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Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 2 · The workspace and your first app

Applications, flows and pages

Lesson 15 of 176 · 3 min

The unit of DEPLOYMENT, the unit of NAVIGATION and the unit of SCREEN. Getting the three the wrong way round is A FIRST-WEEK MISTAKE WITH A LONG TAIL. An APPLICATION is what gets deployed and what a user is given access to. It is the boundary for security, for versioning, and for the whole lifecycle — so "should this be one application or two" is a question about who uses it and how it will be released, not about how big it is. A FLOW IS THE UNIT OF NAVIGATION AND IT IS THE ONE PEOPLE GET WRONG. A group of related pages a user moves between — a list, a detail, an edit form. Flows are the structure of the application, and getting them wrong is what makes a large application unnavigable later. A PAGE IS ONE SCREEN, AND IT IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE THREE THAT IS…

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In this module: Module 2 · The workspace and your first app

  1. 1The designer, and the four places you will live
  2. 2Applications, flows and pages
  3. 3Your first application, start to finish
  4. 4Preview, and what it is not
  5. 5The visual designer and the code behind it
  6. 6Naming, and why it matters more than it should
  7. 7The browser tools are your real debugger
  8. 8What breaks: the first-week mistakes
  9. 9Lab briefing · Build it, run it, break it