What's new in Pega 7.2.1

User interface

• You can configure dynamic layouts using the flexbox layout mode setting. Alignment of elements within a flexbox dynamic layout is controlled by relative alignment setting instead of float. New dynamic layouts use flexbox by default.
• Select the Ignore locale option in Designer Studio preferences to ignore the operator and browser locale settings. This option removes the possibility of localized text appearing in Designer Studio if localized rulesets are shared between Designer Studio and an application.
• The harness container format includes a No markup option that removes the non-semantic table tags from the markup.
• Categorize rows of a repeating dynamic layout using a property. You can provide year-based navigation when categorizing by a date-type property. You can also specify a maximum height for a repeating dynamic layout.
• The Field Value Inspector in Live UI allows for inspection and localization of field values at run time. The Field Value Inspector is found on the Localize tab of Live UI.

• Enable notifications for your case type to call attention to unresolved cases.

• Use rich text and URL fields in your forms to collect information from users.

• Process Modeler has been enhanced to be faster, more responsive, and easier to use.

• Keyboard shortcuts have been added to the Process Modeler.

• Enable email approval and open the correspondence rule to customize the email template on the approval step.
• Use the AND and OR operators to configure advanced validation conditions on form fields.
• Configure Pulse notifications on additional email accounts.

• Add your own extensible tab with customized features on selected rule forms.
• Delegate service-level agreements.
• Edit decision tables and map values by using the application and supported browser of your choice with the removal of open authoring.

• You can now view, add, and delete the specifications that are associated with a rule on the new Specifications tab of most rule forms.
• To help you more efficiently drive decisions by stakeholders, you can specify whether to include related built-on application layer assets in application profile documents and application documents.
• For specification documents, you can specify whether to include specifications from the built-on application layer.
• Application profile documents and application documents generated by the Document Application tool now present information in a more logical order based on how the application was built (for example, by case life-cycle management). Also, these documents now include all specifications linked with an implementation rule, presented in logical order under the implementation rule.

• Use external data flow rules to run predictive models directly on an infrastructure of a Hadoop environment.
• Reference HDFS data sets that store data in the Parquet format.
• Explore the improved look and feel of the Event Strategy rule type canvas.
• Track different trends in customer behavior by splitting event strategies into multiple streams.
• Resume processing of batch and real-time data flows that contain event strategy rules without any data loss with the state management functionality.
• Use strategy rules with external input for defining the filter and default behavior criteria in proposition filter rules.
• Extend the default behavior criteria to propositions that do not match any specific filter criteria.
• Define the start and end date for versioned and unversioned propositions using the proposition validity settings.
• Import and export data in generic decision data rules.
• Define your own custom entities for named entity extraction in text analytics.
• Use the playback option to retrieve historical data from Twitter data sets.
• Limit the retrieval of posts from Facebook data sets to the posts created within a specific time period.

• Store customer data from input streams or batch uploads as event types in the Event Catalog.
• Use a standard way to configure a cluster out of all the nodes assigned to a Pega database, that will run a DSM service.
• Monitor data flow runs that are distributed across nodes and partitions.
• Launch Visual Business Director (VBD) HTML client on any Pega-supported browser.
• Add your own model identifiers in the Adaptive Model rule.

• To improve the look-and-feel experience of the mobile app, you can use built-in transition effects to move forward or backward in cases that use flows.
• Mobile apps can now receive push notifications when intervals for defined goals and deadlines expire. See Requirements for goal and deadline push notifications.
• Push notification smart shapes can now send push notifications that open a case in a custom mobile app. Notifications are delivered to all devices on which a user is logged in to a custom mobile app.
• You can now use a Push Console to send ad hoc push notifications to all users of a custom mobile app, for example, to notify users when an update is available for manual download.
• Subflows and decision flow results are now supported in offline mode. You can set flow results using a JavaScript method to override that status set using a property. See Flow processing in offline mode.
• Survey execution is now supported in offline-enabled custom mobile applications, through the use of Question smart shapes in flows. To use this feature, you must purchase and install PegaSurvey. See Calling a question from a flow.
• You can now delete a certificate set (Android or iOS) from the Mobile Certificates landing page.
• Custom mobile apps that are offline enabled now support multi-language localization. You can store multiple languages and switch to a different language in the app while working offline.
• You can now choose if a user password is required at each start for custom mobile apps, to provide additional protection for applications that store sensitive information.
• You can use the JavaScript error handling API in offline mode to set, clear or obtain error messages on a page and its properties.

• A high-throughput option for Pega Cloud instances using a Postgres database can download up to 25 GB of data per hour for extracts from a BLOB-less class table for CSV output.
• The Pega 7 Platform database supports Unicode multibyte character set encoding, allowing you to store data in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
• You can schedule BLOB size and table statistic updates to database schemas to run automatically by using agents. Scheduling schema updates is useful for performance monitoring and tuning in the Pega Cloud. This feature is available only for customers who use a Postgres database.
• You can import data into a Pega Cloud database from a .csv file by using the Data Upload utility.

• Add, update, or delete a large number of data records quickly for your data types by uploading .csv files.
• Customize the data import process for data types by adding purposes for importing data from .csv files, adding fields, and defining the logic that controls the behavior of the import.
• Use additional assertions to validate that application data is loaded correctly when you create data page unit test cases.
• Set up the clipboard with initial values before running a data page unit test case and remove information from the clipboard after running the test.
• Use the Execute Tests service to run all data page unit test cases in your application at the end of every build run.

• Attach case and Pulse attachments from Box while working on a case in your application.
• Store case and Pulse attachments in Box while working on a case in your application.
• Configure the Integration & security tab of your application rule to enable content sourcing and storage in Box.
• Use the improved REST integration wizard to quickly create data sources in your application.

System management

• Remotely manage hotfixes and data instances faster and more securely.

• View and apply schema changes when upgrading or updating. For more information, see Updating cloned tables after an upgrade or update.

• Resume in-progress upgrades and updates. For more information, see the deployment guides on the PDN.

• Use database-reserved keywords in database column names.

Security

• Use attribute-based access control (ABAC) to grant access rights to individual instances of classes through the use of configurable policies made up of attributes working together.

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