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Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
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Last activity: 6 Oct 2025 3:35 EDT
How to add OOTB info icon available in Pega to a view along with text/message?
I have a requirement to show a info icon with a message in a view. For e.g in a view, i want to use OOTB icon (binary file rule) followed by a message . Let me know how this can be done in constellation UI .
Pegasystems Inc.
PL
@Balasubramaniam Hi, thank for question. Before going into solutioning can you describe the business requirement here in contrast to UI centric requirement?
can you take a look on this article: https://community.pega.com/blog/prescribed-and-flexible-ui-constellation
It explains new ways of working.
Updated: 6 Oct 2025 3:35 EDT
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
@Balasubramaniam the Constellation Design System has four places for showing information in context to a business user:
- Additional Information on a field- this shows up as an Information Icon, once clicked it will show the text
- This can be found in the advanced section when creating a new field in the Data Model Tab of a Case or Data Object
- Helper text on a field - this shows up as helper text under the field. Configured in a View
- Assignment instructions - this shows up at the top of a form. Configured in the top level View
- Contextual message to a field - a warning shown based on conditions
- New to infinity '25
Outside of that, you can also look at extending your Constellation UI to do banners. We provide an example on our github:
- https://pegasystems.github.io/constellation-ui-gallery/?path=/docs/fiel…
- I was under the impression this was going to be in the '25 release but can not find it in the release notes or docs, so its worth checking if its there as a display option for text fields before going the DX route.
More information can be found here.
@Balasubramaniam the Constellation Design System has four places for showing information in context to a business user:
- Additional Information on a field- this shows up as an Information Icon, once clicked it will show the text
- This can be found in the advanced section when creating a new field in the Data Model Tab of a Case or Data Object
- Helper text on a field - this shows up as helper text under the field. Configured in a View
- Assignment instructions - this shows up at the top of a form. Configured in the top level View
- Contextual message to a field - a warning shown based on conditions
- New to infinity '25
Outside of that, you can also look at extending your Constellation UI to do banners. We provide an example on our github:
- https://pegasystems.github.io/constellation-ui-gallery/?path=/docs/fiel…
- I was under the impression this was going to be in the '25 release but can not find it in the release notes or docs, so its worth checking if its there as a display option for text fields before going the DX route.
More information can be found here.
- https://docs.pega.com/bundle/platform/page/platform/user-experience/acc…
- https://docs.pega.com/bundle/platform/page/platform/user-experience/com…