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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Actions

We’ve already created actions before, but they had all been rendered for us. We haven’t taken a deeper dive into them yet. This is the time to do so and start understanding actions better as we’ll start modifying and creating our actions now.

Actions are basically the backend logic of your application, so where normally a programmer would write backend code to support their application, you can do this with the Betty Blocks actions. Actions are made to automate processes and provide logic in your application. The logic is executed when certain events are triggered: a user clicks a button or sets the timer for some event to happen at an exact time. You can create your own workflow in the action builder by adding action steps. Action steps will serve as a logical construction, as the events will be carried out on conditions that you set yourself.

All the basic steps you would like to do with actions are there by default, such as creating a new record...

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