Multi select in Landing Pages for data type records

User Experience
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In Landing Pages - there is a list of ingredients via data type and user wants to select 4 of them via checkbox and have a global “Compare” action to compare Ingredients..

So my understanding is “Compare” on data records is not available as a component so will need to be a custom DX component…

However multi select in Landing Pages for data records is that possible or doable?

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@Salil the only landing page capability where you can “select multiple” is when you have a List of Cases (List View) and that has Bulk Actions enabled.

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However, this is about selecting multiple cases and then taking individual actions on each case, in bulk. For example, Approve action, would just approve all the items in the list - in the background it is processing each one by one with that action. In your case you are trying to select each item to take a single action “compare”.

So, in this case, you effectively have a Data Reference (Multiple Records) that you want to Compare against and you’d need a case to do it. In the case of a Landing Page > List View, this does not support multiple selections of data records to launch a single case. You would need to build a DX Component to do that.

  • In my head, the DX Component would handle selecting the items to compare, creating a “Compare Tool” case, and passing the selected items.
  • From there, Pega OOTB case management would take over.
    • In a stateless architecture, you’d need the case to do all the processing (data transforms, data modelling etc). You’d likely also need a case to do other things in the future - maybe we want to spin off other cases/processes when we notice something during comparing.
    • Trying to do this fully inside a DX component would be costly and hard to maintain

Compare DX Component (for Case)

You might want to have a look at this example from the Pega GitHub (open source)

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@MarcCheong - Thanks for the detailed response