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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

Adding your first model to the Back Office

We’ll see an overview of the Back Office in this section, then we’ll start making some changes to the Back Office ourselves by adding a new view and a subview to it.

Exploring the Back Office

In this section, we’ll explore the Back Office. I’ll show you where to find it and what it is used for primarily.

So, where can you find the Back Office on the platform? In the builder bar, on the left, it’s the fourth icon from the top (see Figure 13.1):

Figure 13.1 – The Back Office icon in the builder bar

Figure 13.1 – The Back Office icon in the builder bar

Click on the Back Office icon and it should take you to the Back Office. As you might notice, it opens a second tab in your browser and loads the Back Office in a different environment. The Back Office is one of the first parts that was built for the platform and is still in the platform’s Classic interface, which loads from a different URL. But no worries, everything...