Custom UI elements in Pega

The Pega7 platform offers a wide range of built in User Interface elements (like autocomplete, rich text editor, charts), but what if you would like to include something that cannot be easily achieved with the default building blocks?

Pega offers the possibility for you to write custom frontend code. Using this feature you can create a component which lets users… play snake!

Of course, you can use these features for more serious purposes too. Think for example of UI components that leverage publicly available APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to help your users during their work.

We have created a tutorial that explains how to create custom UI components.

The end result is a component that lets users select addresses with the help of Google Maps data. It will look something like this:

For the technical details check out our tutorial.