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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By : Aniruddha Loya
Book Image

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By: Aniruddha Loya

Overview of this book

Amazon Honeycode enables you to build fully managed, customizable, and scalable mobile and web applications for personal or professional use with little to no code. With this practical guide to Amazon Honeycode, you’ll be able to bring your app ideas to life, improving your and your team’s/organization’s productivity. You’ll begin by creating your very first app from the get-go and use it as a means to explore the Honeycode development environment and concepts. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and organize the data to build and bind an app on Honeycode as well as deconstruct different templates to understand the common structures and patterns that can be used. Finally, you’ll build a few apps from scratch and discover how to apply the concepts you’ve learned. By the end of this app development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to build and deploy your own mobile and web applications. You’ll also be able to invite and share your app with people you want to collaborate with.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Honeycode
7
Part 2: Deep-Dive into Honeycode Templates
13
Part 3: Let's Build Some Apps

Chapter 9 – Event Management Template

Exercise 1

Currently, in the A_Sessions table, data from the Location and Capacity columns is added manually for each session that is added to the table. To keep the mapping consistent, we need to have a single place where the data for the location and its capacity can be added. This exercise can be done in two ways.

Solution 1

Perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new table and name it M_Locations.
  2. Rename the first column of the table Location and the second column Capacity.
  3. Fill this table with unique Location values from the A_Sessions table along with the correct Capacity value in the respective columns:

Figure 9.1 – The M_Locations table

  1. Select the Location column in the A_Sessions table, set its format to Rowlink and picklist, and select the M_Locations table as the source. This will change the format of the entire column and automatically convert the cells into...