Published Release Notes

New Mobile Apps form for defining and building mobile apps

You now create and build mobile apps in Pega Express from the Mobile Apps form. The new console is a control center for mobile apps where you can gather applications, services, components, and settings in one place to fully customize your apps. You can create and build one instance of a custom mobile app and define multiple native mobile apps that can use the Pega Mobile SDK. To push notifications to an Android or to an iOS device, you must define an SDK mobile app in Pega Express with a certificate set that has push notifications enabled.

For more information, see Configuring a custom mobile app and Configuring push notifications for an SDK app.

Navigation of sections based on templates in Pega Express

When editing a case form in Pega Express, you can navigate up and down through the section structure. If a section uses a design template, you can drill down to a nested child section by clicking it. Drilling down facilitates navigation through the section structure. You can drill down from a parent to a child section or up from a child section to its parent.

For more information, see Improved section navigation and organization in Pega Express.

Drag and drop sections in Pega Express

When editing a case form, you can select, drag, and drop sections that use a design template inside a form. Drag and drop provides a simplified way to reorganize sections on a form.

For more information, see Improved section navigation and organization in Pega Express.

Automated Unit Testing (AUT) content removed from the help

Information about Automated Unit Testing (AUT) has been removed from the Pega 7 Platform help, beginning with version 7.2.2. The AUT information is still available in earlier versions of the Pega 7 Platform help and on the PDN in the topic category Testing Applications.

PegaUnit testing is now supported on data pages, activities, data transforms, strategies, decision tables, and decision trees, which you can use to quickly and easily create test cases for your Pega 7 Platform applications instead of using AUT.

For more information, see:

• Pega 7.2.2 behavior when switching between PegaUnit testing and Automated Unit Testing features
• Automated Unit Testing

Push real-time notifications to your clients

You can now set up a real-time notification system based on the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging pattern where a node in the cluster can push notifications to your browser clients. Nodes publish notifications to a channel that can broadcast to all the subscribed browser clients.

You can create a notification channel from the Notification channels landing page and subscribe to the channel by selecting the On Load action, which is available under action sets.

For more information, see Real-time applications and push notifications in the Pega 7 Platform.

Execute Tests service now supports flows, case types, and PegaUnit test suites

The Execute Tests service now supports running flows, case types, PegaUnit test suites. Use the Execute Tests service to validate the quality of your builds after every build run.

For more information, see Running PegaUnit test cases and test suites with the Execute Tests service.

Support for creating PegaUnit test suites

You can now create PegaUnit test suites to group related PegaUnit test cases and run them in the order that you specify. For example, you can create smoke tests to verify that critical application functionality is working as expected.

For more information, see PegaUnit test suites.

Enable and disable functionality with feature toggles

You can enable and disable functionality in your application for development and testing by creating feature toggles on the Toggle Management landing page. You can also manage the toggles in your application from the landing page. For example, you can review the toggles that you want to retire at the end of a release, or migrate a toggle to other applications by changing the associated ruleset.

For more information, see Creating a toggle.

Support for following users in the Pega Express and Case Manager portals

You can now follow users in both the Pega Express and Case Manager portals. Posts that are made by users whom you are following are displayed in your Pulse activity feed in your dashboard. In addition, an icon indicates whether followed users are online.

For more information, see the following help topics:

• Following a user (Pega 7.3)
• Following a user (Pega 7.3 express)

Enhancements to the Send Email smart shape

The following enhancements have been made to the Send Email smart shape:

• You can now configure the Send Email smart shape in Pega Express.
• You can use templates, such as a rejection template, in your email.
• You can use property values, which allow you to insert the value of a field in your case type, such as First Name, within the email.
• You can insert a link to the case ID in your email.
• You can more quickly configure your recipient list by using two options, instead of one, to send messages to either a list of email addresses or to fields.
• You can choose to send either all case attachments in an email, or you can send attachments of a specified attachment category or an attachment type field. You can specify multiple attachment categories and attachment type fields.

For more information, see the following help topics:

• Sending email from a case (Pega 7.3)
• Sending email from a case (Pega 7.3 express)