Disable webpage previews for a Collection

Last modified: November 27th, 2025

Permissions required

Members of the Owners, Developers, and Technical Editors Default Permission Groups, or Custom Permission Groups with the site:source-editor:write and site:file:write permissions, can edit your CloudCannon Configuration File. You can limit permission to specific files using file globs.

An output URL is the URL your SSG outputs your files to during a Site build. CloudCannon automatically determines the output URL to match a webpage preview to a file for the Visual Editor and screenshots in the Collection Browser.

You can disable this behavior for any Collection if you do not want CloudCannon to attempt to generate webpage previews.

If you disable the output URL for a Collection, files from that Collection will not be visible in the Visual Editor, or have screenshots in the Collection Browser, even if you have a template string configured for the Collection.

These instructions assume you want to build your Site, and have already grouped your files into Collections.

To disable webpage previews for a Collection:

Navigate to the Collection for which you want to disable webpage previews.
Turn on Configuration Mode using the switch on the right of the Site Header. Purple Edit Configuration buttons will appear in the Collection Browser.
Click the Edit Advanced in the top right of the Collection Browser. CloudCannon will open the Edit Advanced data panel.
Identify the Disable URL checkbox and ensure it is ticked.
Save the change to your Site.

CloudCannon will automatically rebuild your Site.

A screenshot of the Collection Browser shows the Edit Advanced data panel open with a text field for URL configuration.

The disable_url key does not determine whether your SSG will output a Collection.