Building custom UI capabilities
Dev Studio offers a number of tools that you can use to further customize your application.
Compared to low-code and out-of-the-box components, unique solutions such as custom JavaScript and HTML rules provide higher flexibility at the cost of greater development and maintenance effort.
Features like mashups or Digital Experience (DX) API cater to more sophisticated and specific business requirements. While mashups help you embed Pega-based content in your application, DX API takes a step further and helps you make use of a variety of Pega Platform capabilities, such as case management, within your custom front-end solution.
Discover more about custom capabilities in the following articles:
- Generating complex PDFs on your UI
Provide your users with tools to import case information to their devices. By configuring an out-of-the-box activity to convert case data to a PDF file, you help users access and archive information that is related to their cases with less effort and at any time.
- Creating auto-generated custom controls
Expand the functionality of your application by adding no-code, auto-generated controls to your user interface. Auto-generated controls are custom controls that use standard controls as templates, and you can integrate them with your application with minimal effort.
- Development of web self-service interface
When you use Pega’s user interface in your existing self-service application, your customers can directly perform tasks in a Pega application. By providing customers with constant access to the information and actions that they seek, you enhance user experience and reduce the number of direct contacts with the call center.
- Pega web mashups for embedding Pega Platform UI in external web pages
You can choose parts of Pega Platform UI that are most suited to your business needs and make them available to users of your websites by creating a mashup. When you use mashups, you save development time and make your web application more engaging, varied, and functional.
- Custom JavaScript in application design
You can add custom JavaScript to supplement the standard Pega Platform JavaScript code to meet specific design or usage requirements for your application. For example, you can use custom scripts to modify the content of an HTML document dynamically, add custom client-side validation scripts, error messages, and more.
- Public JavaScript APIs
Public JavaScript APIs provide you with tools to integrate custom controls into Pega Platform.
- Traditional Starter Packs
Experienced developers can expand the Pega UI by using Traditional Starter Packs to build custom components.
- Salesforce Lightning Integration
You can use the DX API architecture to integrate Pega Platform applications with Salesforce Lightning. This feature enables you to run cases inside the Salesforce product through Pega Web Components.
- Configuring URLs to open as standalone Assignments
Enable your users to directly access their Assignments through a URL that you can deliver in a message, such as an email. By using this feature, you can keep users informed about the actions that they need to perform in the system, and provide them with a convenient interface for operations.
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