Chapter 03
The parts of a screen
Pega has names for everything on a screen. They are less scary once you see them in place. Here is one screen, with every part labelled.
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Words you will meet
- View
- Template
- Field
Explore
A screen, labelled.
This is a stand-in for a real Constellation screen. Click any part to see what Pega calls it, what it means in the restaurant, and whether you can build your own.
Order #1042
Table 7
What Pega calls this
Case
One piece of work, from start to finish. Everything on this screen belongs to it.
In the restaurantThe order ticket.
Can I build my own?Not something you build. You design case types in App Studio.
The shape of it
It is all boxes in boxes.
The easiest way to remember it: each part lives inside the one above it.
- Casethe whole piece of work
- Stagea phase of it
- Stepthe job to do right now
- Viewthe screen for that job
- Layout templatehow the view is arranged
- Fieldone control inside the layout
Your part
Which ones can you build?
Cases, stages and steps are designed in Pega's own tools. The parts you can code are on the screen itself: fields, layout templates and a couple of bigger pieces. Those are the custom DX components. Our button is a field.
The next chapter sorts out the kinds, so you can always tell which one you are about to build.
Your turn
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