Page Change Class - Data Transform

[Nirmalya.SenSharma]

Unlike Activity rule, Data transform doesn’t have anything equivalent of ‘Page-Change-Class’ method.

Moreover, if you use a Set action against a page type property (e.g. pyWorkPage.CustomerData) to change its class, it will clear/reset the existing content of the page while changing the page class.

In absence of any appropriate OOTB function or API activity rule to achieve this from a Data transform, you may create a simple function rule with two input parameters -

• PageName (String)
• NewClassName (String)

boolean isSuccess = false;
PublicAPI tools = ThreadContainer.get().getPublicAPI();

ClipboardPage targetPage = tools.findPage(PageName, true);

if (targetPage != null)  {
  ClipboardPage tempPage = tools.createPage(NewClassName, "");
  targetPage.putAll(tempPage, ClipboardPage.PUTALL_KEEPNEW);
  isSuccess = tools.getDictionary().validate(targetPage, false);  
}

return isSuccess;

This function can be used to change class of both Top level and embedded pages without losing existing data on such pages.

Thanks

[Agnibha_Roy]

@Nirmalya.SenSharma Thank you,

We tried using Data Transform and Activity rule as well and it worked, same thing in pega rules

One utility where Step page and class name were parameterized , and calling the same utility from DT using @executeactivity function.