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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Managing end users with the Users application

The Users application is where we manage the end users of our OutSystems applications. Here, we can create and edit users, manage their status and role assignment, and unlock them.

To perform these operations, the current user must have the UserManager role, otherwise, they will not have access to the features of this application.

In order to facilitate the assignment of roles to multiple users, we can create teams, where we assign the team its given roles, and every end user added to that team will inherit those roles. This way, we can manage the roles that each user must have in a more practical and streamlined way.

Roles created in our applications through Service Studio are automatically visible in the Users application and can be assigned here or programmatically through code in our own applications.

The Users application provides three tabs:

  • Users: In this tab, we can view existing users, access their details ...