Facelift Information and Webinar

We've been hearing a fair amount of questions and concerns about the upcoming changes to UI requirements and the 'Facelift' project, so I wanted to make a quick post to answer some of the common questions. (If you have already performed the UI/Facelift update for your extension, you may safely ignore this entire post)

Extension Review(s)

It will not be a requirement to have your extensions 'facelifted' by 16.0's release. However, later this year (we haven't decided exactly when yet) there will be some changes to the Extension Review for new extensions and annual reviews.

As part of the annual review, if your extension is not updated to the new UI requirements, you will receive that feedback as part of the report you get back from Configura. It will describe the changes that you should make, as well as a timeline for when those changes should be made, but you will not 'fail' the review at that time.

New extensions going through the review will have a similar update, but with a shorter expected timeline for you to make the requested changes.

We would like to stress that if you have found yourself in a difficult situation and feel you are unable to meet the timelines described in the report given to you by Configura, we would be happy to work with you on a plan that better suits your situation. You may contact extension-review@configura.com to continue that discussion.

Documentation

We have put together documentation to explain the new design requirements, general guidelines, as well as technical information for developers and catalog content specialists. We've been informally referring to this as the 'Design Docs', but the more 'official' name is the 'CET Design System'.

The documentation can be found at https://design.configura.com/. A link has also been added to the 'CET Developer' and 'QA Analyst' menus on the Developer Portal.

Facelift Webinar

We're going to be hosting a quick webinar discussing the Facelift change for developers. If you've already been involved in performing the update, or you attended the CETX workshop on the subject, this will be old-news for you. This webinar is intended to be a 1-hour walkthrough of Facelift, with a short segment for questions at the end. You can register for the webinar at the Developer Academy: https://dev-academy.configura.com/course/webinars.

Hopefully this helps! As always, feel free to reach out to developer support if you have any further questions!