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When multiple teams experiment in the same app or on the same website they often need to work together and be aware of each other. Surfaces is a concept in Confidence that facilitates this collaboration. Watch this video to get an introduction to surfaces and learn how to organize, coordinate, and configure experiments with surfaces.
Think of a surface as a logical representation of some part of your app or website, under which you can organize experiments. A surface becomes a natural place where folks in your company can go to see which experiments are running and what’s coming up for a particular part of the product. For example, customer support can quickly go in and see what kind of experiments are running if a user reports a problem on a particular page. Surface view

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Surface Settings

The surface owner and admins can configure the surface settings which include creation of exclusivity groups and holdbacks, notifications, required metrics, automatic actions, and reviews.

Surface Settings

Configure exclusivity groups, holdbacks, and reviews

Organize Experiments

Use surfaces to coordinate experiments

Exclusive Experiments

Make experiments mutually exclusive

Notifications

Configure surface notifications