Published Release Notes

Pega Express application views simplify portal creation

Pega Express application views offer a simple, intuitive authoring experience for portals. Application view templates support responsive application development and offer mobile-specific templates. You can create portals by selecting from a predefined set of application view templates.

For more information, see Application views.

Usability improvements in Pega Express

The following enhancements have been made in Pega Express to improve your development experience:

• Case Designer now has an option to create a case so that you can quickly test changes to the configuration of your case types.
• There are fewer steps in the process for configuring a dynamic view.
• Some controls on the screen have been repositioned for easier access and support for users who are not using a mouse.
• Some elements on the Life cycle tab of Case Designer support keyboard navigation when you use the Tab, Enter, Right Arrow, or Left Arrow keys.
• The status of a case can be set at the assignment level.

For more information about these changes, see:

• Creating a case
• Configuring a dynamic view
• Configuring a case at run time
• Adding an assignment to a process

New achievement badges

New achievement badges have been added to help you learn about and explore Pega Express.

The new badges are:

• Configure a new application view
• Configure a layout
• Add a chart to a report
• Set a profile picture
• Post to Pulse
• Manage team details
• Enable push notifications

For more information about badges, see Achievement badges.

Enhancements to email approvals in a case

The following enhancements have been made to email approvals in a case:

• In Designer Studio, you can quickly access the correspondence rule to customize the email template by clicking the Configure email template link on an approval step.
• In Designer Studio, you can add or remove the fields that are displayed in the approval email by customizing the associated Review view.
• In Case Designer, you can now quickly enable email approval when you click an approval step and route it to another user without having to switch to Process Modeler if you are working Designer Studio or switching to Designer Studio if you are working in express mode.
• Recipients of email approvals can quickly open cases by clicking the links to the related cases that are provided in the emails.

For more information, see Email approval enhancements in a case type.