Creating and managing cases
Provide users of your application with the ability to manage work by creating, working through, and resolving cases in the portal that they log in to. For example, in a banking application, a CSR can create cases to open a new bank account for a customer or investigate and resolve a customer inquiry.
After creating a case, case workers can use additional tools, such as an option to follow and tag a case or the ability to process cases in bulk, whichmakes the processing more effective. You can also enable users to customize the dashboard that they see after they log in to your application.Theme Theme UI-Kit applications
In the classic Theme Theme UI-Kit applications, with section-based architecture, by default, Pega Platform has two portals for the two most common roles: case manager and case worker. The Case Manager portal displays a case and all the nested subcases and tasks, as well as the associated users and roles. The Case Worker portal allows users to create and process cases that are assigned to them. The Case Manager portal allows users to monitor the case statuses for individual team members or a team queue.A portal consists of pages that consolidate information for easy access. For example, a portal can include pages for Search, Tags, or Recently accessed items, which allow a user to perform their job more efficiently. The Case Manger portal additionally offers the Dashboard, Reports, and Following standard pages.
While you can use the default portals as-is in your application, some situations require that you customize the layout of the portal or the tools that you present to users. For more information, see Building portals and Organizing the contents of a portal.
Theme Cosmos applications
In the recommended Theme Cosmos applications, Pega provides a redesigned, fully-customizable UI in one portal that offers the most comprehensive list of features.For example, in the Theme Cosmos applications, you can use the preview pane to see the most important case information, collaborate by using Pulse, and interact with case widgets. You can preview cases and documents directly from their links and open related cases in new browser tabs to keep the context of your current work. You can conveniently switch between cases with your browser's back button and follow navigable breadcrumbs to trace relationship between related work. If you need to return to a task later, you can bookmark cases, new spaces, or important documents, and access them again in the Recents menu. You can maximize the work area by hiding Spaces and Documents sections, and expanding them only when necessary. An expandable pane on the right side holds tabs for metadata details and utility widgets, and case information is presented in the following ways:
- The navigation menu on the left allows for easy access to the main pages.
- Case data and related objects display in the Summary pane, which has a customizable interface.
- The work area features activity and life-cycle tasks, such as ad-hoc, suggested, or completed tasks. Any collaboration or message history captured in Pulse also appears in the work area.
- The expandable utilities pane displays widgets for participants, attachments, and tags.
For greater flexibility and better user experience, you can customize User Portal for specific personas and enable case workers to personalize the case UI at run time. For more information, see Organizing the contents of a portal.
- Out-of-the-box portal features for creating and managing cases
Out-of-the-box features in portals help users plan work efficiently and complete common management tasks.
- Creating cases
Create and process cases in a portal, so that users can perform their work more efficiently and meet their business goals. For example, a customer service representative can create a case to collect and process information from a customer applying for a loan, and then resolve the case to achieve a specific outcome, such as granting the loan.
- Transferring an assignment
You can transfer an assignment from one user to another. For example, you can transfer an assignment to a team member with more experience or less workload. By reassigning work to other members on your team, you can also resolve cases more quickly and effectively.
- Bulk processing
You can use the Bulk actions form in the Case Manager portal to process more than one case at a time. Bulk processing saves time and is less error prone than processing cases individually.
- Tagging a case
Associate a tag with a case. A lock is not required to tag a case. You can tag a case regardless of the case's current status.
- Following a case
Follow a case to receive notifications when users post messages to the case in Pulse. By actively monitoring cases, you can contribute to stakeholder discussions and help resolve cases more quickly.
- Managing case followers
Ensure that relevant stakeholders participate in case discussions by controlling which users follow a case.
- Configuring your dashboard
Configure your dashboard to personalize your workspace and choose the widgets that increase your productivity.
- Reopening a resolved case
Reopen a resolved case if users resolved the case prematurely or erroneously. After reopening the case, you can process and resolve the case again.
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