# How to hide certain boards from playing prototype?

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/how-to-hide-certain-boards-from-playing-prototype/8223>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/how-to-hide-certain-boards-from-playing-prototype/8223 "2025-03-21T13:40:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![TRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@TRM](https://community.penpot.app/u/TRM)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/how-to-hide-certain-boards-from-playing-prototype/8223/1 "2025-03-21T13:40:03Z")

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Hi,

I have two boards in my page, a main board and a sidebar:

 ![Image1](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/4/4f470fb2ec681cc86eb2c881e53019777fd75076.png)

On the main board on the left edge there is a small icon component. I added an action to it.  
If the user clicks this icon the sidebar slides in from left to right.  
So far everything works well.

But if I click the play button to run the prototype the sidebar is displayed at first:

 ![Image2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/1/124fd6728f1c17db33a12c0373c453057ef4b203.png)

This is not what I want. The sidebar should never appear as separate board / page  
The main board should appear at first.  
Only if the user clicks the small ‘sidebar open’ icon, the sidebar should slide in.

What I need to change to get there?

Thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![madalenam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/madalenam/32/4024_2.png) [@madalenam](https://community.penpot.app/u/madalenam)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/how-to-hide-certain-boards-from-playing-prototype/8223/2 "2025-03-24T11:28:38Z")

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Hi @TRM,

You can prevent a board from being displayed separately in View mode by clicking on the board in the canvas and deselecting the option “Show in view mode”.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/penpot/original/2X/9/963a56aa6e8c1229d5eacff2b1ada126e1bd6655.png)

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**Author:** ![TRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@TRM](https://community.penpot.app/u/TRM)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/how-to-hide-certain-boards-from-playing-prototype/8223/3 "2025-03-25T11:25:50Z")

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@madalenam:

Great that helped!

Thanks for reply!

BTH: can I mark this thread as ‘Solved’ or ‘Solution’ somehow?