What's new in PRPC 7.1.6

Mobile

• Build, apply branding to, and distribute a hybrid mobile app using the Mobile Settings tab in Designer Studio. Access your app using the Pega 7 mobile app, available for download from the Apple iTunes or Google Play app stores.
• The Mobile Mashup SDK integrates with a new or existing Apple iOS or Android mobile application to provide enhanced functionality and collaboration between the app and PRPC.
• Create a seamless user experience when moving between a desktop and a mobile application using the Address Map and Signature Capture controls.

Decision Management

• Decision parameters provide the extension and customization points to provide flexible inputs to the strategy.
• The external input mechanism allows you to design reusable strategies and test strategies with predefined inputs.
• Using split and exclusion components, you can build traditional segmentation trees in strategies.
• Iterative components provide cumulative calculations capabilities to strategies.
• Use the features added by the Decision Manager ruleset in PegaDM to enable business users to own parts of an enterprise application within the boundaries defined by IT: revision management and proposition authorization.

Case Management

• Stage-related audit notes now appear on the user form's Audit tab. You can manage which notes appear for a given case.
• Attachment step simplifies attaching files and their categories to cases.
• A search field on the Form Configuration dialog lets you locate specific records from a list returned by a data page.
• Geolocation tracking enables you to capture latitude and longitude information for every requestor action in the audit trail. A Map itlink launches a Google Map that shows where the action occurred.
• Process Modeler property panels have been reorganized so that it's easier to find the fields you're likely to need; for example, the Assignment shape property panel groups actions, routing, SLA, and specification fields at top. Instructional labels beneath the fields describe them in non-technical terms.
• Users can uniformly create ad hoc cases using the standard starting flow pySimpleCaseWorkFlow. The default action contains a dashboard that also enables operators to quickly define tasks and add attachments.
• Users can easily convert ad hoc cases into a case types that can be reused throughout the organization employing the Configure for Reuse feature.
• You can associate SLAs with individual flows within a stage-based process.

Designer Studio

• View a customized list of pinned classes in the Application Explorer without explicitly switching context.
• Deprecate rules and classes in your application to steer users away from unsupported features.
• You can now check out and fix an invalidated rule.
• Use the centralized Find Rules landing page to pinpoint rules in your application or system.
• Use the UI Tree tool in Designer Studio and at runtime to view the hierarchy of artifacts on a page.
• Some rules and classes have been deprecated.

Project Delivery

• Add attachments to requirements using the Application Profilelanding page or Requirement rule form.
• Use the Application Document Wizard to generate project artifacts. Generated documents now include: embedded ERDs, an interactive Stages and Processes diagram, and all flows without restrictions.

  
User Interface

• Single Document Dynamic Containers are now created with frames disabled by default.
• Read-only fields can be marked as an email, URL, or phone numberin the Read-Only Format settings.
• Column Properties include the ability to add a property for sorting and filtering a column that contains a section include.
• Column headings can now be aligned with the column data.
• Improvements to dynamic layouts let you specify refresh conditions and use natural label widths.
• The UI Kit ruleset allows you to build or customize responsive user interfaces with rules and skins based on the latest standard Pega UI.
• Customizable modal templates can be used wherever a modal dialog is launched.
• Stacked layout group lets you stack items in a customizable, responsive format.
• The X-UA-Compatibility meta tag setting can be specified on harnesses to override IE Compatibility View setting.

Reporting

• Reduce the load on the main database by running reports against the alternate database. The control is on the Data Access tab of the Report Definition.

  
Integration

• When you create a REST integration, you can create a data page (and its related data type and data transforms) at the same time. The data page uses the integration as one of its sources.
• Give your users the convenience of single sign-on authenticationwith SAML 2.0.

  
System Management

• PRServlet is no longer required in a URL when accessing PRPC. A URL formerly written like this:

http://example.com/prweb/PRServlet?[QueryString]Can instead be written like this:
http://example.com/prweb/?[QueryString]