Add a Connection to Oracle Cloud Applications
The list of REST services in the service catalog of a visual application is retrieved from an Oracle Cloud Applications backend service. Specify the instance URL of the Oracle Cloud Applications backend service in the Tenant Settings page.
All visual applications in the tenant will use the Oracle Cloud Applications instance URL specified in Tenant Settings, but a visual application can be configured to use a different Oracle Cloud Applications backend service by specifying a different instance URL in the Backends tab (which you access from the Navigator's Services tab). The tenant-level backend configuration is ignored if you or a visual application developer configures a different Oracle Cloud Applications backend service in a visual application’s Backends tab.
- Basic Auth: Uses a fixed username and password for authentication.
- Oracle Cloud Account: Needs federation between Oracle Cloud Applications and Visual Builder.
- Delegate Authentication (previously called Propagate Current User Identity): Same as Oracle Cloud Applications. That is, it needs federation between Oracle Cloud Applications and Visual Builder.
- None: This assumes your Oracle Cloud Applications REST API can be called without any authentication, which is not usually the case.
See About Authentication and Connection Type in Developing Applications with Oracle Visual Builder.
If the necessary prerequisites for setting a tenant-level Oracle Cloud Applications backend service are not available, then a visual application developer can set up a backend service at the visual application level where more options are available. Another option is for you (the service administrator) to configure the Oracle Cloud Applications backend with None
and let the visual application developer override the authentication setting at the visual application level.
To specify an Oracle Cloud Applications service for the tenant: