Updating Next-Best-Action Designer
This content applies only to Pega Cloud environments
In Pega Marketing and Pega Customer Decision Hub, Next-Best-Actions are automated decisions based on predictive analytics, adaptive analytics, and traditional business rules. With Next-Best-Action Designer, you can define Next-Best-Action decisions and requirements that apply to the whole organization, or to specific business issues or groups.
Planning an update of Next-Best-Action Designer
When preparing for an update, take into account the environments that you have in your pipeline. To avoid interrupting normal business operations with downtime for the update, the following update path is recommended:
- Run the pre-update check and resolve all of the identified errors.
- Update Next-Best-Action Designer in the Staging Clone environment.
- After the update is successful and tested, push the changes to the live Production system.
- Push the changes from Staging Clone to downstream instances such as BOE, Staging, Dev or QA environments after Production is updated.
Migrating Next-Best-Action Designer from version 1 to version 2
When planning a migration, consider the various environments that you may have in your pipeline. Best practice is to first perform the migration in a Staging Clone environment, in a dedicated, unlocked update ruleset version, and then migrate all the rule changes to other environments in the pipeline.
To migrate Next-Best-Action Designer:
- Suspend any outbound schedules defined for the existing Next-Best-Action configuration defined in Next-Best-Action Designer version 1.
- Ensure that all Pega Customer Decision Hub assets are checked in.
- Ensure that the ruleset and version used by your access group are unlocked, or create an unlocked version of the ruleset. By default, the ruleset used to store the configuration is Artifacts.
- Ensure that the ruleset and version used by your Context Dictionary is unlocked. You can check the ruleset and version on the landing page in App Studio.
- In Dev Studio, click .
- Click Create.
- Enter the following information:
- Short description
- Optionally, enter the description of this Dynamic System Setting, for example, Enables the update of Next-Best-Action Designer to version 2.
- Owning Ruleset
- Enter PegaMKT-Engine.
- Setting Purpose
- Enter MKTEnableNBADversion2Upgrade.
- Click Create and open.
- Set the value of the setting to True.
- Click Save.
- Log off from Pega Customer Decision Hub and then log back in.
- In App Studio or in the Pega Customer Decision Hub portal,
click
The Next-Best-Action Designer now shows the option to update to version 2.
. - Click Migrate now. The configuration of next-best-action and its strategy framework is updated.
- If you do not plan to implement action treatments, which were introduced in
Pega Marketing version 8.2, deactivate
Next-Best-Action treatment processing. This ensures that offers created before
the update function correctly. After you associate your offers with treatments,
you can enable treatment processing again. For more information, see the
Pega Customer Decision Hub 8.7 User Guide on the Pega Customer
Decision Hub product page.
- Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Next-Best-Action Designer.
- Set the Channel treatment processing toggle to OFF.
- Click Submit.
After migrating Next-Best-Action Designer, review and test the migrated strategies to ensure that they work with the new configuration.
Updating Next-Best-Action Designer version 2
Update your Next-Best-Action Designer configuration to support the latest features and updates, if you have already used Next-Best-Action Designer version 2 in previous versions of Pega Marketing or Pega Customer Decision Hub.
Next-Best-Action Designer in non-production environments:
All instances of Production environments level 4 or below automatically update Next-Best-Action Designer as part of a Pega Customer Decision Hub update. Ensure that the following prerequisites are met before performing a Customer Decision Hub update:
- After running the Pre-Upgrade Check as a part of your planning, ensure that all of the identified errors are resolved before proceeding with the update.
- Ensure that no next-best-action outbound runs are currently active, and that no runs are planned for the same time that you want to run the Next-Best-Action Designer update.
- Ensure that no inbound requests, such as real-time events and real-time container requests, are planned for the same time that you want to run the Next-Best-Action Designer update.
- Ensure that the ruleset and version used by your access group are unlocked, or create an unlocked version of the ruleset. By default, the Artifacts ruleset is used to store the configuration.
- Ensure that at least one unlocked version of the ruleset used for Context Dictionary exists
- Optional: To avoid potential issues during the update, check in all checked-out artifacts related to Next-Best-Action Designer.
- Optional: To ensure that future development is based on the updated rulesets and that your applications consistently reference the latest features, roll the Artifacts ruleset version.
Migrating Artifact into other instances:
Seamless updates of Next-Best-Action Designer are not enabled in production-level environments (such as Production and BOE) due to runtime concerns during the updates.
To migrate the artifacts into production-level environments you should use the Pega Deployment Manager. See for more information about migrating artifacts into production before the Go/No-Go stage.
To maintain synchronization across all the environments, it is recommended to migrate Artifacts from Production to Dev, QA,Staging and BOE. You can refer to for further details.
Removing deprecated Action Outcomes data sets
Along with the Outboud Limits, improved way of tracking time period for policies necessitates you to remove deprecated Action Outcomes data sets from Interaction History Summaries while updating Next-Best-Action Designer.
- Dev Studio, click .
- Find Action Outcomes for the past 7 Days and Action Outcomes for the past 30 Days.
- Click Manage.
- Select Not materialized.
- Click Advanced.
- Click the Remove dataset from the configuration icon.
- Click Save.
Change from Customer Contact Policy to Outbound Limits
If you are updating to Pega Customer Decision Hub version 8.7, your Customer Contact Policy will be moved to Outbound Limits. This is a required migration and there is no backward compatibility once Next-Best-Action Designer has been updated to version 8.7.
- In the Pega Customer Decision Hub portal, click .
- Click Edit
- In the Contact policy library workspace chose the contact policy.
- Click the More icon next to the contact policy and choose Edit contact policy.
- Make the necessary changes.If the Customer Contact Policy is not currently in use, meaning that the dates have passed, or have not yet begun, or that the policy is marked as unavailable, but there are policies defined, the policies will be migrated to version 8.7 as a current available Contact Policy. If you do not want this to happen, you must remove the policy before the update:
- In the Contact policy library workspace chose the contact policy you want to remove.
- Click the More icon next to the contact policy
- Click Delete contact policy.
Also, you will need at least as many days of data in Interaction History as the longest policy period defined. That is, if you have a Monthly policy period, you will need 30 days of data in Interaction History.
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