What's new in Pega 7.1.9

User interface

• Dynamic containers and screen layouts have WAI-ARIA roles assigned by default. WAI-ARIA roles provide information about the user interface to assistive technologies.

• Dynamic layouts can be assigned one of a variety of WAI-ARIA roles to support accessibility.

• Portal-level links allow users to skip non-essential content and tab directly to main content, search, or navigation elements.

• Add a user reference to a form to prompt caseworkers to search for an existing user as they process a case.

• Integrate data with cases by referencing a data type on a form.

• Reuse fields and forms in Form Builder to create forms that are easier to maintain.

• The search field type in Form Builder is deprecated.

• Switch from Designer Studio to express mode to quickly develop new applications in the Pega 7 Express environment. Some limitations apply.

• Create an express application for yourself or invite another user to explore Pega 7 Express.

• Export your express applications to share with others or to migrate to a different system.

Note: Trial versions of Pega 7 Express continue to be available on the cloud. To view the documentation for both the cloud and on-premises environments, see Getting started with Pega 7 Express.

• You can now enable a historical specification count and implementation progress by complexity and business impact (Designer Studio > Application > Profile > Analysis). You can view specification count filtered by complexity and business impact, as well as counts, by business objective, of specifications that have been implemented and those that have not.
• Specifications can now be filtered by release and iteration (Designer Studio > Application > Profile > Specifications).
• Project stakeholders can now track an application’s compliance score over time to better understand and manage ongoing development adherence to Pega 7 Platform guardrails. The compliance score history can be displayed on a line graph on the Compliance Score tab of the Application Guardrails landing page (Designer Studio > Application > Guardrails > Compliance Score).
• The project sizing template used by the Application Sizing Wizard now includes a column for business impact. Project owners can now incorporate this assessment into their project sizing.

For more information, see:

• Application Profile Analysis tab
• Application Specifications - Completing the Details tab
• Enabling compliance score history

• Use the text analytics functionality for sentiment, classification, and entity extraction analysis. Create an instance of the Free Text Model rule and reference it in a data flow. Analyze text-based content, including news feeds, emails, and postings on social media streams, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

• Process real-time events with the Event Strategy rule. Create an instance of the Event Strategy rule and reference it in a data flow. Use event strategy to detect meaningful events in a stream of real-time data and react to the detected events in a timely manner.

• Use the PMML upload wizard in the Predictive Model rule form to upload external models in PMML format. Validate the models and receive immediate feedback when they contain errors. Use the enhanced error messages and the Model XML preview in the rule form to fix errors.

• Set report definitions as primary and secondary sources in data flows.

• When using a Database Table data set as the destination of the data flow, you can specify whether to insert new records or insert new records and overwrite the existing ones.

• Run simulations and test strategies for single and multiple customers. Identify the most popular propositions offered to customers, check the overall strategy performance, and examine the performance of the individual components.

• To integrate with device peripherals (Bluetooth devices, printers, scanners), you can build Pega Mobile Client with custom modules by using the build server.

• You can turn a Pega 7 Express app into a mobile app with a single click.
• New Pega Mobile Client debugging options are available at both design and run time. See Mobile settings reference and Troubleshooting Pega Mobile Client on the PDN for more information.

• Upload PDF files to the Pega 7 Platform as binary files so that they can be viewed offline when added to the cache manifest. See also Ability to view a PDF file while offline on the PDN.
• Address map control displays a live Google map with location pins for a list of addresses when online and defaults to a static map image when offline.
• Create the JavaScript equivalent of pre- and post-processing on flow actions that will run in a mobile app while offline.
• Use parameterized data pages to configure cascading drop-down lists on any screen in a mobile app while offline.
• Use a declarative property to get the current date and time on a mobile client while offline.

• You can now use cluster-based pulse processing, which immediately updates rule changes across all nodes in a system after they are saved.
• Multinode development environments now use real-time pulse processing, where rule changes are immediately reflected on all the other nodes in the cluster.
• Applications running in High Availability mode use database pulse by default, allowing for persistent storage for passivation and providing control for the High Availability landing page.

• You can verify whether a Pega 7 Platform instance is up and running by entering this URL:http://<<hostName:port/contextName>>/PRRestService/monitor/pingservice/ping

• The name of Internet Application Composer (IAC) has changed to Pega Web Mashup.

• When using SSH FTP (SFTP) in an FTP server record, you can securely transfer files by using SSH keys. You can enable and configure SFTP on the Protocol section of the Environment tab.

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