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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

You're reading from   Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder Boost productivity by building web and mobile applications efficiently using the drag-and-drop approach

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569805
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Jain Ankur Jain
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB
2. Chapter 1: What, Why, and How (WWH) of Visual Builder FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Provisioning and Understanding the Visual Builder Instance 4. Chapter 3: Exploring Visual Builder Ingredients 5. Section 2: Working with Data and Services
6. Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Business Objects 7. Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Service Connections 8. Chapter 6: Building Web Applications Using Real-World Examples 9. Chapter 7: Working with Life Cycle Events, Validations, and UI Logic 10. Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components
11. Chapter 8: Exploring Other Visual Components and Their Advanced Functionalities 12. Chapter 9: Extending Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS Applications 13. Chapter 10: Working with Business Processes 14. Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples 15. Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting
16. Chapter 12: Securing VB Applications 17. Chapter 13: Understanding and Managing Various Stages of a VB App 18. Chapter 14: Best Practices and Recommendations for VB Applications 19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting and Debugging VB Applications 20. Chapter 16: Managing VB Apps Using Visual Builder Studio 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring events and Action Chains

Events play an important role when you work on the web or a mobile application with any technology and help you to make the application interactive. Events are fired on any actions that happen inside the application. Events may occur on page load, application load, button click, value change of the components, and so forth. After an event occurs, a few actions can take place, such as calling another page, doing some clean-up work, refreshing the variables, calling an external API, and so forth.

Similarly, in VB, events and actions also play an important role and make the application interactive. So, it becomes important to understand events and Action Chains as they are both the basic building blocks of VB.

Events

Visual Builder offers various events to which the application can react in order to execute a series of actions to perform various tasks. These tasks can include calling another event, calling an external REST API, changing the...

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