Add multiple attachments at once
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.7
You can now add more than one attachment to a requirement or specification at a time, without closing the Add/Edit Attachment modal dialog box. Use the traditional browse method to upload an attachment or drag and drop a local file, based on your needs. View and access your attachments from the Application Profile landing page, Requirement form, or Specification form.
Attachment support for requirements
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.6
Requirements now support attachments. You can add attachments from the Designer Studio > Application > Profile > Requirements landing page, the Add/Edit Requirement modal, or the requirement rule form.
Link URLs to applications, requirements, and specifications
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.8
In addition to files, you can now attach URLs to applications, requirements, and specifications by using the Add/Edit Attachment modal dialog box in Pega 7. This change allows you to link directly to dynamic content in other URL-based systems rather than link to a static file of that content.
New Business impact optimization dashboard
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.9
On the Analysis tab of the Application Profile landing page, you can now enable historical specification count and implementation progress by complexity and business impact. On the Business impact optimization dashboard, you can view counts of specifications by complexity and business impact. You can also view counts, by business objective, of specifications that have been implemented and for those not yet implemented. You can filter specifications by release and iteration.
For more information, see Viewing specifications by complexity, impact, and business objective, and Associating project specifications with business impact and complexity.
Easy access to proposition-related rules when creating change requests in revision management
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
When selecting propositions for change requests in Decision Strategy Manager, you can view the proposition filter, strategy, and when rules that are associated with the decision data the selected propositions belong to. In addition, you can include those rules in change requests. To view and add any associated rules to a change request, the rules must be part of the application overlay. With the ability to view and select all proposition-related data, you can consistently revise not only propositions themselves but also all associated rules.
For more information, see Proposition-centric revision management functionality.
DCO
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.4
This release focused on improving the user experience of creating new rules and tightening up the use of specifications in the Case Designer. The layout of the New and Save As forms were made more intuitive and intelligent. Specification actions were made to be more consistent across various aspects of the Case Designer.
- After removing specification references, users can create and save a new specification.
- Developers may now choose either an existing specification or create a new one for subflows and Split-For-Each shapes.
- If a specification is not associated with flow shapes such as sub flows, Utilities, or Split-For-Each, it is possible to import speciications with the same names, and the flow shapes will default to using those imported specs.
- In the outline view, specification changes will be preserved when switching from tab to tab.
- The View Full Details functionality from either Configure Step or the Outline View will display all details, including the specification requirement links.
Updates to the Predictive Model rule form
Valid from Pega Version 7.1.9
The Predictive Model rule form provides the XML schema preview for uploaded PMML models. You can use this preview to view the structure of a model and to correct errors before saving the rule. When the model contains errors, they are displayed in the Errors section at the bottom of the rule.
Text analytics infrastructure upgraded to Java version 1.7
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
The JAR libraries that support the text analytics features of the Pega 7 Platform have been upgraded to Java 1.7. As a result of the upgrade, you can validate the Ruta scripts that contain entity extraction models and view error reports if the imported Ruta scripts are invalid. This upgrade helps you to ensure that the structure of the entity extraction models that you import to your application is always correct.
For more information, see Text Analyzer.
External data flow rules are deprecated
Valid from Pega Version 8.5
External data flows are now deprecated and no longer supported. To improve your user experience with Pega Platform™, the user interface elements associated with these rules are hidden from view by default. Identifying unused features allows Pega to focus on developing and supporting the features that you need.
For more information, see Deprecated: External data flows.
External data flow rules are removed
Valid from Pega Version 8.6
In previous versions of Pega Platform™, you could configure data flows to run in an external Hadoop environment. The external data flows functionality was deprecated and hidden from view in Pega Platform 8.5. The functionality has been now removed and is no longer available in Pega Platform 8.6.
For more information, see External data flow rules are deprecated.