Goal and deadline push notifications in mobile apps
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
For mobile apps, you can enable push notifications to be sent to an assignee's or a manager's mobile device when a defined goal or deadline interval related to a service-level agreement expires. These notifications help caseworkers resolve cases on time.
For more information, see Requirements for goal and deadline push notifications.
View and apply schema changes when upgrading or updating
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
When you upgrade or update, you can view the schema changes to the default work and history tables and apply the changes to your cloned tables. By applying the changes, you improve performance and can take advantage of the latest reports on those tables.
For information about viewing and applying schema changes as part of the upgrade or update, see the Pega 7 Platform Upgrade Guide or the Pega 7 Platform Update Guide.
For information about using the Designer Studio tool or the command-line tool, see Updating cloned tables after an upgrade or update.
Discontinued support for multithreaded requestors
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
Multithreaded requestors are no longer supported in the Pega 7 Platform. Multithreading was previously specified by the prconfig setting initialization/allowMultiplePRThreads. If this setting is set to true when you upgrade to Pega 7.2.1, errors occur during the quiesce process.
Configure additional email accounts for Pulse notifications
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now configure individual email accounts for each application for which you want to send Pulse email notifications. For example, you can configure a specific email account to send Pulse notifications for an HR Services application, a Release Management application, and so on.
For more information, see Configuring Pulse notifications on additional email accounts.
Enhancements to email approvals in a case
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
The following enhancements have been made to email approvals in a case:
- In Designer Studio, you can quickly access the correspondence rule to customize the email template by clicking the Configure email template link on an approval step.
- In Designer Studio, you can add or remove the fields that are displayed in the approval email by customizing the associated Review view.
- In Case Designer, you can now quickly enable email approval when you click an approval step and route it to another user without having to switch to Process Modeler if you are working Designer Studio or switching to Designer Studio if you are working in express mode.
- Recipients of email approvals can quickly open cases by clicking the links to the related cases that are provided in the emails.
For more information, see Email approval enhancements in a case type.
Approval emails now contain links to cases
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
Emails that you receive to reject or accept a task in a case now contain a link to the case. You can click this link to quickly open a case for which you receive approval emails.
New graphical framework for the Event Strategy rule form
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
The Event Strategy rule form introduces a new graphical framework that includes redesigned strategy shapes, improved navigation, and faster response time when building a strategy. These changes contribute to creating a more functional and engaging environment that allows strategy designers to successfully develop and maintain event strategy rules.
For more information, see Event Strategy rule type enhancements.
New shapes in the Event Strategy rule type
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
The Event Strategy rule type supports branching and merging of the data stream by using the new Split and Split and Join strategy shapes. You can now split your event strategy into several paths to identify multiple types of events with a single rule instance.
In addition, the Lookup shape replaces the Static Data shape. You can add static data anywhere in the strategy. For example, you can filter out irrelevant events, and then evoke static data for only the events that are relevant to the strategy.
For more information, see Event Strategy rule type enhancements.
State management support for data flows that run event strategies
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now store the state of your data flow work items that contain event strategies in the Cassandra database of the decision data store. With this solution, you can recover the event strategy state without any loss of data. You can also pause and resume active data flows that invoke event strategies.
For more information, see Event Strategy rule type enhancements.
Quick and customized data imports
Valid from Pega Version 7.2.1
You can now quickly add, update, or delete data records for your data types by uploading .csv files that contain a large number of records. The bulk import process allows you to import data from a variety of sources and gives you more control over your data. You can customize this process by overriding a data transform to add purposes, a section to add fields, and an activity to define the logic for each purpose.
For more information, see Data import customization.