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From YouTube: Feature Flag User List Speed Run

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How To Create Feature Flag User lists
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/194062

Learn More About Speed Runs: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/product-processes/#recording-videos-to-showcase-features

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Hi, my name is Enrico Lewinsky and I'm, a product manager for the progressive, the delivery group under the release stage here, I get that today, I want to show you a new feature that we just released called user lists for future plans. So in order to do that, I wanted to share first what we had before introducing a new feature, and if you go to your future flags under your project, you can see.

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This is an old feature plug that I created called user ID flag and the way that it worked was that, after giving a feature flag name, you can add the user IDs for which the feature will be enabled and the users were comma separated. So all of these different users could see the feature, and if you wanted to use this list of ID's again, you would need to create a new feature, flag copy, the list again and again and again as many times as you need to use it.

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And if you needed to change a user in a specific client, you would need to remove it from every other flag that they belong to. So this isn't a very convenient way to manage user IDs.

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So we created a new strategy called user list under future folks and the way that it looks is you can see, there's a new tab here under future Flags called lists and at the moment it's empty because I don't have any lists, but that's what we're going to do today and we're going to create a new user list that can be reused for multiple future Flags, meaning that you only need to maintain the list in one location and you don't need to go ahead and go look for the different user IDs where they look at they're located in different flags.

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So this just makes it so much more convenient. Now user lists can only be created and modified through the API, but we're working on adding this to the user interface in this milestone. So let's go ahead and add this through the game kit.

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So let me get my terminal and show it.

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Okay, so I got went ahead and created some scripts, but I will show you in a minute. The basically I want you to see that there are really no user lists currently available in my project and for that I created small scripts.

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And you can see it returns an empty response. There are currently no lists in my project and the way that this script looks is like this.

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Okay, we have see URL and the header you need to add your token and then you need to figure out what your project is in order to know what the project is. You need to go to the project a landing page and you can see you have a project ID I'm, going to feature flags now and back to the terminal, and now we're going to go ahead and create a user list. So for that I created another sprint that creates a user list.

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You can see how we have a few users, the ones or two and I'll show you in the script. What it looks like.

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Then you can see again you need to change your token to your own private, so again, figure out your project ID and then you can see here. I created a new, let's call my user list with the users user, 1 user, 2 user 3.

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So now, let's see what users I have a new project, so we'll do the previous script again and now you can see that like I, don't have an empty response. I have an actual list and let's refresh these our interface- and you can see now that I have one user list in my project called mincer, but with the users that I just created 15 seconds of them. Now you can see that the lead was already supported through the user interface and coming up will be create and edit, but I hope.

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This was helpful and I'll see you next time.