Deprecated end user portals
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.1
The following portals are no longer be supported:
- SysAdmDD
- WorkUserDD
- WorkManagerDD
As a best practice, customize standard, supported portals rather than update your existing portals to include new features.
Limited access for end user portals
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.1
The following portals are only accessible from supported versions of Internet Explorer in “quirks” mode:
- WorkUser
- WorkManager
Nesting dynamic containers not supported
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.1
Do not include a section containing a dynamic container inside of another dynamic container. This configuration may cause performance issues resulting in unexpected behavior at runtime, and is not supported.
Revamped view authoring in Cosmos React
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
Applications that use Cosmos React now feature updated case and portal authoring tools, including more templates, improved view editing, and more intuitive management of UI components.
This change empowers citizen developers to build applications through configuration as opposed to customization, and reduces development time while also providing a prescriptive environment for creating optimal customer experience.
For more information, see Configuring forms and views.
Improved UI accessibility
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
Pega Platform™ now supports W3C Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines more fully, which creates a better user experience for people who rely on assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
The user interface now features the following enhancements:
- Improved keyboard navigation and updated ARIA attributes for layouts, including dynamic, repeating, and table layouts.
- Updated navigation for AJAX and dynamic containers.
- More precise keyboard navigation and focus control for pop-up components, such as SmartTips.
- Fixed accessibility gaps in out-of-the-box actionable controls and form components, such as buttons and text fields.
- More accessible error messages with improved color schemes and focus control. To meet the WCAG ARIA guidelines, the Show next Error bar has been retired and substituted with more accessible error symbols.
- Accessibility code included in the Pega Platform ruleset by default, without the need for additional configuration.
For more information, see Supported keyboard navigation.
Improved scroll functionality in vertical tabs
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
When you scroll content in an application that uses the Cosmos theme, the UI now remembers the scroll position even if you switch between vertical tabs, for example, in the case details section. Previously, the application reset the page to the topmost position every time you switched tabs. This update improves the user experience by reducing context switching.
Loading cues in Pega Platform
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
Pega Platform™ applications that rely on the Cosmos React framework now feature a visual placeholder for the page that is being loaded. The system displays an indicator when loading portals, cases, simple pages, and list pages. This update provides users with a visual cue that their request is being processed, which improves the user experience.
Support for picklists with parameterized data pages in App Studio in Cosmos React UI
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
You can now use data pages with parameters to populate a property of the picklist type with filtered results in App Studio. For example, in a survey case type, you can use a parameterized data page to configure cascading drop-down controls in which the values in a secondary drop-down list are based on the value that the user selects in the primary drop-down list. With dynamically-sourced picklists, you get greater flexibility in configuring picklists, and users see more accurate values.
For more information, see link Dropdown control Properties — General tab.
Enhanced performance and usability of Cosmos React tables
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
With the new Cosmos React tables, you can now handle large data sets with no impact on performance or user experience. Cosmos React tables now also come with a rich set of field-type specific column formats, which you can conveniently change at design time as well as at run time, depending on your needs. For example, you can now do the following actions:
- Customize a date column from a default format (MMDDYY) to readable text ("10 days ago").
- Save the new setting in your personalized view.
- Freeze and rearrange columns.
- Enable aggregations (sum, min, max, avg) on the number and currency fields.
- Display aggregation values also at the grouped-row level.
The new enhancements make data in tables more easily explorable and significantly reduce the need to produce additional reports.
For more information, see Enhance the user experience with new Cosmos React tables (8.6), Configuring a React table in a section (for Theme Cosmos applications), and Configuring lists (for Cosmos React applications).
Enhancements in list view authoring and run-time editing of Cosmos React tables
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
Cosmos React tables now offer an enriched and more convenient way of authoring and editing. You can now achieve the following results:
- Enable editing in the list view template that holds your table so that users can instantly change values inline or preview and edit a referenced object from the table in a pop-up window.
- Change the label, format, or helper text for a column at design time.
- Create multiple preset views with different filters, and switch between these views at run time.
- Perform a variety of optional actions on a table row, such as update, change stage, preview, and open a row in a new tab.
These enhancements result in a better user experience by making tables more customizable, intuitive, and interactive.
For more information, see Enhance the user experience with new Cosmos React tables (8.6), Configuring a React table in a section (for Theme Cosmos applications), and Configuring lists (for Cosmos React applications).