Published Release Notes

Real-time updates in Pulse

You can now view real-time updates of messages in Pulse. If a user posts a comment on a Pulse conversation while you are viewing the conversation, you receive a notification in real time, which you can click to refresh the conversation and see the comment.

For information about Pulse enhancements, see:

• Pega Express 7.3.1 – Communicating with Pulse
• Pega Platform 7.3.1 – Pulse enhancements for social collaboration

Ability to map JSON to clipboard properties by using a data transform

You can now map the entire JSON file or individual properties to and from the clipboard by using a data transform. Using a data transform makes it faster and easier to connect your Pega^® Platform to your system of record.

For more information, see Data transforms.

Customize themes for your application

You can now customize themes for your application by selecting the background, border, button and text colors; border width; and text font and size. You can further customize themes by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

For more information, see Customization of themes.

New aggregation functions in event strategies

You can use new functions in event strategies to build standard and complex aggregations. With new aggregation functions you can detect additional patterns in streams of data and deliver actionable insights.

For more information, see Adding aggregations in event strategies.

Legacy landing pages removed

The following legacy landing pages and their links in the Designer Studio menu have been removed:

• Designer Studio > Data Model > Clipboard Pages > Data Pages
• Designer Studio > Data Model > Clipboard Pages > Undefined Pages
• Designer Studio > Data Model > Classes & Properties > Class Relationships

The streamlined Designer Studio menu facilitates locating and navigating to landing pages.

For information about the replacements for these landing pages, see Deprecated features.

Service REST monitoring

You can now monitor response and request data for REST services and view the results in Pega^® Platform. The ability to monitor REST services is useful for debugging your application during development, for example, when a request fails. It is not recommended that you monitor REST services in production environments because monitoring might affect performance and depending on the number of incoming service requests, there is a chance that over a period of time, the invocation history might get large enough so that you run out of database space. You can configure monitoring globally for all of your REST services by using the service/EnableglobalMonitoring Dynamic System Setting with owning ruleset Pega-IntegrationEngine, or by using the service package and service rule forms.

For more information, see Service REST monitoring.

Project sizing supports real-time feedback

You can now size a project based on the stories that you create in the Agile Workbench tool. By capturing feedback from your stakeholders in stories, you can improve the accuracy of your estimated timeline and costs in real time.
For more information about project sizing, see Sizing an application development project.

Support for intelligent routing in the Email channel

When you create an Email channel interface to use as a Pega^® Intelligent Virtual Assistant, you can now set up automatic routing of the received email content. You define routing rules so that the Email channel is more responsive and makes an informed decision about how to process the email content. The Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant can automatically assign it to an operator, add it to a work queue, or create a top-level case. In addition, you can configure multiple email accounts to act as the same Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant.

For more information, see Configuring routing conditions for automatic email handling.

Continue batch data flow runs that failed and reprocess partitions with the failed records

You can now continue batch data flow runs that failed and complete them with failures. You can also identify all the records that failed during a batch data flow run that is completed with failures. After you fix all the issues that are related to the failed records, you can reprocess the failures by resubmitting the partitions that contain the failed records. This option saves time when your data flow run processes millions of records and you do not want to start the run from the beginning.

For more information, see Data flow run updates.

Multi-Select list control

You can add a Multi-Select list control to a user form so that application users can select more than one value for a single field. These lists save time and ensure accuracy by supplying a list of valid values for an input field. You can source a Multi-Select list control from a data page, clipboard page, or report definition.

For more information, see Adding and configuring a Multi-Select list control.