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Hello Framework Community, I’m here to announce an exciting new beta feature we’ve just launched after hearing suggestions from our customers: the ability to share your laptop configuration and have it pre-populated in our configurator!
The code I wrote to make this happen saves some data we were not saving before and that is hard to reconstruct, so we decided to launch this for all orders with laptop configurations going forward. To use the feature, you have to have made an order for your laptop configuration starting a moment ago with some exceptions for orders we were testing with. We just flipped the feature flag to see the sharing link in your Profile -> Orders section generated by saving this extra data. This is what it looks like when your configuration was saved:
When you send the link to someone, they’ll be taken right to the configurator with as much of your configuration filled out as we can (some items may be out of stock, etc.) so they can copy your configuration exactly, super easily!
If you aren’t ready to purchase yet, but still want to share a configuration, you can use the new “Save” button at the bottom or top of the configurator to share a configuration in a similar way. This feature might also allow you to construct a sharing link for your previous configurations as well depending on if they are still available currently in our laptop configurator.
Additionally, the new Profile -> Saved Configurations section allows you to see previous configurations you’ve ordered for orders made after December 19th and for configurations you save:
We hope these features make shopping for our laptops with your friends and colleagues easier. Growing up, I loved going through online computer configurators, maxing out a configuration, or setting one up that would be perfect for the tasks I needed to complete like graphic design, music composition, or compiling code. Sharing it with others makes it even more fun. We hope you enjoy this new feature. But more importantly, we’d love to hear your thoughts so we can keep building features that meet your needs! Feel free to leave a comment to let us know what you think so we can keep on iterating and improving.
- Zach Feldman, Lead Software Engineer, Marketplace