1. Building Responsive Applications with Visual Builder Studio
  2. Get Started
  3. Create Visual Applications
  4. Explore Your Project Environment

Explore Your Project Environment

Almost everything you do to develop a visual application takes place within the Designer. While this development environment connects you to all the resources you need to develop your app, you may need to access your project environment from time to time. It's helpful then to familiarize yourself with some key components in your project.

There's a lot you can—or cannot—do in a project, based on project membership. See Work with Projects in Using Visual Builder Studio for all the details.

  1. If you're on the Organization page, select your project. If you're in a workspace, click Go to project page icon in the header.
    You'll see the Project Home page, which serves as a window to your workspace, your environments, and Git repositories, as well as a recent activities feed.
  2. In the left navigator, click Git to view your project's Git repository.

    A project can host multiple Git repositories. You can view all Git repositories (and branches) from the Repositories drop-down list on the Git page:
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    Use the Git page to view your project's source files in the remote repository.

  3. Click Workspaces to view all your workspaces—though you can view and manage workspace within the Designer as well.
  4. Click Environments in the left navigator to view the project's Development environment that points to your Visual Builder instance. A visual app project will most often have one Visual Builder development environment to which visual apps are deployed.

    Use the Environments page to view your deployed apps.

  5. Click Builds in the left navigator to view the default build jobs that package and deploy your visual application to the development instance. The Visual-Application-Package job generates the visual application's artifact files. The Visual-Application-Deploy job deploys the artifact files to the development instance.
    If you create workspaces with new repos, you'll see other jobs in addition to the default ones.
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    The deployment job's configuration contains the credentials required to deploy your app to the Visual Builder instance. It also defines the application version number used to manage multiple versions during development and data management settings that determine how your app's data is stored in the database.