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Pegasystems Inc.
PL
Last activity: 10 Jul 2025 12:12 EDT
Constellation 101
Hi and welcome to Constellation 101. Series of articles that will help you getting most of Constellation. We will present here tips, guides and best practices illustrated with real life use cases so you can learn how to build modern application with Pega Constellation
This post will be updated with links to new articles being published.
- Making case History Tab more user friendly in Constellation
- Bulk actions in Constellation
- From fields to functionality - Fields associated with Data Objects and when to use them
- Configuration of Web Embed
- Complex data visualizations
- Quickly building dynamic form field behavior with Constellation and App Studio: Cascading dropdowns
- List View: Configuring a Table display
- Custom recents
- Views in Constellation
- Form Views
- Partial Views
- List Views
- List View: Enabling Personalization
- Full Page View
- Views configuration
- REST CRUD actions in Constellation
- Localization in Constellation
- Displaying complex information on case tabs
- Infinite Scrolling in Constellation Table for REST API
- Who took my action sets
- Pre-selecting items in multi-select list in Constellation
- List View: Configuring a Gallery display
- Switching portals and access groups in Constellation
- Bulk Transfer Assignment
- Customized Followed Items
- Some insights into Insights (and Explore Data)
- Source a dropdown from external system of record
- Using Promoted Filters to Help Refine Your Data Search
- List View: Search and Select UX Pattern
- Create OAuth 2.0 access token to call Pega API
- Utilising Advanced Associations (joins) with Insights in Explore Data to report on Tags
- Display Data from Work and Assign-WorkBasket tables
- Display custom property values in the full text search results
- Visualizing data from class group
- List Views: Grouped Rows and Table Format
- Modernization Assistant tool experience v. 1
- Constellation Cheat Sheet
- Pega Common Application (aka Common Data Model)
- Configuring Actions for data objects
Areteans Technology Solutions
GB
Hi @Kamil Janeczek,
I have some basic questions.
1. In a constellation, is it always recommended to create a new data model either in the implementation layer or organizational layer (e.g., Contact), or can we reuse an existing data model (e.g., PegaDATA-Contact) through inheritance? I haven't found any documentation references on this. What is the recommended approach for a greenfield application?
2. Also, should we build a new greenfield application on top of the Pega Common Data Model application, or as a standalone? What is suggested?
Thank you.
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@Arunkum@rthanks for questions I see them already answered here: https://support.pega.com/discussion/constellation-ask-your-questions
Areteans Technology Solutions
GB
How to Add Read-Only Text to the UI or View in Constellation Without a Data Model
In traditional UI, we add a paragraph to the section. Similarly How can we achieve this in Constellation without using a data model?
SoftServe
US
@Arunkum@r Hi Arunkumar,
In Constellation I see Form views allow to override case instructions, likewise we used paragraph rules in UI-Kit to add additional information to a collect information step.
Field groups also allow this, so you might add your text to either of those. So, in a nutshell you can combine Form views (like to add top instructions) and then field groups to add more focused instructions.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
-Jose Navas
Updated: 28 Feb 2025 14:58 EST
Accenture
GB
Hi @Kamil Janeczek , Greetings. Hope you are well! I have a List being displayed with a single select, however i see the radio button selection is greyed out, i even tried with latest Search and Select but still the button is greyed out. I am on Pega 24.1.1. Please see below screenshots for reference.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Bharat
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@KOMARINA Hi, which button is greyed out, the radio buttons? It is not evident from the screenshot. Can you attach configuration of this field?
Accenture
GB
@Kamil JaneczekHi Kamil, Greetings. yes, the radio buttons are greyed out, last screen shot is of the view which has List and mode single-select.
Accenture
GB
@Kamil Janeczek No, Data Page just gets a response from a Connector and forms the list, not custom configuration to make it readonly
Incessant Technologies PVT Ltd
IN
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Delta Dental of CA
US
@Kamil Janeczek hi Kamil, how to configure 'Search and Select" feature in Landing Page? Use case is to build custom search capability to query data from external system or simplified view.
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@VenkatVVSearch and select pattern is available only for Data Reference field (so inside Case). For landing pages you can use promoted filters that are available on:
- List Views
- Insights
ComponentMaker
GB
@Kamil Janeczek Hi Kamil - these are great standalone resources. The excellent Constellation Adoption mission (which I know you were a fundamental contributor to) is a more structured way to learn Constellation. It would be good for this audience to understand whether these articles are in addition to, fully covered or partly covered by the mission. I'll take another look at the SweetLife sample application and see if I can map these 101 articles back to specific parts of the learning journey provided by the mission.
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@NiallThanks Niall. Those materials are meant to extend what we covered in Constellation Adoption mission. This is in response to many voice that SAs/LSAs need more practical and hands on experience.
I would advise everyone to go through Constellation Adoption mission and then search for additional guidance in Constellation 101 series.