How Pega Constellation Simplifies the Way We Build UIs

In older versions of Pega — especially before Constellation — the property and the UI control used to display or capture its value were treated as two separate entities.

For example, if you defined a property called Age, you had to manually create a section, drag a Text Input control into it, and then configure it to use the Age property. For a simple task like capturing an age, you were performing two separate steps and linking them together — a process that was both time-consuming and repetitive.

With Pega Constellation, this approach has been completely streamlined. Now, you simply define a field within your Case Type, set its data type (for example, Integer), and that’s it — the system automatically associates the appropriate UI control. Wherever you use that field, Constellation intelligently renders the correct input component.

This design unifies the field definition and its UI behavior, making implementation simpler, faster, and more consistent across applications.