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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 a subview to your view

First, we’ll discuss what a subview is and what it is used for in this section. Then, we’ll see how we can add subviews and what kind of options they have. We’ll also set up a view and then add data into a subview.

What is a subview?

What are subviews exactly? A subview is a view on top of your primary view that has a relationship with another model. This can be any kind of relationship. We have already added the Customer model as a view to our Back Office. So, in this case, we’ll consider that to be our primary model. Our Customer model has a relationship with Addresses. We want to be able to see and add addresses to our customers. This is where the subview comes in.

Adding a new subview

You can add subviews in the view of your customer when you activate Builder Mode (with the wrench icon or the E key) and open one of your customer records. On the right side of the slider that opens, a button called Add subview...