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Posted on July 8, 2019 by MarissaRogers

What Motivates You to Participate Here in the PSC?

Passion to help others
26% (27 votes)
Learn Pega
33% (34 votes)
Participate in Ask the Expert sessions
2% (2 votes)
Get answers to my questions
23% (24 votes)
Get recognized as Participant of the week
7% (7 votes)
Network with Pega professionals
6% (6 votes)
Check out what's new at Pega
4% (4 votes)
Total votes: 104
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Activity vs datapage and report defintion

Question posted by Lalit_Singh on May 16, 2019

Hi Team, I have an activity which was created in pega 6.2 and now we have upgrded to pega 7.4. This Activity just contains obj-browse and few property set and due to compliance we are planning to replace with datapage (Thread level reload per intercation) ...

Java and activitiesUpgrades
Reply posted on May 22, 2019 by Lalit_Singh

Thanks for your response!! Agree we should avoid writing an activity with huge steps because that will be very hard to read and maintain and enchance and that can be achieved with multiple wrapper activity or data transform.My Question was we have a...

Answered

WrongModeException with Property-Set and StringBuffer-Append

Question posted by YujiW777 on April 24, 2019

Hello, everyone. I sometimes encountered WrongModeException when editing Activities, using Property-Set method or StringBuffer-Append method in Pega 7.3.1. The message displayed is as following: "com.pega.pegarules.pub.clipboard.WrongModeException: T ...

Java and activities
Reply posted on May 22, 2019 by Lochan_DVMod

Thanks for the update! I have marked Simon's reply as the Correct Answer.

Answered

Where should I call the Activity which I want to execute when the Case is opened

Question posted by YujiW777 on April 25, 2019

Hello everyone, If I want to execute some Activity at the time the case is opened, where should I call the Activity? Talking about the background, the expected situation is: (1) An approval is Assigned to an Approver (2) After that, the Approver has left ...

Java and activitiesCase management
Reply posted on May 22, 2019 by Lochan_DVMod

Thank you! I have marked Marc's reply as the Correct Answer.

AFP to PDF files conversion

Question posted by SUBHASHIS on April 29, 2019

Is there any way to convert AFP files into PDF. We have a requirement where users will be uploading documents in AFP format and those needs to be sent as email attachment. But before sending those files as attachment, the file format needs to be converted ...

CustomizationJava and activities
Reply posted on May 21, 2019 by Abhinav7Pega

Hi Subhashis, There is no OOTB to convert AMP file to pdf and vice versa. If you want to achieve this then you can send amp file to external system which converts it to pdf through  REST call.Get the response as pdf and then use it. Thanks, Abhinav

Converting PDF (Binary Stream) to AFP format(Printer friendly format)

Question posted by RamprasadM2157 on May 1, 2019

Hello, I have a PDF file as binary stream and i need to convert that to AFP format as the third party solution accepts only AFP formats for printing. Is there any java function to acheive this? Thanks Ram ...

Application developmentJava and activities
Reply posted on May 21, 2019 by Abhinav7Pega

Hi Ram, There is no OOTB to convert AMP file to pdf and vice versa. If you want to achieve this then you can send amp file to external system which converts it to pdf through  REST call.Get the response as pdf and then use it. Thanks, Abhinav  

Answered

Agile Workbench Jira Integration with Custom Priorities

Question posted by morakPega on March 5, 2019

I'm trying to extend the Jira integration with Agile Workbench to include 7 custom priorities, instead of the 5 supported out of the box. I updated the “SetSeverityFromJira” Decision Table to map the Jira Priority IDs to the Jira Priority Field value ...

CustomizationJava and activitiesDecision managementProduct enhancements
Reply posted on May 20, 2019 by BrendanHoran_GCSMod

Thanks @MarissaRogers

Update Status Activity does not update the status in the Case Tasks

Question posted by AnujN348 on September 17, 2018

I am making a call to UpdateStatus activity from a flow action post processing to update the case status. The case status is updated correctly in the DB and in the pyWorkPage as well, but the old status is reflected in the Case Tasks on screen. Please ref ...

Java and activitiesCase managementProcess (flows)User interface
Reply posted on May 20, 2019 by ZeynepGultekinn

Hello; I am posting my solution as dear Marissa advised me to;  "The newAssignPage.pyAssignmentStatus should be updated (and saved) too, whether the newAssignPage is of a Worklist or a Workbasket type." May be marked as the correct answer by...

Uploading an Excel file and transfer the contents to Pagelist Properties.

Question posted by SunnyS62 on May 15, 2019

Hi, I have a requirement where i need that user upload an Excel file and then i need to append all the contents of a single column into 1 pagelist and similarly for other columns. thanks ...

Application developmentJava and activitiesUser interface
Reply posted on May 18, 2019 by SuryaPrakash

Everyone suggest to use MSOParseExcelFile (hahaha) but that is last thing we do in activity before that there is prerquisite steps you need to configure. Follow my steps as described as below Create Pagelist Item       Ex: DataInfo Create excel file...

How to add Facebook Webview in Pega Facebook channel

Question posted by SarathPrashanth on May 4, 2019

Hi All- I have built a Messenger Bot. Conversation works fine without a glitch. The only constraint i have right now is, the UI/CSS/HTML which is available in the Pega won't carry forward to messenger, because of that all the response becomes like a ...

Conversational channelsJava and activitiesPega Platform
Reply posted on May 17, 2019 by Vikas@MultichannelPega

FB does not display UI from Pega or from any other source for that matter in a messenger window, that is why all the text is marked down to simple text.  You may try sending a markdown text, see if that displays text in desired format. I'm tagging...

Is there a feature to convert the HTML stream into Word document Byte stream

Question posted by VinodAthina on May 16, 2019

Is there a feature /Solution in pega to convert the HTML stream into Word document Byte stream like the way we are generating the pdf stream from the HTML steam (using "HTMLToPDF" OOTB activity). ***Edited by Moderator: Lochan to update platform ...

Application developmentJava and activitiesUser interface
Reply posted on May 17, 2019 by ShikharA

Hi, Please check the below link: https://community1.pega.com/community/pega-support/question/generate-word-document-out-word-template-server-side-and-attach-work The idea is that the word document can be generated by including the HTML in sections and...