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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569805

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

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Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ankur Jain

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

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

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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

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