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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

Working with checkboxes

The Checkbox Set component is a useful component that allows us to select multiple options at a time and process the data based on the selected checkbox. Checkbox Set is an out-of-the-box component that allows you to create checkboxes and can be populated with static or dynamic data. Let's play with the Checkbox Set component.

Creating a checkbox with static data

In this section, we will use the Checkbox Set component and populate it with static data. The following are the steps to create checkboxes using static data:

  1. Create a new page with the main-checkbox page ID under the chapter8 web application.
  2. On the main-checkbox page, drag and drop the Heading component and set the Text property to Static Checkboxes.
  3. Drag and drop the Checkbox Set component just below the Heading component. Once you drop the Checkbox Set component, a single checkbox with the label Option1 will be created by default. Set the Label Hint property to My favorite...