Features listed in the following table bring new
capabilities to Process Commander applications or improve
developer productivity:
Benefit
|
Description
|
Topics
|
| Broader platform support |
The standard portals operate on Microsoft Vista
Business workstations. (Windows XP remains supported.).
|
How to set up
HTML and XML editors (Microsoft Vista)
|
| User interface flexibility and power |
On a work object form or flow action form, repeating
groups can be presented as a set of columns (as an
alternative to a set of rows).
|
Section form — Completing the Layout tab —
Adding a Repeat Column control
|
| User interface flexibility and power |
On a work object form or flow action form, repeating
groups can be presented as a set of tabs (as an
alternative to a set of rows).
|
Section
form — Completing the Layout tab — Adding a
Repeat Tab control
|
| User interface flexibility and power |
On a work object form, layouts
can be presented using an accordion control, such that
expanding one layout causes the currently expanded
layout to collapse.
|
Harness and section
form — Completing the Layout tab — Adding
an accordion control
|
| Faster development cycles, better documentation |
When editing an assignment shape on a flow rule in
Visio, you can associate use cases with local flow
actions
On the Diagram tab of
the Flow form, you can access the use cases associated
with local flow actions.
|
Flow form — Editing in Visio —
Assignment
Flow
form — Interacting with the Diagram tab
|
| User interface flexibility |
Seven new standard edit validate rules support
format validation of U.S. ZIP codes, U.S. and
international telephone numbers, and dates.
|
Atlas
— Standard edit validate rules
|
| User interface flexibility |
A single cell at the right of each tab in a Tabbed
layout can contain a property value, selection list, or
other control. |
Harness and Section form — Adding a Tab control
|
| User interface flexibility |
Section rules can optionally accept parameters
Within a section, you can use the notation
param.PARAMNAME to identify:
- Label text
- the caption of a button
- the value of a parameter to an HTML property
rule
|
Section form - Completing the Parameter tab
Harness, Section, and Flow action forms — Placing
a text label in a cell
Harness,
Section, and Flow action forms — Placing a button
in a cell
HTML Property form — Completing the Parameters
tab
|
| Faster development cycles |
The Direct Capture of Objectives facilities are
enhanced.
- A new rule type — Application Requirements
— records requirements initially recorded in
the Application Profile wizard.
- Requirements are directly linked to flow rules
and use case rules.
- Local actions - both those specific to an
assignment, and those available globally for a flow,
can be linked to use cases.
|
About Application Requirements rules
Developer portal
— Menus
Flow rules — Editing in Visio — Assignment
tasks
|
| Performance analysis |
A new alert PEGA0029 identifies any HTML streams sent to the browser that exceed a threshold size in bytes. |
How to detect large HTML streams
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What's new for application
developers?
What's new for application users?
What's new in
Version 5.4SP2?
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