Oracle by Example brandingPublishing an Application in Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service

section 0Before You Begin

This tutorial shows you how to publish an application. This tutorial takes approximately 5 minutes to complete.

This is the second and last tutorial in the Staging and Publishing an Application module. Read the tutorials sequentially.

Background

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is a visual development tool for creating web and mobile applications by simply dragging and dropping user interface (UI) components onto a page. You can create business objects with the click of a button, and you can add data by importing CSV files or XLS spreadsheets to your application. You don't need any programming experience to develop an application.

In this series of tutorials, you will stage and publish the Human Resources (HR) application that you created in the Create your first application module.

The images in this tutorial sequence show the standalone version of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service. If you are using the Oracle Integration Cloud version, you will see an additional menu at the top of each page that lets you switch between Visual Builder and Integration Cloud.

Top menu
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What Do You Need?

  • Access to Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service
  • A supported browser (see Known Issues for Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service for more information)

section 1Publish the Application

After you have successfully tested the staged application, you can publish it and make the application live. The live application is visible to users with proper credentials.

  1. Return to the Home page.
  2. Click the Action menu icon of HR Application 1.0 and select Publish.
    Home page action menu
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  3. In the Publish HR Application 1.0 dialog box, select Include data from Stage, then click Publish.
    Publish Application dialog
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    The application takes a short time to publish. After the application is published, notice that the application icon has changed in the Home page.

section 2View Your Published Application

  1. Click the Live link to open the published application.
    Live application link
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    The schema and the data from the staging database are copied to the live database. You can now share the application's URL with public users.
    Live application on Home page
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  2. If you want to, click the user menu in the top-right corner and select Sign Out from the menu. After you've published an application, you will no longer be able to make changes to it. Instead, you can create a new version of it, and edit that.

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