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Pega Platform: Community Edition

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Community Edition gives you the power of Pega Platform with full developer access. Community Edition is now available to any Pega Community members.

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Community Edition FAQs

General questions

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Community Edition is a developer-focused Pega Platform trial available to our community members anytime. It allows access to the complete dev toolset that comes with Pega Platform. This includes App Studio, Dev Studio, and Prediction Studio. Community Edition is a great way to explore Pega platform, augment your Pega Academy learning, build a POC, a demo, or start developing any Pega solution.

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The best place to get to your trial is from your My Trials page.

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You can view your trial’s current expiration date from your My Trials page.

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Standard trials of Community Edition are 30 days and can be extended for an additional 15 days.

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To extend your Community Edition trial, go to your My Trials page on My Pega.

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial instance if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card, click the Actions menu, then Extend Trial 15 Days (One time).
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Community Edition is always here for you. While you can only have one system at a time, there is no restriction on the number of times you may sign up. Special requests for longer extensions may be sent to [email protected] but we encourage you to export your work and move it to a new Community Edition system when you need it.

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You use your Pega account credentials to log into your Community Edition trial or any Pega site (Pega.com, Community, Pega Academy, etc.)

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Absolutely! There’s an invite user feature in App Studio designed just for this.

NOTE: Invited users cannot power up your Community Edition trial from their My Trials page, so they will need to coordinate with you to wake up the Community Edition trial instance if needed.

Troubleshooting tips and ticks

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No need to panic! We power down Community Edition trials when they have been inactive. You can wake up your instance from your My Trials page. Powering up will just take a couple of minutes.

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This error indicates there is an issue with the operator record or password in your Community Edition trial.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.
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This error typically occurs when incorrect changes are made to OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication process.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial, if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.
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This error indicates there is an issue with the application you built.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial, if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.
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To resolve any login issues, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.
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You cannot access the database tables for Community Edition trials.

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In App Studio you can export from the Application Overview page, or in Dev Studio you can use the Application / Distribution / Export tools.

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Send an email to [email protected] with any questions you have.

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