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Validating data against business logic

1 Task

10 mins

Visible to: All users
Beginner
Pega Platform '24.2
Data Integration
User Experience
Constellation
English

Scenario

Customers with standard coverage use a credit card to pay for services performed by a service provider. To ensure that credit card transactions are processed correctly, stakeholders have identified that the expiration date must be in the future. Expired cards are rejected, and the process cannot continue until the user provides a valid expiration date.

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

Role User name Password
Application Developer author@gogoroad pega123!
Note: Your practice environment may support the completion of multiple challenges. As a result, the configuration shown in the challenge walkthrough may not match your environment exactly.

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

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

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Configure a View to validate the expiration date is in the future

  1. In the Pega instance for the challenge, enter the following credentials:
    1. In the User name field, enter author@gogoroad.
    2. In the Password field, enter pega123!.
  2. In the navigation pane of App Studio, click Case Types > Assistance Request to open the Assistance Request Case Type.
  3. Click the Enter payment information Step.
  4. In the contextual properties pane on the right, click Configure View.
  5. In the Enter payment information View, click the Conditions tab to add a validation condition to the Step.
    Conditions tab
  6. In the Validate fields based on these conditions section, click Add condition to make the condition entry fields available. 
  7. In the Message field, enter Expiration date is not valid as the message to display if the user enters an invalid expiration date.
  8. In the Select list, select Fields > Payment information > Expiration date.
  9. In the Comparator list, select is before.
  10. On the right, click the Gear icon to open the Select values dialog box to define additional options for the condition.
    Expiration date condition
  11. In the Select values dialog box, in the Type list, select Time period to match the fields as shown in the following image.

    Select values dialog
  12. In the Select values dialog box, click Submit.
  13. In the Conditions View, click Submit.

Confirm your work

  1. In the Assistance Request Case, click Save and run.
  2. Advance the Case to the Enter payment information Step.
  3. In the Expiration date field, enter a date in the past.
  4. On the Enter payment information form, click Submit to attempt to advance the Case.
  5. Verify that the application prevents the Case Type from advancing and displays the Expiration date is not valid error.
    Note: The error message ID may be displayed instead of the error message.
    Payment error

     

  6. In the Expiration date field, enter a date in the future.

  7. Click Submit and confirm that the Case advances to the next Stage.

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