Merging pre-upgrade Skin rule with Pega7 skin
Is there any best practice approach to follow when we need to merge existing pre-Pega7 skin styles for an application with the new Pega7 skin. I did not find much info on the topic during my search, but from what I gather, the best practice is to leverage the OOTB Pega7 supplied skin and make changes in it to suit the app needs. Is there a quick way to do the merging - like directly using pre-upgrade css files etc. directly in the skin rule - rather than manually reviewing and making changes to formats etc. which will be a high effort task?
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Pegasystems Inc.
IN
What do you mean by pre-upgrade CSS, is it the branding wizard based CSS or Skin rule of 6.3?
What is the level of upgrade being performed - compliance level 1 or compliance level 2?
Will the layouts / controls be updated after the upgrade to Pega 7?
What kind of styles are being done in the custom / hand-coded CSS?
Horizon Systems
US
yes, we need to leverage the styles from the earlier skin rule - not sure whether this was generated using branding wizard. Customer's pega version is 6.2Sp2. It is a Compliance level-2 upgrade with complete UI responsiveness. Yes, layouts and controls are being updated. Basically, customer wants to retain the look and feel for the majority of components even after achieving a level-2 upgrade.
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
You wont be able to use the 6.2 generated CSS in Pega 7 Skin rule as you have done compliance level2 upgrade. you have re implement the branding using Pega 7 Skin.
Horizon Systems
US
Thanks Dhevendra!! I have 2 related queries..
Is there any technical reason why I cannot leverage the existing CSS for compliance level2 upgrades?
What is the way to utilize the CSS if it is not a compliance level2 upgrade?
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
The main reason because is the CSS classess for 5/x/6.x UI Components may be differnt for Pega 7 UI Components so you won't be able to apply them.
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
Hi,
If the Skin is auto-generated then I think it would be automatically updated to Pega 7 Skin.
But, if its a hand-coded CSS then it has to be manually created in Pega 7 using the Skin rule.
We do have an option to map the CSS in the Pega 7 Skin rule as a additional CSS, but it add maintenance overhead.
Cognizant
IN
To answer this question "Is there any technical reason why I cannot leverage the existing CSS for compliance Level 2 upgrades ?"
The earlier skins (V 4 / 5 / 6) were not confirming with CSS Level 3 ( basically they lack cross-browser compatibility). Pega7 uses CSS Level 3 skins only ( to achieve cross-browser compatibility). So the skins from the earlier versions cannot be reused in Pega7.
To answer this question "Post Pega7 upgrade my customer is still insisting on Pega6 look and feel. How can I achieve this ?"
Pega7 has few OOTB skins that look and feel like Pega6.2 and you could build your custom skin by leveraging them.
For example we could customize EndUser62 and build a new skin on top of it. Don't get carried away by the name, its one of the OOTB Pega7 skins which makes your application look and feel like V6.2 also this skin uses "formats / mixins" just like any other Pega7 skin.