# April 16, 2025 - Deprecation of loadConfigComponent in favor of new multi-section configuration

**URL:** <https://community.cumulocity.com/t/april-16-2025-deprecation-of-loadconfigcomponent-in-favor-of-new-multi-section-configuration/12163>\
**Category:** Application Enablement\
**Tags:** web-sdk, app-enablement, Announcement\
**Created:** [April 18, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/april-16-2025-deprecation-of-loadconfigcomponent-in-favor-of-new-multi-section-configuration/12163 "2025-04-18T07:04:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/april-16-2025-deprecation-of-loadconfigcomponent-in-favor-of-new-multi-section-configuration/12163/1 "2025-04-18T07:04:07Z")

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## Context

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**Change Type:** Announcement  
**Product area:** Application enablement & solutions  
**Component:** Web SDK  
**Deployed at:** [eu.latest.cumulocity.com](http://eu.latest.cumulocity.com), [apj.cumulocity.com](http://apj.cumulocity.com), [jp.cumulocity.com](http://jp.cumulocity.com), [cumulocity.com](http://cumulocity.com), [us.cumulocity.com](http://us.cumulocity.com)

> **Technical details**
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> **Build artifact:** ui-c8y (1022.0.0)  
> **Internal ID:** MTM-63358

## Description

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**What changes?**

Cumulocity introduces a new hookable multi-section concept for the widget configuration, and as a result, the `loadConfigComponent` method of the widgetHook is deprecated.

**How does this change impact you?**

Widget developers should start using the `hookWidgetSection` hook to add configuration to their own or existing widgets. This new approach supports multiple configuration sections to be displayed, offering greater flexibility and organization of widget settings.

**Backward compatibility**

The `loadConfigComponent` method continues to work in short term and will add a section named “Settings”, but it will be removed in an upcoming major release. We recommend migrating to the new approach as soon as possible.