Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 3 · Pages, flows and navigation
What breaks: three navigation failures
Lesson 31 of 176 · 3 min
A BACK BUTTON THAT LOSES WORK, A DEEP LINK THAT OPENS AN EMPTY PAGE, and A FLOW SPLIT SO LATE THAT HALF THE PAGES HAD TO MOVE. THE BACK BUTTON THAT LOSES WORK IS THE ONE USERS REPORT ANGRIEST. A form half filled in, a stray press of back, and everything typed is gone — because navigation was pushed where it should have been replaced, or because the page held its draft in state that does not survive leaving. Lesson 2, and the fix is cheap once anybody tests the interaction at all. THE DEEP LINK THAT OPENS AN EMPTY PAGE IS THE ONE THAT NEVER FAILS FOR THE PERSON WHO BUILT IT. The page reads a variable the list page set, so it works every time you click through and never when the URL is opened directly. Lessons 3 and 5, and it is reported as "the link is…
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In this module: Module 3 · Pages, flows and navigation
- 1Flows: the unit that decides your structure
- 2Navigating between pages
- 3Passing data when you navigate
- 4The shell page and what belongs on it
- 5Deep links and the URL
- 6Layouts, and the page that grew
- 7Building for somebody who did not build it
- 8Accessibility, from the start
- 9What breaks: three navigation failures
- 10Lab briefing · Four pages that hang together