Pega - Upgrade from Pega 6 to Pega 7

Replacements for deprecated UI components

The following table lists the Pega 7 Platform UI component that replaces each deprecated UI component.

Deprecated UI component	New Pega 7 Platform UI component
Fixed Portals	Composite Portals
Work Areas	Dynamic Containers
Smart, Custom, Freeform Layouts	Dynamic Layouts
Row Repeats, Data Grid	Repeat Grid or Repeating Dynamic Layouts
Menu Bar	pxMenu
Dynamic Select, PromptSelect	pxDropdown
Autocomplete	pxAutocomplete
Branding Wizard, Inline Style, and custom CSS	Skin Rule
Embedded List Views	Report-definitions and repeating grids
Rich Text Editor	CKE Editor
HTML Directives	JSP Tags
pxLocalAction	data page
Cascading Dynamic Select	pxDropdown

 

HTML5 Readiness & UI Auto Upgrade Utilities

HTML5 Application Readiness Landing Page	UI Auto Upgrade Utilities
·         Need to run Revalidate & Save utility to populate this info ·         Lists all harnesses using custom JavaScript or CSS ·         Lists all non-Auto-generated sections ·         Lists all sections using deprecated controls, layouts and inline styles	·         Upgrading Deprecated Controls ·         Upgrade Work Area to Dynamic Container ·         Upgrade Smart Layouts to Dynamic Layouts ·         Remove inline styles ·         Convert pre-6.1 Flow Actions

 

Application Upgrade Utilities
The following utilities identify potential issues with your Application rules on the new release.  It is recommended that you run all of these utilities, however, not all steps may return results for your Application.
Utility		Description
Convert Flow Actions		Lists and converts pre 6.1 version flow actions to make them compatible with 6.1 and higher versions.
Upgrade CSS		Lists and converts CSS file to make them compatible with HTML5 Document Type.
pyActionArea conversion opportunities		Harness rules created in releases before V6.1 may reference the older and less flexible Work-.Action section, or one of a few other action sections. While the V5 Work-. Action section (and other standard action sections included in V6.1) remains functional and supported, the Work-.pyActionArea is recommended.  Refer PDN article
General Utilities
The following utilities are available for identifying general issues with your application.

 

Utility		Description
List dynamic select captions with " "		Shows dynamic select control occurrences that have    in the default caption.
List Sections having " "		Shows all Sections containing  

 

Applications that are built on the Pega 7 Platform are cross-browser compatible because the rules that are used in the applications are HTML5 and CSS3 compliant. Applications that were developed in PRPC 6.x might have rules that contain custom HTML code that is not compliant with HTML5 and CSS3. Incompatible custom HTML code hinders the cross-browser compatibility of such applications.

Before you upgrade your PRPC 6.x applications, run the Deprecated HTML report to identify custom HTML code and update the code to be compatible with HTML5 and CSS3.