in the new interface very challenging because of lag. Since the change a couple days ago, when all prompts defaulted to ON (they didn't used to be), every article loads, updates, and saves very slowly in Edit Mode. This is lag that never used to happen, and I have been using Google Chrome with World Anvil for a couple years. So, I suspect the effort to load all prompts is impacting the resources for Chrome and causing significant lag. Lastly, of all websites, World Anvil in Edit Mode is the only place I consistently experience serious lag (using Chrome).Follow up
Thanks to Those2Nerds, I found the Enable/Disable Prompts on the Features menu. So it is good there is a global setting. I recommend there be a template-level setting for prompts, where each user, for each world, can predefine which prompts are ON or OFF for each template within the world, so that users can define which prompts they want available for each template (for existing and new articles). I think it would be satisfactory if the functionality would be that when a user goes into any article (based on a template), and toggles a Prompt, it simply applies to all articles using the same template. This way, there are no additional buttons or complexity that anyone has to learn. If a user goes into Edit Mode and turns ON "date of birth" for Character X, then all characters (X, Y, Z, etc.) all have "date of birth" activated when editing. Furthermore, how would I use this feature? Currently, I take notes to remind myself what information I want captured for each template. This is extra note-taking outside of the tool. By enabling this template-based prompt functionality, I would no longer have to keep outside notes. I can just bring up a new article, and the fields which I have previously enables (are ON), would display in Edit Mode, and I know instantly what information I wanted to capture for each character (as a minimum). This would be greatly advantageous for improving how quickly and efficiently I build each article.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! This is already planned for a future update because we think it would be a cool feature to have! Don't expect it any time soon, but it's planned.
Current score
9/300 Votes · +2101 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by A Filthy Kobold
on 2025-11-22 16:11 -
+300
by bphilippe
on 2025-11-20 06:52 -
+300
by ss2020
on 2025-11-15 02:01This has been asked in various ways and been denied. I am still 10,000% for this though. It would be great even if we could do this we had to use the existing template system.
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+100
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2025-11-14 15:12 -
+100
by yatenari
on 2025-11-12 20:05 -
+300
by WeStanNikolai
on 2025-11-12 18:14I would love it if I could predetermine which prompts show up when creating a new article of a specific template! I constantly forget my own "editorial standards" for specific article types.
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+100
by JoellaKay
on 2025-11-12 17:51I'm not sure how it would look in the UI (I mean the for all articles of this type vs this article only) and it might be too much of a performance/database it, but this would be nice to have. I would certainly use it.
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+300
by Comic Book Lady
on 2025-11-12 14:11 -
+1
by Those2Nerds
on 2025-11-12 14:02You're seeing all prompts because you previously enabled the feature to show them all in the old interface. Go to your features menu to disable this (account button at the top right, Features). Then use +prompts to enable only prompts you want, or the double-checkmark to enable all for that article. Unused ones will be automatically removed when you close the article. That said, it would be nice if we could choose prompts we always want enabled, like if we always want to use date of birth on characters. Something like that might already be planned.
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+300
by Max Kilms
on 2025-11-12 06:57
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