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[Video] Pega Advanced Customization

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Pega UI isn't Rocket Surgery 2! Can we customize a Pega application as a CMS? Yep! With Pega Advanced Customization you can design for Pega as for any CMS like Joomla or Wordpress.

[Video] Pega Standard Customization

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Pega UI isn't Rocket Surgery! This is an old video using Pega 7.2 created to show that Pega is powerful enough to accept custom design making a friendly and simple user interface without too much effort using Pega OOTB tools.

Creating PDF from HTML with Pega

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PDF is one of the most used formats for documents on the Web and often there are requirements to create PDFs. In this article, you will learn step by step how to create PDF from HTML, how to customize the PDF and how to solve the problem of page break for PDFs with a dynamic structure. HTMLtoPDF vs eForm Pega has two traditional ways to generate PDF: HTMLtoPDF and eForm . eForm is the easiest way to generate PDF if you have a PDF template and you just need to map the properties and values to the template but you are limited by the template and cannot use dynamic contents like Repeat Layout, Repeat Grid, dynamic images and so on. In another hand With HTMLtoPDF you don't have too many limitations but you have to create the PDF section by section and customize the appearance as well and generating a great effort. The   HTMLtoPDF is the most powerful way to generate PDF and we're going to talk about this one. HTMLtoPDF core Pega uses a third-party so...

Using JavaScript to Mask Inputs with Pega

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The mask guides the user to type the correct value into the input field improving the user experience and mitigating errors on the client side. You will learn how to add JavaScript mask in your Pega application step by step. Before using JavaScript mask You should be aware before using any third party script that it may generate conflicts with internal scripts of Pega so be careful always while using these scripts. You should perform some tests with scenarios using action sets like 'OnChange + Post Value' to verify if the OOTB functionalities are working as expected with the masked field. Importing mask scripts to your Pega application Download the JavaScript library of your chose to use in the application. For this example, we're going to use the following library: https://igorescobar.github.io/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/ Note : Pega already has shipped with the product Jquery and JqueryUI so you don't need to install them. Create a Text File rule:  Create ...