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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

Extending a Salesforce application

In this section, we'll extend a Salesforce application's functionality using the VB. In order to extend a Salesforce application, a new web application with the name salesforceext_chapter9 is created under the VBCSBook application. While creating this application, select Tabbed as the navigation style and add two navigation items with the names Opportunity and Account as per the following screenshot:

Figure 9.1 – A new web application to extend Salesforce

Figure 9.1 – A new web application to extend Salesforce

The salesforceext_chapter9 application will be created with two flows with the names Opportunity and Account. We'll manage (list and create) Salesforce opportunities under the Opportunity flow and accounts under the Account flow.

Pre-requisites for extending the Salesforce app

In order to extend the Salesforce application, the following are required: