How is a KM Configurable Handled via an Upgrade?!

Hi there,
Does anyone know if there is any official documentation (or does the responsible SAP developer know this; I have got my own experience, but have never ever seen this documented) about how existing configurables within KM are handled when an upgrade is performed?
I have got two scenarios in mind:
1.) A customer changes let's say the AdminExplorer and replaces one of the standard collection renderers. With the next upgrade, with which the AdminExplorer is delivered, will this be overwritten? And besides: What is to be expected to be delivered, as patches / SPS are cumulative - the whole config?
2.) A customer decides to implement lets say a command; he will call it "ABCDE". One month later, SAP creates a new feature within KM, providing this by delivering a command called "ABCDE". Which (bad) scenario will the customer have to struggle with? Will he have lost his own command? Or will he be in the situation that his command is preserved, but he won't have the new standard available?
Once again, I think I know the de-facto-behaviour, what I'm interested in is how SAP plans such cases to be handled. Probably it is a design issue not to have provided namespaces for all configurables, so that there cannot be a seperation between SAP-configs and customer-configs.
Any documentation on this? Any insider knowledge?!
Thanks in advance
Detlev

Hi Detlev,
Youre right; there is no documentation on these config-merge details / commands.
The default behaviour of the Configuration Framework on upgrade/deployment is to keep always the custom configurations, as created / modified by the customer.
If SAP needs the default configurable to be changed, there are config commands that are additionally provided in the configarchives. Such commands are individually written by the developers providing the configuration. The delete command deletes the configurable to enable immediate redeployment of the updated configurable or they e.g. explicitly delete an old value and add the new one. As using such delete command will delete the custom configuration we use it quite carefully and only in extraordinary cases in order to avoid problems at customer side.
A modify command is not possible for configurables.
This is why newly deployed configarchives do normally not override the already deployed configurables.
Coming to your scenarios:
1)     No overwriting.
A SPS contains whole default config indeed. Patches contain just configarchives if contained in the par / project per default.
2)     Considering this example in UI command area customer will keep his config but miss the new default one. Config might get mixed up as new object might be referenced as well by other (new) configurables.
I just can suggest to have kind of an own namespace by using explicit prefixes to avoid such theoretical incident.
Hope this helps.
Best regards, Peter Hartwich

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