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Is there a UI for enabling/disabling feature flags? #10477


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gep13 created

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Within the ASPNETZERO application, there are some built in feature flags that can be enabled/disabled, and we have also extended this to include some of our own feature flags for certain pieces of functioanlity.

At the minute, it is necessary to directly go into the database to toggle these features on/off.

Am I missing something, or is there a UI somewhere that can be shown to turn features on/off?

Thanks Gary


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    musa.demir created

    Hi @gep13

    Which table is it? AbpFeatures table has any coloumn that you can use to on/off.

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    gep13 created

    Hello @musa.demir, yes, I am talking about the AbpFeatures table. There are some entries in there out of the box with aspnetzero, for example, App.Captcha, App.ChatFeature, etc. In addition, we have also had some of our own feature flags into this table. However, in order to enable one of these features, we have to go directly into the database, using something like SQL Server Management Studio, or similar, to toggle the feature on.

    I am just wondering if I am missing something in terms of a built in UI to the application, that allows controlling which of these features is enabled or not.

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @gep13

    You shouldn't modify values of those fatures in the database. Can you see those features when you go to tenant list page and click Features action button, see https://docs.aspnetzero.com/en/aspnet-core-mvc/latest/Features-Mvc-Core-Tenant-Management#tenant-edition-and-features ?

    If you only created those fetures in the database, it is a wrong way to define faetures. You can follow features document

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    gep13 created

    @ismcagdas thanks for getting back to me!

    This is the type of UI that I was hoping to find, but to date, I haven't seen this when running the application.

    Is this due to the fact that we are running in Single Tenant Mode? Is there a may to enable/disable features for the single tenant that we have running?

    The above links seem to be specific to when creating additional tenants within the application.

    Thanks Gary

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    ismcagdas created
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    Hi @gep13

    Thanks, that makes the problem clear now. Yes, the features are only available when the app is multi tenant because features are related with tenants. For single tenant mode, it will be better to use Permissions or Settings to achieve similar functionality.

    You can try to enable Tenants page by changing the code but it might also take some time. Even if you enable this page, you can only change values of Features only for the Default tenant.