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Sourcing a page property with a keyed Data Page

3 Tasks

10 mins

 Visible to: All users Applies to: Pega Platform '25
Intermediate
Data Integration
English

Scenario

To help applicants select the correct position during the Submission Stage, recruiters ask that the description of an open position to be displayed when an applicant selects the open position.

Use a keyed Data Page to display the selected position. Configure the D_PositionList Data Page for keyed access and use it to display the job description.

The recommended tasks to complete this challenge are:

  • Update the configuration of the D_PositionList Data Page to access individual position information with the position identifier.
  • Configure the Position property to refer to the D_PositionList Data Page and use the PositionAppliedFor property as the key value.
  • Mark Job Description property as relevant record and add it to the CollectPersonalDetails view.

The following table provides the credentials you need to complete the challenge.

Role User name Password
Senior System Architect SSA@TGB pega123!
Note: This challenge does not have a demo video. Please refer to the Detailed Tasks for step-by-step instructions to complete the challenge.

You must initiate your own Pega instance to complete this Challenge.

Initialization may take up to 5 minutes so please be patient.

Detailed Tasks

1 Configure keyed data access for the Data Page

  1. In the Pega instance for the challenge, enter the following credentials:
    1. In the User name field, enter SSA@TGB.
    2. In the Password field, enter pega123!.

  2. In the Dev Studio, Data Explorer, open the D_PositionList Data Page.

    Position Data type
  3. In the Keyed page access Section, select the Access pages with user defined keys check box to enable keyed page access.

  4. In the Page list keys field, select .ID.

    Postion list data page configuration

  5. Save the Data Page.

2 Refer to the keyed Data Page

  1. Open the Position property of the Candidate Case Type.

  2. Click on Convert to advanced configuration and change the Data Page field to point to D_PositionList and specify the PositionAppliedFor property as the key. 
    Position property configuration
  3. Save the property.

3 Add the position job description as a read-only field

  1. Open the Position > Job Description property of the Candidate Case Type.
    App explorer showing the candidate > position > job description property
  2. Mark the property as a relevant record.
  3. In the App Studio, select the Candidate Case Type.
  4. In the Collect Personal Details Step, click Configure User Action to update the View.
  5. Add Position > Job Description field to the View and configure the Job Description field as Read-only.
    Job description property configured as read-only
  6. Rearrange the fields as shown in the following image.
    Collect Personal Details view configuration
  7. Save the Case Type.

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