Regarding pyWorkpage in clipboard
For example, consider an application to process automobile insurance quotes. To price the quote, you need to know the accident history of the driver. Each accident record is an instance of a specific data type. You create a report to return the accident history for a driver, and use a filter to return only accidents for the driver requesting the quote. If the report filter uses the UserName property from pyWorkPage, you must tell the report the class for pyWorkPage. This allows Pega to reference the UserName property and the report filter functions as intended. Otherwise, Pega assumes that UserName is part of the data type, rather than the case, and the filter does not work correctly.
CAN ANYONE GIVE EXPLANATION TO THIS EXAMPLE
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hello,
I was able to identify that the passage you have included above is from System Architect Essentials 7.2, Module 8 - Data Model Design, and the Lesson - Reviewing Application Data.
I'm looking at the passage in the context of the lesson.
Can you provide a clearer question for us to answer? Are you asking about reports? classes? clipboard?
Regards,
Tara
Self Study Support Team
Pegasystems Inc.
SG
You create a class MyCo-Ins-Work-AutoQuote for the case type AutoQuote, and define .UserName to hold the value of the driver.
You also create a class MyCo-Ins-Data-AccidentHistory to hold records of all the accident histories for each driver. A report definition is created in the AccidentHistory class, and the properties are therefore limited to what is defined in the class. If you need to filter the number of records to only that of the driver, you will use a condition where .UserName = pyWorkPage.UserName. pyWorkPage should represents the AutoQuote record, so you need to define it as such in the Pages & Classes tab of the report definition.
Now, the why... to understand why, you need to understand a few key concepts:
You create a class MyCo-Ins-Work-AutoQuote for the case type AutoQuote, and define .UserName to hold the value of the driver.
You also create a class MyCo-Ins-Data-AccidentHistory to hold records of all the accident histories for each driver. A report definition is created in the AccidentHistory class, and the properties are therefore limited to what is defined in the class. If you need to filter the number of records to only that of the driver, you will use a condition where .UserName = pyWorkPage.UserName. pyWorkPage should represents the AutoQuote record, so you need to define it as such in the Pages & Classes tab of the report definition.
Now, the why... to understand why, you need to understand a few key concepts:
- All cases are maintained in the pyWorkPage in the clipboard.
- The pyWorkPage clipboard page is "classless", and can represent any class. Think of it like a fresh page of paper, there is nothing written on it and there is no formatting. For example - http://www.dick-blick.com/items/102/40/10240-1009-1-2ww-m.jpg
- To allow you to add data to the pyWorkPage clipboard page, you will need to first define a format, i.e. a class. The class' data model will provide the structure and formatting to allow you add data to the pyWorkPage. For example, we can turn a blank page of paper into an auto insurance quote form - http://www.redsnapper-lanta.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Fresh-Car-Insurance-Quote-27-On-Love-Quote-with-Car-Insurance-Quote.jpg
- Without defining the structure/formating of the pyWorkPage using an appropriate class, you cannot add data to the page correctly.
So, going back to the original requirement, i.e. for your Report Definition to get the .UserName value from an AutoQuote case, you will first need to:
- define pyWorkPage in the Pages & Classes tab
- configure pyWorkPage to be a page of MyCo-Ins-Work-AutoQuote
- use pyWorkPage.UserName to get the value from the case