Features

As noted in the overview, features are an abstraction on top of flags in Schematic used primarily to allow Schematic users to explicitly assign features to companies and set up entitlement-level policy. They can be on/off or metered (trait-based or event-based).

Ultimately, features should represent functionality that the business may market or sell.

All policy created at the feature level is reflected in the corresponding flag. You can see the associated flag and derived rules using the Flag tab within a Feature.

Currently, features and flags are one-to-one, but in the future more than one flag may be represented by one feature.

Setting up Features

Let’s add one feature to Schematic and entitle it to a plan.

1. Navigate to Features and click “Create”.
2. In the panel that opens, add a name and an optional description, then choose how you want to control access to the feature. For a metered feature like this one, pick Event-based.

3. Under Flag, set the flag key you’ll use in your application to reference this feature. Then, under Event, select or create the event that meters the feature’s usage (for example, a query event). Click Create feature to finish.

4. Open the new feature and click a plan (or Add plan entitlement) to set the limit for that plan, along with the period the entitlement resets on.