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Pega Platform: Community Edition

Build without limits. Community Edition gives you the power of Pega Platform with full developer access.

Community Edition is now available to all Pega Community members.

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Community Edition Trial FAQs

Why wait for email? Use our FAQs to find answers to your questions - fast!

Most Frequently Asked Questions

To reset your operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial, if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card, click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.

If you reset your operator to default settings, and you still cannot access your Community Edition trial, we recommend deleting the trial instance and starting over.

To delete your community edition trial:

  1. Go to the Trial card on My Pega > Software > My Trials
  2. Wake up the Community Edition trial if necessary.
  3. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Delete trial.

Community Edition trials cannot be extended after they expire.

You can register for a new Community Edition trial at your convenience.

Deleting an application in a Pega environment is not a trivial task and should be done rarely, if ever.

We recommend resetting your operator to default settings. This will reset your Community Edition trial to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

If you are determined to delete an application, review Pega's technical documentation for guidance if you are unsure about the process.

Removing a JAR file is equivalent to trying to delete an application.

Deleting an application in a Pega environment is not a trivial task and should be done rarely, if ever.

We recommend resetting your operator to default settings. This will reset your Community Edition trial to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

If you are determined to delete an application, review Pega's technical documentation for guidance if you are unsure about the process.

It is not possible to recover any lost work (applications) from an expired Community Edition trial.

Community Edition trials cannot be recovered after they expire.
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Other Frequently Asked Questions

Troubleshooting tips and tricks

No need to panic! We power down Community Edition trials when they have been inactive. You can wake up your instance from your My Trials page. Powering up will just take a couple of minutes.

This error indicates there is an issue with the operator record or password in your Community Edition trial.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.

 

This error typically occurs when incorrect changes are made to OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication process.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial, if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.

 

This error indicates there is an issue with the application you built.

To resolve this issue, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial, if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.

To resolve any login issues, simply reset your operator to the original default settings. This will reset your user to the shipped values and allow you to start over in a new application.

To reset the operator to default settings:

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card click the Actions menu card, and then click Reset Operator to default settings.

You cannot access the database tables for Community Edition trials.

In App Studio you can export from the Application Overview page, or in Dev Studio you can use the Application / Distribution / Export tools.

 

Send an email to [email protected] with any questions you have.

General questions

Community Edition is a developer-focused Pega Platform trial available to our community members anytime. It allows access to the complete dev toolset that comes with Pega Platform. This includes App Studio, Dev Studio, and Prediction Studio. Community Edition is a great way to explore Pega platform, augment your Pega Academy learning, build a POC, a demo, or start developing any Pega solution.

The best place to get to your trial is from your My Trials page.

 

You can view your trial’s current expiration date from your My Trials page.

 

Standard trials of Community Edition are 30 days and can be extended for an additional 15 days.

To extend your Community Edition trial, go to your My Trials page on My Pega.

  1. Power on your Community Edition trial instance if necessary.
  2. In the lower-right corner of the Community Edition trial card, click the Actions menu, then Extend Trial 15 Days (One time).

Community Edition trials cannot be extended beyond 45 days.

We encourage you to export your work before your Community Edition trial expires, then register for a new trial at your convenience.

You use your Pega account credentials to log into your Community Edition trial or any Pega site (Pega.com, Community, Pega Academy, etc.)

Absolutely! There’s an invite user feature in App Studio designed just for this.

NOTE: Invited users cannot power up your Community Edition trial from their My Trials page, so they will need to coordinate with you to wake up the Community Edition trial instance if needed.

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