In this blog article, we will see how to add log levels for different loggers and also group the loggers into a log category for easy maintenance purposes. Let’s start with the logging framework. What is a logging framework? – Logging framework is a utility designed to standardize the process of logging in the application. […]
Compliance Score, Guardrail Warnings and Custom Warning
In this article, we will talk about the application quality metrics – Guardrail warnings and compliance score. We will also see how we can add/suppress guardrail warnings for different rule types. This tutorial is demonstrated using Pega 8.5.1 personal edition. Application Quality Think an insurance providing organization wanted to use Pega software to build a […]
Libraries and Functions – Usage and Configurations
In this blog article, we will create a new library and a new function rule. We will also see different ways of referencing function rule. Before continuing, it is highly recommended to cover the basics of functions and libraries from another blog article. Requirement: For this tutorial, I am going to use a simple Java […]
Libraries and Functions – Fundamentals
In this blog article, we will talk about the basics of functions and libraries in pega. Functions in programming language – Function is a block of reusable code that is used to perform a single related operation/action. – Functions usually accept input data, process the data and then it may return a result. – Different […]
Dynamic Layouts – Usage and Configurations in Pega
In this blog article, we will focus on the HTML content part of the Pega application, specifically on the dynamic layouts, which is one of the most commonly used layouts in the section configuration. Consider any application/website built over any programming language. The key building blocks on high level will be HTML + CSS + […]
Application settings – Usage & Configurations in Pega
In this blog article, we will see how we can use the application settings rule in pega. Application settings rule was introduced in Pega 8.3 version. In the previous releases, application settings were called the rule system settings. Please visit my previous blog article, to understand more about the system settings. What is an Application […]
Add JNDI Datasource for External Database Connection
In this blog article, we will see how we can add a JNDI datasource and also create a new Pega database instance using the JNDI datasource to connect to the external database. This tutorial is demonstrated using Pega 8.5.1 personal edition. Okay, first let’s look into the out-of-the-box pega database instances. Records -> SysAdmin -> […]
Understand Log4j2 and Create Custom Appender
In this blog article, we will see how Pega uses the Apache Log4j2 library logging features, and also we will create our own custom appender or a custom log file. This tutorial is demonstrated using Pega 8.5.1 personal edition. As a Pega developer / Architect, we always tend to look into the log files for […]
History writes and case auditing in Pega
In this blog article, we will see how case history can be added for auditing purpose. We will also add auditing on field level to track the changes in any case specific values. Audit trail gives a good picture of the case life cycle. We can track back what happened within the case from the […]
Docker – Part 4 – Run Pega as a docker container
This is the final blog article on Docker series, where we will see how we can run a Pega docker container. I strongly recommend you go through all the 3 previous articles on Docker for better understanding. If you are a docker expert, then no need 😉 https://myknowtech.com/tag/docker All the commands in this post can […]









