Published Release Notes

Create pre-import and post-import steps

To take specific actions based on archive metadata, add pre-import and post-import action steps to collections. For example, you can configure a pre-import activity to automatically verify that an archive meets certain criteria before you import the archive. If the archive does not meet the criteria, Pega^® Platform does not import the archive.

For more information, see Pre-import and post-import collections.

Enhanced security of Robotic Desktop Automation requests

Security enhancements have been introduced in the communication (data synchronization or pulling data) between your application that uses robotic desktop automation functionality and Pega^® Platform. These applications (web, desktop, and legacy) communicate with Pega Platform through connectors. No additional configuration is necessary.

For more information, see Robotic automation.

Associate rules and project management work items with features

You can now link a project management work item with a rule when you create a rule, check in a rule, and save a rule as a new rule, which automatically links the rule with any features that are associated with the project management work item. Associating project management work items, rules, and features maintains traceability and makes it easier for you to extend the application, because you can identify the rules that are associated with each feature. On the Application Overview landing page, you can also link existing rules directly to features in the Associated rules section of a feature.

For more information, see Associating existing rules with a feature.

Record Editor and data import enhancements

The Record Editor and Import wizard for data types have been enhanced to make the import process faster and easier to use. You can now perform the following tasks.

• Configure the Record Editor to use full-text search, which makes searching faster.
• Configure the location of the data import error file. For example, you can set the location to a shared location so that users can access the file from any node in a multinode system.
• Pass the keys of the records that were added, updated, or matched directly to custom postprocessing without additional database I/O.
• Search and filter records and export only the results instead of all records.
• Stop an import that is in progress.

Full support for Unicode characters in Pega Express

Pega^® Express now supports Unicode characters when you name properties, case types, and data types. Languages that use multibyte characters, such as Japanese and Hindi, are now fully supported. An administrator can enable Unicode support for Pega Express by configuring a Dynamic System Setting in Designer Studio.

For more information, see Enabling Unicode character support for object names.

Enhanced functionality of the Decision Manager portal

The Decision Manager portal now provides more revision management options. The Decision Analytics work area for development of predictive, adaptive, and text analytics models is now part of the Decision Manager portal. PegaUnit testing of rules is more convenient from a new Automated Testing landing page. Revision managers can reassign change requests back to strategy designers or other users of the Decision Manager portal without losing changes that were already made.

For more information, see Enhancements to the Decision Manager portal.

Listener management in Designer Studio

On the new Listener Management landing page, you can view and manage available listeners across the cluster, including on the current node and remote nodes. By using this landing page, you can quickly debug and trace listeners. You can start, stop, and restart listeners, and you can filter the list of listeners by, for example, type, status, class, or name.

For more information, see Managing listeners.

Enhancements to PegaUnit test cases

Several enhancements have been made to PegaUnit test cases.

• You can now use the following new comparators for the page assertion:
  • Has errors – The assertion passes if the system finds all the pages for which there are errors.
  • Has no errors – The assertion passes if the system finds all the pages for which there are no errors.
• You can now export a list of all the PegaUnit test cases that are in the system or that are configured on a specific rule type to Microsoft Excel format.
• You can now view PegaUnit test cases for built-on applications.

For more information, see the Configuring page assertions and Exporting PegaUnit test cases help topics.

Create email correspondence by using templates

You can configure email correspondence rules by using email templates. Email templates provide custom email formats for users and give developers a greater degree of customization in designing email correspondence. Select an email template on the Corr tab of a correspondence rule by clicking Edit mode and selecting Templated email from the menu. You can also create a section as an email template by clicking Email template on the Settings tab of the section form. For more information see Creating email correspondence by using a template.

OAuth 2 token support in Pega Mobile Client

The Client Store module in Pega Mobile Client has been extended to support OAuth 2 tokens. The tokens are used to authorize data synchronization requests that are sent to the Pega^® Platform. Once the OAuth 2 token support is turned on and configured on the server, Pega Mobile Client starts using it automatically. This functionality is available on both iOS and Android devices.

For more information, see Enabling data synchronization with OAuth 2 tokens.