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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By : Ankur Jain
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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By: Ankur Jain

Overview of this book

Organizations are moving their applications, data, and processes to the cloud to reduce application costs, effort, and maintenance. However, adopting new technology poses challenges for developers, solutions architects, and designers due to a lack of knowledge and appropriate practical training resources. This book helps you get to grips with Oracle Visual Builder (VB) and enables you to quickly develop web and mobile applications and deploy them to production without hassle. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of VB so that you can adopt it at a faster pace and start building applications right away. After working with real-time examples to learn about VB, you'll discover how to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly. You'll cover all the VB components in-depth, including web and mobile application development, business objects, and service connections. In order to use all these components, you'll also explore best practices, security, and recommendations, which are well explained within the chapters. Finally, this book will help you gain the knowledge you need to enhance the performance of an application before deploying it to production. By the end of this book, you will be able to work independently and deploy your VB applications efficiently and with confidence.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB
5
Section 2: Working with Data and Services
10
Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components
15
Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Developing an editable table

An editable table is a table that allows you to update records inline. This is a very common requirement in every web application that allows users to update records inline. So, in this section, we'll develop a page with a table that allows us to update the records inline.

We'll use the following steps to achieve this (developing an editable table) use case:

  1. Populate the table from the Business Object using the ADP variable.
  2. Register events on the table.
  3. Implement the logic to support inline editing in a table.
  4. Add a button to save all modified records.

We'll look at the aforementioned steps in the following sections.

Populating the table from the Business Object using the ADP variable

ADP type variables are basically used whenever you want to implement functionality such as search, update, sort, and so on. So, we'll create a table based on the ADP variable. Refer to the Loading data on page load section...