My content creators are not happy with the Prismic preview experience. I was hoping that the page builder would improve things, but the live slice previews are so incredibly small! How are you even supposed to read the text on the slices as you edit them?
I wish Prismic had just gone with a full page preview in an iframe like other CMS use, so you can see the whole page changing live. At least give the live slice previews half the page real estate, and don't restrict the container size so much so there's more room to see everything. This is a tool, there should be plenty of room to spread out your work and visualize everything.
Also the fact that document relationships are not supported makes it almost useless to me. Nearly every slice on our page has some kind of CTA that relies on a document link.
Hi Pete, thanks for the feedback. We agree with you on both and we have items on our roadmap to render slices with content relationship fields and to make the slice previews bigger. They will most likely be landing in Q2 of this year but we'll update this thread when we have more precise ETAs.
It's the middle of the year now. Are there any updates on this? My team is considering adopting Prismic, but our non-developers would really prefer a better experience in this regard.
@guy.proops Should have been more specific. I was referring to the small amount of screen real estate given to the page builder currently (the original topic of the thread). Are there any updates on making those previews bigger, as mentioned earlier in this thread?
One alternative my team is looking at is Builder.io, and the easy-to-see visual page builder is one of the main advantages it seems to have over Prismic right now. The non-developers on my team would find page editing much more efficient if they could more easily see the effects of their changes in real time.
Hey @josh.klope , we have worked on a PoC with larger slices and a slice focus mode but nothing will be shipped at this stage. It is most likely that the first step will be an improvement to the full-page Prismic preview and then some iteration on the slice previews. I don't have a firm timeline for these initiatives but we would like to address both before the end of the year.
I'll update this thread when I have more concrete information.
Hiya!
We're interesting in this as well. In our case we're curious about the ability to render it with a smaller sized window, therefore rendering the slices in more of a mobile view, which would probably help with readability. Curious to see what comes on offer!
