Use application rules to define an ordered set of rulesets and versions that together identify the parts of a Pega Platform application. In addition, application rules relate the application's objectives, specifications, and actors to objects created as part of the Direct Capture of Objectives.
You can view and edit many application rule settings on the Application Overview landing page.
The Application form displays the following tabs that provide configuration options for your application:
Access groups can reference application rules. In addition, application rules can reference other application rules.
Enter a unique, meaningful name for the Description field. If users have access to more than one version of an application, include a version number in this field or other identifying text.
In Designer Studio, the text in the Description field is displayed as the current application on the Application menu and the Switch Application list.
During log in, the system assembles a ruleset list for a user from application rules referenced in:
In a production setting, use care in updating application rules. After you save an Application form, active requestor sessions on the current node that are associated with that application are immediately updated, which is the equivalent of logging out and logging in again. This can affect the ruleset list of these requestor sessions and other security and operational factors determined during log in, such as locale, organization, and operator availability. Requestor sessions at other nodes in a cluster are similarly updated when the next system pulse occurs on their node.
Using the optional security audit feature, your application can list in the History Details display the values that were added, updated, or removed from this rule when it was saved.
Although application rules are associated with a ruleset, they do not belong to any specific version of that ruleset. Locking a ruleset version (by selecting the Lock this Version check box) does not prevent later changes to application rules associated with the ruleset.
The reserved page Application on the clipboard holds most of the contents of a requestor's current application rule.