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Your new case stores the document data and the document originals exported from ABBYY FlexiCapture.
Create your Pega application before you add a case type. For more information, see Create your own Pega application.

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Create the case type

1

Add a case type

Click the Cases tab on the left, and then click Add a case type.
2

Name the case type

In the Add case type dialog box, type a name for your case type, and then click Submit.
3

Add the fields

On the Data model tab, add the fields to be handled by your case.To work with table data such as invoice line items, also add a field of type Field group (list). In the Options column, specify the data type you created earlier for this type of data.For more information, see Create a data type.
4

Save the case

Click Save to save the newly created case.
5

Adjust the case views

To change the data displayed in your case in different views, click the Views tab, and then click Submit when you are done.
6

Register the case in the connector

Specify the full name of the case in the Templates field of the connector configuration file.The full name is made up of the full name of the application and the name of the case type, in the format Organization-Name of application-Class-Name of case type. To find the full name of the application, click the App tab on the left.

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Case views

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Add a Delete button to the case

To be able to delete the case, add a Delete button to its user interface.
1

Open the case information section

Click the App tab on the left. Click the name of the case type to expand it, and then navigate to User Interface → Section → pyCaseInformation.
2

Add a button control

On the Design tab, click Add new and add a new Button control.
3

Caption the button

Click the gear icon next to the new Button control to open its properties. On the General tab, replace the default text in the Button caption field with Delete.
4

Add the click action

In the Cell Properties dialog box:
  1. Click the Actions tab, and then click Create an action set.
  2. Under Action set 1, click Add an event and select Click.
  3. Click Add an action → All actions and select Run activity from the Other category.
  4. In the Activity field, type DeleteCase as the name for the new activity.
  5. Open the new activity and click Create and open.
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Configure the DeleteCase activity

On the Edit Activity form:
  1. Click the Parameters tab and add a new CaseHandle parameter of type String.
  2. Click the Steps tab and add the Obj-Delete-By-Handle method.
  3. Select the boxes next to Lock, ReleaseOnCommit, and Immediate.
  4. In the value field of the InstanceHandle parameter, type Param.CaseHandle.
  5. Click Save.
6

Set the case handle and cancel action

  1. Type .pzInsKey in the CaseHandle field.
  2. Click Add a condition and add a Cancel action.
  3. In the Transition field, select Go home, which returns the user to the list of cases.
  4. Click Submit.
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Save the case

In the case editor, click Save to save your changes.
The new Delete button appears in the case user interface. Clicking it deletes the case and closes its page. To update the list of cases, click Refresh.