Hello. In my project A I would like to link collection from another file B. When I do that all objects that are hidden in file B appear visible in project A. I tried to tweak eye icons (hide in viewport) and render icons (disable in renders) and those checkboxes (exclude from view layer) but still visible.
In file B I created complex object in its own collection. Then I instanced that collection and made an array out of that instance. Instance itself is hidden so I see only the array of instances. All looks good here.
In file A i want to link the collection from file B with the array of instances.
It shows up ok but those original instances are visible here although in file B they are turned hidden in viewport and also disabled in renders.
I have read some years ago that this was declared as a bug but still it seems unsolved or I do something wrong?
Thanks a lot
No your not doing it wrong. But you can use “disable in viewport” until its fixed.
Hello !
This is what you need to uncheck so these objects stay hidden when linked :
The eye icon and exclude from viewlayer are local and won’t propagate when linked.
The eye is meant to quickly hide show stuff when working ( using H / Alt-H shortcut) , the screen icon is a more “permanent” hide .
Hum, I don’t think so, at least this is how it’s supposed to work, even if I agree that it can be a bit confusing…
I see less icons there, no arrow and no monitor, although last Blender 3.6… wtf? 
Here.
Sorry, I just wrote that short cause I thought you knew about the toggles in principle. These constraint toggles are as @goorman demoed also located in the filter dropdown menu along with the filters and some other settings. Some toggles are hidden to make the UI simpler, but you can make the change in a new scene in the outliner and save the change to the startup file under File ->Defaults. While it looks similar to “hide in viewport” “disable in viewport” does in fact a bit more as the obj is really deactivated that way and no longer a processed part of the viewlayer. There was a discussion about visibility in linked files, but i would have to reread it for what the final decision was.