Guardrails compliance score
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.5
The Application Guardrails landing page has been enhanced to help you build more guardrail-compliant applications. Increase transparency and accountability on your projects by responding to the following compliance score metrics:
- A weighted compliance score (0-100) based on warnings, severity, and justification
- A percentage of compliant rules in your application
- Total number of rules in your application
- Total number of rules in your application with warnings (justified and unjustified)
Additional metrics include alert and interaction count trends over the last four weeks.
For more information, see Guardrails compliance score.
Directed inheritance view in Application Explorer
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.5
You can now specify which inheritance model is used to populate classes in the Application Explorer. From the top level menu, use the “Explorer Inheritance” option to choose between:
- Pattern: only display class names whose prefix matches the root node class name.
- Directed: first display classes that explicitly name the root node as the parent class; then display classes with pattern inheritance.
By default, the Application Explorer loads using Pattern inheritance.
Save Application Explorer filter selections
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.5
Application scoping control selections made in the Application Explorer are now persisted between sessions. These preferences are stored in an operator record on an access group level. If you delete (and later re-add) an access group on your operator form, the application scoping control defaults to all layers selected:
External access control DASS
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.5
A new Dynamic Admin System Setting (DASS) controls the Designer Studio's access to external systems, specifically the PDN RSS feed found on the home page.
By default, Pega-Desktop.AllowAccessToExternalSystem is set to TRUE. Update this setting to FALSE to hide the PDN RSS feed and ensure that no RSS fetch is performed.
Unicode-enabled database for international language support
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
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.
Change the type of an existing field
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now change the type of an existing field on the Data model tab of a case type or data type, resulting in a more efficient development process at design time. If there are any validation issues when changing a type, an error message is displayed, and the type cannot be modified by using this method.
For more information, see:
- Modifying the type of a field
- Troubleshooting validation errors when changing the type of an existing field
Open authoring for rule forms has been removed
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
Open authoring for rule forms has been removed. You can now edit decision tables and map values by using the application and supported browser of your choice; Microsoft ActiveX controls are no longer required. In addition, support for external XML, HTML, and Java IDE editors has been removed.
Pega Express application views simplify portal creation
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
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.
Rule form search
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now search for content within some rule forms by clicking Search rule on the menu. The search results and the tabs of the rule form that contain the search results are highlighted.
For example, you can find the properties that are used in a when condition inside an activity without navigating to each tab, when condition, transition, and method in the activity.
Delegate service-level agreements
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now delegate service-level agreements (SLAs) to your business line by clicking
. You can also delegate circumstanced versions of SLAs.For more information about delegations, see Delegating a rule or data type.