Data transform support in offline-enabled applications
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
You can now use data transforms in offline-enabled applications to reduce the need to write your own custom JavaScript functions. Data transforms are automatically packaged for offline use when they are configured on flow connectors, as preprocessing or postprocessing data transforms on a flow action, or on refresh actions or data transform actions on controls in a section. You also can run a data transform in offline mode by using a Run Script action or a custom JavaScript function, provided you add the data transform definition to the rule of offline-supported data transforms.
For more information, see Data transform support in offline mode.
Language detection option in Text Analyzer
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
On the Text Analyzer form, you can identify the language of incoming records based on their language metadata tag by selecting the Language detected by publisher option. This option applies only to Text Analyzer rules that process Twitter records. By combining this option with the advanced language filtering criteria of Twitter data sets, you can filter out unnecessary data and analyze only the Twitter records that are relevant to your business objective.
For more information, see Configuring advanced filter conditions for Twitter data and Configuring language settings.
Options for filtering data in Twitter data sets
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
Twitter data sets have more options for filtering tweets. On the Advanced options tab of the Edit Data Set form, you can configure your Twitter data set to not analyze tweets if they contain specific keywords or if the tweets are made by specific authors. You can also select the languages to analyze based on the language metadata tag of the incoming tweets (tweets in other languages are ignored). By configuring the filtering criteria, you can ignore data that is not relevant to your text analysis and retrieve only the records that you need.
For more information, see Configuring advanced filter conditions for Twitter data.
New Mobile Apps form for defining and building mobile apps
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
You now create and build mobile apps in Pega Express from the Mobile Apps form. The new console is a control center for mobile apps where you can gather applications, services, components, and settings in one place to fully customize your apps. You can create and build one instance of a custom mobile app and define multiple native mobile apps that can use the Pega Mobile SDK. To push notifications to an Android or to an iOS device, you must define an SDK mobile app in Pega Express with a certificate set that has push notifications enabled.
For more information, see Configuring a custom mobile app and Configuring push notifications for an SDK app.
Push real-time notifications to your clients
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
You can now set up a real-time notification system based on the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging pattern where a node in the cluster can push notifications to your browser clients. Nodes publish notifications to a channel that can broadcast to all the subscribed browser clients.
You can create a notification channel from the Notification channels landing page and subscribe to the channel by selecting the On Load action, which is available under action sets.
For more information, see Real-time applications and push notifications in the Pega 7 Platform.
Enhancements to branches
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
Several enhancements to branches make it possible for you to now do the following tasks.
- You can see all branches in your application and built-on applications by clicking App > Branches.
- You can view all the rules in a branch in addition to quality statistics, such as the number of merge conflicts and guardrail warnings.
- You can run PegaUnit tests that are configured on rules in a branch.
- You can import branches from and push branches to a repository.
- You can create reviews of branch contents.
For more information, see Enhanced features for branches.
Improved diagnostics and logging for Decision Data Store nodes
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
On the Decision Data Store tab, you can view additional metrics from the Decision Data Store nodes that help with diagnosing Cassandra database problems. You can also set the logging level to control interactions from and to Decision Data Store nodes.
For more information, see Decision Data Service node status information and Configuring the Decision Data Store service.
Tracing Cassandra queries in a Decision Data Store data set
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
You can now enable the Trace option for every operation in the Decision Data Store data set to collect information about how the Decision Data Store queries are executed in Cassandra. You can view this information in the clipboard and use it to troubleshoot and optimize performance of the Decision Data Store data sets and Decision Data Store nodes. All the queries and related events are collected on the DDSTraces page on the same Pega thread.
For more information, see Tracing Decision Data Store operations.
Improve cluster security by limiting concurrent operator sessions
Valid from Pega Version 7.3
You can increase the security of a Pega® Platform cluster by limiting the number of concurrent sessions allowed for each operator. Because operators typically do not require multiple concurrent sessions for performing their work, limiting the number of sessions reduces the chance that an unknown or untrusted person could access systems in the cluster. Use the new setting Number of concurrent sessions allowed for each operator on the Production tab of the System Data Instance form to configure the number of concurrent sessions for operators. You must restart your system when you change this setting. You can also create a list of operators by using the presence/maxsessions/operators/whitelist Dynamic System Setting, to which the maximum number of concurrent sessions setting will not apply.
For more information, see System form - Completing the Production tab.
New Mobile Apps form for defining and building mobile apps
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.2
You now create and build mobile apps from the Mobile Apps form instead of from the Mobile tab of the Application rule form. The new console is a control center for mobile apps where you can gather applications, services, components, and settings in one place to fully customize your apps in the Pega 7 Platform. You can create and build one instance of a custom mobile app and define multiple native mobile apps that can use the Pega Mobile SDK. To push notifications to an Android or to an iOS device, you must define an SDK mobile app in the Pega 7 Platform with a certificate set that has push notifications enabled.
For more information, see Configuring a custom mobile app and Configuring push notifications for an SDK app.