Published Release Notes

ShowWarningOnForm is no longer processed

Rule forms now display all warnings, independent of category or type. The standard decision tree Embed-Warning.ShowWarningOnForm is no longer used to determine which warnings are visible.

You can safely remove any specialized versions of this rule in your application.

Noticeable differences between work objects created in the Decision Manager portal when compared to Designer Studio

In the Decision Manager portal, you create work objects by running flows in the enterprise application that serves as the base application for the application overlay. If the enterprise application does not include the UI-Kit-7 in its application rulesets, work objects can display differently in the Decision Manager portal when compared to Designer Studio because an application overlay is always configured to include the UI-Kit-7 ruleset.

Recommendation:

1. Add the UI-Kit-7 ruleset dependency to the enterprise application.
2. Redesign the user interface to comply with the UI-Kit-7 ruleset.

Rollback functionality is limited to latest revision

The rollback functionality in DSM Revision Manager allows customers to roll back the import of the latest revision to their DSM application. Only one rollback is allowed; after a rollback, the rollback option is disabled until the next revision is imported. If importing two (or more) revisions at once then attempting a rollback, the system only rolls back one revision.

Example: a user has a base DSM application. They import Revision 1, and then import Revision 2. Next, they try to roll back both revisions. The system reverts to the Revision 1 version of the application, and the customer cannot revert all the way back to the base application.

System Management Application displaying listeners that do not require any action

After installing or upgrading to Pega 7.1.7, there is an additional available listener (Data-Decision-DNode-Service:Default) that does not require any action. This listener can be safely ignored and you should not use the System Management Application to manage any of its operations or state.

• The Data-Decision-DNode-Service:Default listener is always running on every PRPC node.
• The state of this listener is internally managed by PRPC. Starting or stopping it through SMA does not have any effect on its state.

Screenshot generation runs on local client

If you generate screenshots to include in your application document, this process still runs on your local client. Additionally, you are still required to use Internet Explorer to use this feature.

Warning message when opening server-generated documents

Depending on your system configuration, the following warning message might be displayed when you open a document that was generated on the server.

If you click No, certain content (for example, Table of Contents) is not populated in the document. Instead, click Yes and save the document.

The warning message that displays

Number and text input controls on Android devices may not display the correct keyboard

When running a Pega 7 application on a device using the Android operating system, pxNumber and pxTextInput controls may not display when using the desired on-screen keyboard. This happens when the number or text input type is set to number.

At design time, the input type is selected in the Editable Format section of the Presentation tab in the Cell Properties panel for a pxNumber or pxTextInput control. Due to a known limitation in some versions of the Android OS running on some devices, the keyboard displayed at run time may not support entry of decimal values when a Number type keyboard is specified.

To resolve this issue, use the Phone type when numbers with decimal values may be required. Using the Phone type displays a numerical phone keyboard. The Android phone keyboard includes both commas and periods so that decimals may be entered.

The Phone type selected in the Presentation tab of a Number control

Note that this issue only occurs on Android devices. It is recommended that applications for iOS continue to use type=“Number”.

Decision Data Store data sets can be used only on DNodes

Data flows that contain Decision Data Store data sets as the primary or secondary source must be created and executed only on DNodes.

Data flows are not restarted automatically after application server restart

When you restart the application server or the Pega 7 server, you stop the execution of your data flows. The interrupted batch and real-time runs are marked as Failed. 

Recommendation:

• Go to the Designer Studio > Decisioning > Decisions > Data Flows > Batch processing tab and start the failed batch runs.

• Go to the Designer Studio > Decisioning > Decisions > Data Flows > Real-time processing tab and activate the failed real-time runs.

Value list and value group properties are not supported inside data flows

Value list and value group properties are not supported inside data flows, and you need to instead use other property types.

See the Pega 7 developer help to check all available property types.