Pega V5.4 Features

Add-ons Menu in Tools Menu:

Using XML rules, you can add items to the menu structure of the Developer portal. Your menu choices appear in the Tools > Add-ons menu group

New Methods for Activities:

Three new methods for activities provide simpler, higher-performance alternatives to the Obj-List method for efficiently searching and selecting objects from the PegaRULES database.The three methods:

Obj-Browse :- Use the Obj-Browse method to search instances of one class and copy the entire instances, or specified properties, to the clipboard as an array of embedded pages.
Obj-Filter :-Use the Obj-Filter method to filter the embedded pages of a results page (such as a Code-Pega-List page produced by the Obj-List, RDB-List, Obj-List-View or Obj-Browse methods) based on one or more when condition rules.
Obj-List-View :- Use the Obj-List-View method to execute the retrieval and sorting operations, but the not the formatting and display processing, of a list view rule.These 3 methods improve CPU, Memory, DB demand performances compared with Obj-List (deprecated in v5.4)

Refactor on Import menu:Use the Refactor on Import wizard to rename classes in a RuleSet archive or product archive as it is imported. This allows you to integrate the imported class structure into the existing class hierarchy on your system.For example, you could import a RuleSet or Rule-Admin-Product containing features developed for another Process Commander project and rename the classes to integrate with the inheritance patterns in your application.

Shortcut Keys:

To speed user input, developers can define a keyboard shortcut for buttons on a work object form, as defined by harness rules This is an optional capability available in all applications, and is recommended for accessible applicationsThe ampersand '&' can be located anywhere in the button caption. The letter following the ampersand '&' will become the shortcut key for the button .To use a custom-defined shortcut key for a button, hold the Alt button while pressing the appropriate key. For instance, if you defined a shortcut key for a create button with ampersand '&' located before the 'c' in create, you would press ALT+C in order to activate the create button

Smart Labels:SmartLabel is a label on a harness, section, or flow action form that provides a pop-up window when the user holds the mouse pointer over the label text. A SmartLabel can be useful to provide users with runtime explanations for a field. The contents of the pop-up window are defined by a section rule, which can contain conditional fields, be localized into multiple languages, and so on.

Integration with MS Outlook Calendar:

Two standard flow actions SendMeetingRequest and GetAppointmentList allow direct interconnection with the appointment calendar in Microsoft Outlook.

SendMeetingRequest - Send a meeting request- Local Action to send a meeting request to the group of email ids.

GetAppointmentList – To get the list of meeting appointments with given email id of a userTo enable Process Commander to communicate with Microsoft Outlook, you must add these local actions to your existing work flow.The user who executes the flow action must have Microsoft Outlook installed on their workstation. The first time a user selects Send Meeting Request, Process Commander uses the PegaOutlookAddInCaller ActiveX control to register with Microsoft Outlook.


Test Manager from Run Menu:

When Automated Testing is enabled, you use the Test Manager portal to schedule the running of test suites and to examine their results. This window contains three tabs:

Dashboard — Lists the results of all the test suites that were run for you in the past five days.
Suites — For the test suite you select, displays the results from each time it ran for you in the past week.
Schedule— Lists all the test suites in the system and lists those that are currently scheduled to be run. Use this tab to schedule the test suites.A test suite, less commonly known as a validation suite, is a collection of test cases that are intended to be used to test a software program to show that it has some specified set of behaviors.

A test suite often contains detailed instructions or goals for each collection of test cases and information on the system configuration to be used during testing.