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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

You're reading from   Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks Build powerful applications that impact business immediately with no-code app development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230993
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reinier van Altena Reinier van Altena
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Preface 1. Part 1: Citizen Development
2. Chapter 1: What Can You Build with Betty Blocks as a Citizen Developer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Collaboration between Citizen Developers and Coders Using Betty Blocks 4. Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
5. Chapter 3: Governance on Betty Blocks 6. Chapter 4: An Introduction to Data Modeling 7. Chapter 5: The Page Builder 8. Chapter 6: Creating a New Application from a Template 9. Chapter 7: Prototyping an Application 10. Part 3: Building Your First Application
11. Chapter 8: The To-Do Application 12. Chapter 9: The ToDo Application – Actions and Interactions 13. Chapter 10: Case Management Application 14. Chapter 11: Case Management – Pages and Actions 15. Part 4: The Pro-Coder
16. Chapter 12: Pro-Coder Features 17. Chapter 13: The Back Office 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding what a data model is

What is a data model? In short, a data model determines the structure of your data. The Betty Blocks platform consists of models, which have properties. Data models can also have relationships with each other. A data model is basically your database within the platform where you can store all the information your application needs or needs to store. So, what does this mean exactly if you have never used a data model or database before? Let’s take a look at an example and try to present it in a way that you would normally see in a data model or database.

An example of a data model

Let’s take a customer as an example. You want to create a data model that can hold different customers. You want to keep track of your customers and have them all in an app so you can quickly look them up and find their information or add more information to them. So, you would start by creating a Customer model in your data model. In a model, you can...

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