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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By : Reinier van Altena
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By: Reinier van Altena

Overview of this book

This practical guide on no-code development with Betty Blocks will take you through the different features, no-code functionalities, and capabilities of the Betty Blocks platform using real-world use cases. The book will equip you with the tools to develop business apps based on various data models, business processes, and more. You’ll begin with an introduction to the basic concepts of the Betty Blocks no-code platform, such as developing IT solutions on various use cases including reporting apps, data tracking apps, workflows, and business processes. After getting to grips with the basics, you’ll explore advanced concepts such as building powerful applications that impact the business straight away with no-code application development and quickly creating prototypes. The concluding chapters will help you get a solid understanding of rapid application development, building customer portals, building dynamic web apps, drag-and-drop front ends, visual modelling capabilities, and complex data models. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of building your own applications as a citizen developer using the Betty Blocks no-code platform.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Citizen Development
4
Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
10
Part 3: Building Your First Application
15
Part 4: The Pro-Coder

Creating the Task page

In this section, we will create a task page that provides an overview of tasks. We’ll add the functionality to create a new task as well.

Opening the page builder

In the builder menu on the left side of your screen, you’ll see a little white page icon. When you hover over it, it should turn blue, just like in the following figure. Click on this icon, and the Pages quick overview should open (see Figure 8.10 and Figure 8.11).

Figure 8.10 – The builder bar with the pages icon selected

Figure 8.10 – The builder bar with the pages icon selected

This quick overview is great for quickly opening the page you are looking for or quickly creating a new page.

Figure 8.11 – An overview of your current pages

Figure 8.11 – An overview of your current pages

But in this case, we want to go to the main Pages overview. Therefore, we need to click on the overview button. This is the gray button with a list view icon next to the search bar, highlighted in the preceding figure. This will open...