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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

Creating users and assigning roles

Every application (OIC, VB, API PCS, and so on) in Oracle Cloud has pre-defined roles but only a few of the roles are mapped to the pre-defined role of VB.

Each and every VB instance has pre-defined roles with certain responsibilities. A role allows users to perform different actions inside the VB tool. The following table lists pre-defined roles of Oracle Visual Builder:

Table 2.2 – Pre-defined roles of Oracle Visual Builder

Table 2.2 – Pre-defined roles of Oracle Visual Builder

In the following sections, we will learn how to create a user.

Adding a user to IDCS

In order to assign roles to a user, a user must exist in Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS). The following are the steps to create a user in IDCS:

  1. Log in to IDCS using the following URL: https://<unique_idcs_identifer>.oraclecloud.com/ui/v1/adminconsole.
  2. Click on Users from the dashboard.
  3. Click on the + Add button.
  4. Enter the details as follows and click on the Finish button...