Effortless app development with oracle visual builder : boost productivity by building web and mobile applications efficiently using the drag-and-drop approach / Ankur Jain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jain, Ankur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai : Packt, [2021]

Biography/History:

Jain Ankur: Ankur Jain is passionate about learning new technologies and exploring new things on his own. He has worked on a number of different technology stacks, including Oracle OIC, VB, API Platform, Oracle SOA, OSB, WebCenter Content, and Java. He has implemented various projects on Oracle Integration and the Visual Builder. He has earned various prestigious awards and recognition from different groups and communities, including Oracle's elite Oracle ACE program. He has become a spotlight member of the Oracle Cloud community, UKOUG has published an article in PTK issue number 73, the tech edition, he is OIC certified, and has been selected as a speaker to present a paper at the Groundbreakers Yatra, organized by AIOUG. He is a prolific blogger and YouTuber, helping thousands of users to learn.

Summary:

This book covers all aspects of VB that will help you to jump into real-world projects quickly and work independently. You'll work with various end-to-end examples to help you reduce your R&D time during VB projects, and learn about the drag-and-drop approach to enable you to build an app in a day.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Foreword

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Exploring and the Building Blocks of VB

Chapter 1: What, Why, and How (WWH) of Visual Builder

Technical requirements

Introducing VB

Reviewing the features and benefits of VB

Knowing the tools required to use VB

Knowing the technologies used in VB

Understanding the VB architecture

Summary

Questions

Chapter 2: Provisioning and Understanding the Visual Builder Instance

Provisioning a VB instance

Creating an instance using Quick Start

Creating a custom instance

Creating users and assigning roles

Adding a user to IDCS

Assigning a role to a user

Deriving the cost of using VB

Accessing the VB instance

Accessing VB via the Visual Builder instance page

Accessing VB using a direct URL

Exploring various navigations of VB

All Applications

Settings

Certificates

Chapter 3: Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients

Creating a VB application

Understanding Business Objects

Working with Business Objects

Exploring Service Connections

Various options to create a Service Connection

Understanding variables, their types, and their scopes

Understanding implicit objects of VB

Exploring events and Action Chains

Events

Action Chains

Actions inside an Action Chain

Understanding the application's structure

Understanding the various editors and the application designer

Section 2: Working with Data and Services

Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Business Objects

Creating and modifying a Business Object

Creating a Business Object

Modifying a Business Object

Adding a formula to a field

Creating a relationship between Business Objects.

Creating business rules in a Business Object

Creating Object Triggers

Creating Field Triggers

Creating Object Validators

Creating Field Validators

Creating Object Functions

Managing Business Object data

Exporting bulk data

Importing bulk data

Importing data from a different database

Importing a Business Object

Exploring Business Object REST APIs

Resource APIs

Resource Cache Control

Endpoints

Switching to a different database

Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections

Managing backends in visual applications

Overriding the backends

Adding a new backend

Creating application profiles

Creating a Service Connection from a REST endpoint

Creating a No code API account

Creating a Service Connection from an endpoint

Creating a Service Connection from a service specification

Creating a Service Connection using an inbuilt catalog

Creating a Service Connection with Integration Cloud

Creating a Service Connection with Oracle Cloud Applications

Managing Service Connections

Adding a server to the Service Connection

Adding more endpoints to the Service Connection

Chapter 6: Building Web Applications Using Real-World Examples

Building a web application and connecting it to the Business Object

Creating a web page to read all employees

Creating a web page to onboard a new employee

Creating a web page to update existing employee details

A button for deleting the selected employee

Testing the web application

Connecting a web application with external REST APIs

Creating a Service Connection with an external API

Creating a new web page

Listing the data from the external API

Changing the default flow and the default page of a flow.

Navigating between pages, flows, and passing parameters between pages

Navigating between pages

Navigating between flows

Passing parameters between pages

Working with JavaScript

Creating a new page

Writing a JavaScript function

Registering an event on buttons and calling a JS function

Chapter 7: Working with Life Cycle Events, Validations, and UI Logic

Exploring life cycle events

vbBeforeEnter

vbEnter

vbBeforeExit

vbExit

Loading data on page load

Creating a type and an ADP variable

Registering the vbEnter event and loading the Employee Business Object data

Populating the Employee Business Object data

Showing a parent-child relationship on a page

Creating a table to populate the addresses

Implementing the logic to show the address of the selected employee

Enabling client-side validation on forms

Creating a new web form

Creating JavaScript to validate a form

Implementing logic to validate a form and insert data into a Business Object

Working with various UI logic

Hiding/showing UI components

Calculating fields

Enabling a logout feature

Validating an input component using a regex

Creating dependent Lists Of Values

Further reading

Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components

Chapter 8: Exploring Other Visual Components and Their Advanced Functionalities

Developing an editable table

Populating the table from the Business Object using the ADP variable

Registering events on the table

Implementing the logic to support inline editing in a table

Adding a button to save all modified records

Enabling sorting, column resizing, searching, and pagination in a table

Enabling/disabling sorting on the table.

Enabling/disabling column resizing

Filtering data from a table

Implementing pagination

Working with dialogs

Using the dialog component

Opening and closing the dialog on an action

Implementing the logic to delete a user

Working with checkboxes

Creating a checkbox with static data

Creating a checkbox with dynamic data

Working with List View

Showing data in the Card Layout view

Working with visualization components

Creating a bar chart

Creating a pie chart

Creating an area chart

Chapter 9: Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications

Extending a Salesforce application

Pre-requisites for extending the Salesforce app

Creating a Service Connection

Listing and creating accounts

Listing opportunities

Creating opportunities

Extending an Oracle Cloud application

Adding an accounts REST endpoint

Listing and updating the accounts

Adding nomination functionality

Creating a multilingual application

Configuring an application to set the selected language locale

Generating translatable strings

Downloading and uploading the bundle

Adding a language switcher

Chapter 10: Working with Business Processes

Adding the Process backend

Registering the business processes

Initiating the process from the VB application

Managing process tasks

Extracting the data object

Configuring a connection to a process server

Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples

Developing a mobile application

Developing a doctor's appointment mobile application

Booking an appointment

Listing the appointments

Configuring mobile application settings.

Enabling PWA support for mobile applications

A few restrictions regarding the PWA app

Defining a build configuration for different devices

Build configuration for Android

Build configuration for iOS

Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Chapter 12: Securing VB Applications

Understanding authentication roles and user roles

Enabling anonymous access

Anonymous access for web or mobile applications

Anonymous access for Business Objects

Anonymous access for Service Connections

Creating and managing user roles

Enabling role-based security

Enabling data security

Understanding Service Connection authentication and connection type

Identity propagation

Fixed credentials

Configuring basic authentication for a mobile app

A few restrictions when using basic authentication for a mobile app

Chapter 13: Understanding and Managing Various Stages of a VB App

Managing the VB application

Glancing at the different application statuses

Versioning of the VB application

Cloning the VB application

Promoting the VB application

Exporting the application

Importing the application

Staging and publishing the VB application

Staging the VB application

Publishing the VB application

Adding team members to the application

Chapter 14: Best Practices and Recommendations for VB Applications

Best practices and recommendations for enhancing an app's performance

Reusability of the Action Chain

Environment-specific values

Using the Run in parallel action

Caching the Select (Single) data

Regular restaging and republication

Using application profiles.

Optimizing the application.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781800569478

1800569475

OCLC:

1244626539