Published Release Notes

New types of steps in a process

You can add assignments, subprocesses, and preconfigured steps to a process in Case Designer. By using these new step types, you can quickly enhance your case life cycle and identify opportunities for reuse. This change also delivers a more consistent experience to users who are working in Case Designer and Process Modeler.

For more information, see Steps in the life cycle of a case.

Reusable components in a case life cycle

You can easily add an existing process or user action to the life cycle of a case type. By reusing functionality in your application, you can reduce the time that it takes to configure a case type.

For more information, see Steps in the life cycle of a case.

Create and edit reports

In Pega Express, you can now create and edit reports for the case types in your application. You can use the new reporting features to modify the way information is displayed in a report and to sort and filter the data for different audiences.

For more information, see Creating reports and Editing reports.

Import specifications

In Pega Express, you can now import specifications from an Excel spreadsheet. Keeping specifications up-to-date helps you to generate a meaningful application profile document to share information about your project with stakeholders.

For more information, see Importing specifications.

Create and associate specifications in Case Designer

You can now create and associate specifications with steps and user forms when you design a case in Case Designer. You can reuse the specifications in the current case and other case types. By defining specifications, you can generate a more meaningful application profile document.

For more information, see Associating a specification with a step, Associating a specification with a user form, and Enhancements to the Direct Capture of Objectives.

Generate an application profile document

In Pega Express, you can now generate an application profile document to share information about your project with stakeholders. An application profile document contains business-related information that is associated with the implementation of a project, such as sizing estimates.

For more information, see Generating an application profile document and Enhancements to the Direct Capture of Objectives.

Redesigned tool for documenting your applications

Use the newly designed Document Application tool to generate application profile documents, application documents, and specification documents. The Document Application tool provides a streamlined landing page for all document types, including custom templates, and replaces the Application Document wizard.

For more information, see Document Application tool and Enhancements to the Direct Capture of Objectives.

New mobile capabilities in Pega Express

In Pega Express, you can now configure offline case types and quickly build a custom mobile app from the Mobile app tab in the settings. You can apply branding, use certificates, and take advantage of device capabilities such as geolocation tracking. If you set up signing certificates (Android, iOS) and provisioning profiles (iOS) for the custom mobile app in the Designer Studio, you can also access them in Pega Express.

For more information, see Building mobile apps.

Enhanced data modeling

You can now create data types quickly in Pega Express. Use the enhanced Data Designer user interface to define the data model for your data types. More field types have been added, and they are categorized as simple, fancy, and complex to meet your data modeling needs.

For more information, see Data Designer enhancements.

Unicode-enabled database for international language support

The Pega 7 Platform database has been enhanced to natively support Unicode multibyte character set encoding when using Postgres on Pega Cloud. This enhancement allows you to store data in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.