The Designer Studio home page displays high level information about your current application. It appears in the work area of Designer Studio when you log in. As you develop your application, rules, data instances, and other forms replace the home page in the work area.
Click the Pega 7 Platform logo in the header of Designer Studio to reopen the home page.
This panel briefly lists some of the key product changes that were delivered as part of this release. Use the available buttons to access more detailed information:
PDN overview — Click to open the product announcement page for this release.
This page gives includes links to the full set of detailed release notes.
You must have a valid Pega Discovery Network account to access the product announcement page.
Detailed help — Click to open the Pega 7 Platform Help system.
This tool gives you access to procedures, concepts, and reference material that helps you build your application. It has also has integrated search and index capabilities.
You must have the prhelp.war archive deployed to access this system.
Note: Click Don't show this again to remove this panel from the home page as part of an automatically managed operator preference.
This panel gives you a dashboard view of the warnings in your application that were introduced in the last seven days. Use the metrics in this section to understand the distribution of warnings by severity level and how you and your team members are impacting the health of your application.
In this panel, you can:
Click any number to see a list of warnings for a specific severity.
Click View all warnings to open the Application Guardrails landing page.
This panel gives you options to build and maintain a list of tasks that supplement your project worklist. Using tasks can help facilitate collaboration with other operators as you build your application.
For more details on this feature, see Using Pega Task.
This panel is populated by an RSS feed that displays special interest topics on the Pega Discovery Network (PDN).
In this panel, you can:
Click any article title to open the article in a new window.
Click PDN Forums to open the top-level PDN Forums page.
You can use a Dynamic System Setting to disable the RSS feed .