👉 Configuring a Feature Toggle/Flag

📖 Definition

A Feature Toggle/Flag lets you enable or disable a feature or a group of features depending on a specific audience.
It allows you to easily and safely release your features.

⚙️ Configuration

To configure a Feature Toggle/Flag, apply the following steps: 

1. From the dashboard, click Create a use case.
2. Select the Feature Toggling template.
   
   [Basic information]
   
3. Enter the name of your feature and its description.
4. Choose the primary and secondary KPIs you want to follow.
5. Click Save and continue.
   
   [Scenarios]
6. Define your scenarios: edit the name of your first scenario.
7. Configure your scenarios by defining the group of users who will see each scenario (for more information, refer to the article about Targeting configuration) and by defining their flag's name, type (text, number, boolean, array, or object), and value.
   
   

   ⭐ Good to know

   By default, one scenario appears. But you can ass as many as you want by clicking Add scenario.

8. Click Save and continue.
   
   [Overview]
9. Check that every step has been configured correctly.
10. (Optional) Notify your teammates that the Feature Toggle/Flag is ready to go.

💡 Use case

Let’s say you have developed two new payment features: one for mobile devices and one for desktop. Before releasing them, you want to test them to early adopter users to see if the features fit the original need. In addition, you want to know what their usage rate would be.

In this case, you can create a Feature Toggling:

1. Create a Feature Toggling use case on your Flagship account.
2. Choose the KPI you want to follow. Here, you can select the KPI related to a click on the “Proceed to checkout” button. You need to have configured it in your codebase beforehand.
3. Select conversion rate as a sub KPI type. 
4. In the scenarios step, define two scenarios: one that enables the feature on desktop and one on mobile devices. On each, configure the flag that will enable the new payment method:
   
   
5. Check the overview of your Feature Toggle.
6. Save and activate your use case via the dashboard.

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