PEGA Installation and Panels Explanation

PEGA Installation:

PEGA Installation is very straight forward. JDK (PEGA was built using Java), Server and DB will comes with the PEGA zip file. You can download get the download of PEGA Personal Edition Software from here . You will get mail with the link to download from PEGA after subscription. Simply follow the wizard and finish the installation. You need to make sure that the existing java in your machine compatibility with the pega version.

There are two editions of PEGA software.

• Personal Edition
• Enterprise Edition

There are very little differences between these two editions. You can configure any server and db in Enterprise Edition but not in Personal Edition.

After installation you need to start and login to the application from the icons will appear on the desktop post installation.

Default Login details:

• Username: Adminstrator@pega.com
• Password:  install

PEGA Tool Explanation:

You can the above image, total screens are divided into 4 panels

• Header Panel
• Explorer Panel
• Work Panel  
• Footer/Toolbar Panel

Header Panel

• Designer Studio: Application settings, deployment tools, data table creation, User Interface gallery, reporting settings, integraraion, services, resources, org settings, security settings, connection wizards, email wizards.
• DCO (Direct Capture of Objectives) – Application Express
• Launch: There are 3 operators/portals by default will provide by PEGA. 
• Admin/Developer
• Manager 
• User
• Create: create will be used to running the application
• Search: To search anything in PEGA
• ChekIn/Checkout: version control in PEGA
• Recent: to see recent opened activities
• Operator: you can see the data related to Operator. 
• Access Group: is tells us that which portal access does the operator has and which roles he has and so on…

Explorer Panel

·         Recent: recent activities

·         Cases: Shows the modules in the application.

·         Data: all the data tables will be display here

·         App Explorer: All the rules creation will be happen from here.

·         Records: It shows the Hierarchy of the apps

·         Private: same like checkIn/checkout

·         Favourite: bookmarked items will be shown here.

Toolbar Panel

·         Tracer:

·         Clipboard:

·         UI Inspector:

·         UI Tree:

·         Performance

·         Alerts

·         Inspector Pref