Question
Upgrading User Interface from PEGA 5.5 to PEGA 7.1.7
Hello,
We are planning to upgrade PEGA 5.5 application to PEGA 7.1.7 and I am working primarily on upgrading different user interface elements to leverage the new PEGA 7.1.7 features. We grouped user interface elements that needs to be upgraded into following categories. I have some questions on how to automate some of these UI upgrade process.
- Section Rules : Section contains different items that needs be upgraded and I think we need different strategies for different items. We have lot of section rules and we are trying to identify how can we automate some of these manual processes.
- Inline CSS - Inline CSS needs to moved to the appropriate component in the PEGA 7 skin manually and I think it's very difficult to automate this process and it has be manual, is that correct?
- Deprecated Controls - We are using OOB Activity to upgrade standard controls and for some custom controls we are creating a data transform rule to copy all the deprecated control parameter values to new PEGA 7 control parameters.
- Old Layout formats - Is there anyway we can convert old layout formats ( Free form, Smart) into PEGA 7 Dynamic Layouts Programmatically?
- Flow Action Rules : We are using pxShowBulkFlowActionDisplayactivity to upgrade most of the old flow actions. This Activity creates a section with the same name and links the section to the flow action.
Any feedback/inputs are appreciated.
Thanks
Narendra
***Updated by moderator: Marissa to close post***
This post has been archived for educational purposes. Contents and links will no longer be updated. If you have the same/similar question, please write a new post.
Hi
From your query, i understand that you basically have concern related to UI component and to be specific with (1) Inline CSS, (2) Deprecated Control, (3) Old Layout format and (4) Flow action rule.
Well, I dont have any specific answers / suggestions against the ideas you proposed, however, if I have to run such an upgrade, I would prefer to follow the below steps :
1) Soon after completing the upgrade, run the post-upgrade configuration as documented in the page 31 of the upgrade guide : https://pdn.pega.com/documents/pega-717-upgrade-guide
2) Once done, perform the post upgrade activity present in the upgrade landing page :
3) Post that, run the Application GuardRail wizard and get a list of rules where a warning is associated . This should ideally list the rules having inline CSS, Deprecated control and old layout
4) Once we get the list , we can open the rules and fix them manually.