Preview, Share, and Publish Your Extension

As you design and develop your application, you’ll want to test it and see how its pages look and function. You can do this using Live view and Preview, but both these views are visible only to you. When you’re ready for others to see your work, share your application to give others a chance to try it out. Then, when you’re done making changes, publish your application to make your changes public.

VB Studio provides different options to view and test your extension at any point during the development process.

• When you’re still working on your application’s pages, use Live view to make real-time edits (for example, to adjust layout and styles on a page), test interactions (for example, to see what happens when a button is clicked), and visualize changes right as you’re making them in the Page Designer. When your app is more or less complete, use Preview to open your application in a separate browser window and test overall layout and functionality, without affecting your actual users. See Preview Your App UI.
• When you’re ready to share your changes with others, use Share to generate a URL that your team members can use to test your application. See Share Your App UI.
• Once your application has been thoroughly tested, use Publish to make your changes public. The Publish action commits your changes to the Git repository, and either deploys directly to your Oracle Cloud Applications instance or kicks off the package and deploy jobs for your extension. (These jobs were created for you automatically when you created your workspace.) You’ll see a few messages pop up in the Designer telling you when each job starts and finishes. See Publish Your Extension and View Your Deployments.