This topic explains how to use the Flags list, which shows your feature flags and gives you options to create, modify, and manage them.
All of your feature flags within a project appear on the Flags list. Creating a new flag adds it to the list and all environments within your project, and archiving a feature flag removes it from the list and all environments within your project.
Here is an image of the feature Flags list:
The Flags list shows the following information about each flag for each environment:
Hover over the information for a flag to view more details about its variations, evaluations, and any guarded rollouts or release pipelines the flag is included in.
You can also use the REST API: List feature flags
To learn how to create a new flag, read Create a feature flag. To learn how to archive a flag, read Archive flags.
Use the search bar to find a flag by name, key, or description. By default, the most recently created flags appear first.
You can view your flags as a list, or in the project’s release pipeline. To view flags in the project’s release pipeline, click Release assistant in the left sidenav. To learn more, read Release pipelines.
You can filter the list of flags to view only flags that share a particular attribute.
Some flag attributes, such as tag or SDK availability, are the same across all environments in your project. To filter your flags based on project-wide attributes, use the Filters menu at the top of the Flags list:
Within a project, you can filter by:
To filter your flags at the project level:
If you filter flags by maintainer, you can choose to view flags maintained by an individual member or by a team.
Other flag attributes, such as targeting state or status, are different for each environment. To filter your flags based on environment-specific attributes, use the filter icon in any of your open environments. Hover your cursor over the environment name and select the filter icon to access all the available filters.
Within an environment, you can filter by:
To filter your flags at the environment level:
Your Flags list now displays only the flags that match the filters you specified.
To clear project-level filters, click Filters, then click Clear.
To clear environment-level filters, click the filter icon at the top of the environment’s flag list, then click Clear.
You can create shortcuts to filtered Flags lists, and save them in the left sidenav to return to at any time.
When you create a shortcut, it is only visible to you. To group flags within a project and have that grouping be visible for everyone in your account, we recommend using views.
To create a shortcut to a filtered Flags list:
Your shortcut appears in the left sidenav.
You can sort the list of visible flags by creation date, by name, or by last modified date. To sort the Flags list, click Sort and choose a sorting option:
Using the Display menu, you can display or hide the following flag properties from the Flags list:
When the archive checks are selected, the list indicates whether a flag is ready for code removal or is ready to archive. To learn more, read Flag statuses and lifecycle stages.
You can also check the Use key instead of name option in the Display menu to show flag keys instead of flag names in the Flags list:
Using the View menu, you can show only flags that are linked to selected views. Views are resources to logically group flags within a project. For example, you can create “frontend” and “backend” views to organize flags within your project, and separate access to flags in those views.
You can follow a flag to receive an email notification, and, if applicable, a notification in the LaunchDarkly Slack app, when someone makes a targeting change to that flag. Notifications are environment-specific, so you must follow a flag in each environment you want notifications for.
If you have the LaunchDarkly Slack app installed, you will automatically receive notifications in Slack about any changes to flags you have followed. To learn more about the Slack app, read Slack.
To follow a flag:
In the left navigation, click Code. The CodeControl menu appears.
Click Flags.
Click on the name of the flag you want to follow. The flag’s Targeting tab opens.
Click on the name of the environment you want to follow the flag in.
Click on the Follow flag icon.
You can also use the REST API: Add a member as a follower of a flag, Remove a member as a follower of a flag
You can create shortcuts to a specific environment on a flag’s Targeting tab. This allows you to return to that flag’s environment-specific Targeting tab from a shortcut in the left sidenav.
To create a shortcut to a flag’s Targeting tab:
Your shortcut appears in the left sidenav.