Hiding patterns with an underscore, but still being able to access the pattern with includes

[theorise]

According to the docs, if you append an underscore (_) to the pattern name it should "no longer show up in the drop-down navigation, the media pattern sub-type "view all" page, nor the style guide".

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I want to hide a pattern from the drop-down and the 'view all', however I still want to use the pattern as an include, and for the patterns using it to be displayed (as they have no underscore in their file name/parent folder name).

If I try this, the builder will just tell me that the pattern is missing 'Could not find pattern with key atoms-$'.

[bmuenzenmeyer]

I've seen use cases for this too. It should definitely be considered.
@dmolsen does PL PHP handle this as theorise suggests?

[dmolsen]

@bmuenzenmeyer -

Yes. It's borked in PL2 but @theorise is correct in his interpretation. PL2 also supports a dash at the beginning of a file name to denote "show in the pattern drop down but don't show in the 'view all' views."

[bmuenzenmeyer]

Nice - thanks for additional information.

[geoffp]

Oh wow -- I didn't even know I wanted this feature, but I do. Our "view
all" is horrifyingly broken by multiple patterns that use fixed positioning.

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[bmuenzenmeyer]

Yeah the more I think about this the more it makes a ton of sense. I do this on an internal instance of Pattern Lab with some base patterns that get parameterized downstream. The bases are pretty useless when used like this..

I'll get this in asap, per strong feedback!

[bradfrost]

Hey @geoffp,

Our "view all" is horrifyingly broken by multiple patterns that use fixed positioning.

The way I deal with that stuff is to override the styles in styleguide-specific.scss. From the comments at the top of the file:

This stylesheet is for styles you want to include only when the interface is being viewed within Pattern Lab.
This is helpful for displaying demo styles for grids, animations, color swatches, etc
It's also helpful for overriding context-specific styles like fixed or absolutely positioned elements
These styles will not be your production CSS.

[bmuenzenmeyer]

Internal Note

Odd that this code does not appear to be functioning? There are no unit tests on the front-end menu generation, it's years old and 💩

Update
was missing an additional check. Too tired to find it tonight

[bmuenzenmeyer]

@dmolsen I assume it should however be accessible via lineage links?

[bmuenzenmeyer]

This is live in dev branch and will close automatically when it reaches master.