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How to Make Pieces in Your Collections Public or Private

Control whether your Collections and the Pieces within them appear on your Artwork Archive Public Profile.

In Artwork Archive, you can make Collections of the pieces in your inventory and then display those Collections on your Public Profile.


How to Make Your Collections Public

  1. Navigate to the My Profile in your left-side menu of your dashboard

  2. Click the Profile Settings tab at the top of the page

  3. Scroll down and expand the section titled Page & Piece Order

  4. Toggle on to enable "Show collections"

    Public Settings page in Artwork Archive with the Page & Piece Order section and Show collections toggle highlighted.

How to Make All Pieces Within a Collection Public

  1. Navigate to the My Profile in your left-side menu of your dashboard

  2. Click Public Pieces at the top

  3. Filter for a Collection with the drop-down menu in your Public Pieces

  4. Click the blue Make all works public button

    Manage Your Public Profile page in Artwork Archive with the copy icon highlighted next to the Public Profile URL field.

How to Hide a Collection from Your Public Profile (But Keep the Pieces Public)

Say you want the Pieces within a Collection to be public, but don’t want a Collection to show up on your Public Profile. Here's what to do:

  1. Navigate to the Artwork tab > Collections on the left-side menu of your dashboard

  2. Navigate to the Collection you want to edit > click Edit

  3. Check the box that says Hide collection name on public profile (pieces in the collection can still be public).

    1. When you check this box, your works will still appear on your Public Profile if you have marked them as public. However, the Collection itself will be hidden under the Collections tab of your Public Profile.

Did you know?

You can hide a Collection from your Public Profile if you use Collections for your own internal management and don’t want viewers to see Collections.

A few other things to note:

  • Hiding your Collection Name will not affect your Collections internally in your Artwork Archive account.

  • Individual piece views and embeds of Collections will still register the Collection name.


How to Remove the Collections Tab from Your Public Profile

If you do not want to have the Collections tab appear at all on your Public Profile, you have the option to remove it.

  1. Navigate to My Profile on the left-side menu of your account dashboard

  2. Click the Profile Settings tab at the top

  3. Scroll down to Page & Piece Order (expand menu)

  4. Deselect the Show collections toggle

    Page & Piece Order settings in Artwork Archive with the Show collections toggle highlighted.

Example of adding or removing the Collections tab from your Public Profile

Public Profile menu with the Collections tab added, shown next to a version without it

Side menu view comparison

Public Profile top navigation with the Collections tab added, shown next to a version without it

Top menu view comparison

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