Flags

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 modal, add a name, description, and pick the event-based feature type. Click “Continue”.

3. Define a flag key.
   1. You’ll use this key in your application to reference this feature.

4. Attach an event to the feature. Add the query event to meter the feature and measure feature usage (if it doesn’t exist already, create it).

5. Once the feature is created, click ”Add plan entitlement” to add an entitlement and specify the limit for Search Query for a given plan.