New Features in Oracle Visual Builder Studio

Here's an overview of new features and enhancements added recently to Oracle Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio).

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As soon as new and changed features become available, VB Studio instances are upgraded in the data centers where Oracle Cloud services are hosted. You don’t need to request an upgrade to be able to use the new features—they come to you automatically.

Release 21.01 - November 2020

Area Feature Description
DevOps Oracle Redwood Design Language The Redwood look and feel that we introduced for the Designer in the last release now extends to VB Studio pages that let you plan and manage your development processes. Redwood is the new Oracle design language standard, which provides a refreshing color palette and a more streamlined user experience.
Blank Built-in free VMs In some OCI regions, VB Studio offers a built-in free VM to run builds, but with some limitations. See VB Studio's Built-in Free Account.
Blank Customization set migration You can now configure jobs and a pipeline to package and deploy an app extension to the Oracle Cloud Application's production sandbox (which was created when you imported CSM data to the production instance). See Create and Configure Jobs to Migrate Your Oracle Cloud Application’s Customizations.
Blank Support for provisioning failures If a provisioning failure occurs after a Visual Builder or FA service instance is added to an environment, the status icon in the Environments page now reflects one of the following states: failed provisioning, provisioning, or timed out. You can then take steps to retry provisioning. See Manage an Environment.
Blank Personal Access Tokens You no longer require a personal access token to add an Oracle Cloud Applications instance or a Visual Builder instance to an environment, or to authorize a job to deploy to the instance. All you need are credentials of a user who can access the instance. Information about using personal access tokens with environments was removed from Using Visual Builder Studio and Administering Visual Builder Studio.
Blank Workspace in a new browser tab You can now open a workspace in a new tab by right-clicking the workspace link on the Project Home page and selecting Open in New Tab. On the Workspaces page, you can get to the same option by right-clicking the workspace link or by using the action menu. Right-clicking a workspace link opens a custom context menu that displays all of the same options as the action menu. This new menu replaces the native browser menu. See What Is a Workspace? and Manage Workspaces.
Blank Document reorganization Managing Your Development Process with Visual Builder Studio has been restructured to better meet the needs of developers and project owners who aren't working with visual applications or applications that extend Oracle Cloud Applications. The guide is retitled to Using Visual Builder Studio to more clearly differentiate it from the administration guide.
Visual Applications Recovery mode When a visual application fails to upgrade because of syntax errors, the Designer now goes into recovery mode. In this mode, you can use tools such as Code View to fix syntax errors and then upgrade your visual application. See Resolve Issues that Prevent Upgrade of Visual Application.
Blank Sitemap for a web application You can now add a sitemap to a web application's resources to provide search engines information about your application's pages for intelligent crawling and search indexing. See Add a Sitemap to a Web Application's Resources.
Application Extensions Form templates for dynamic forms You can now create and apply form templates to dynamic form layouts. You can use form layouts to control how fields in a layout are rendered, as well as the fields the layout contains.

The Templates tab now lists the field templates and form templates that can be used in the dynamic UI artifact's layouts, and you can now create field and form templates from the tab. The new form template designer allows you to add components from the Components palette to your form templates. See Control How a Form Layout is Rendered on the Page.

Blank New Help Hint properties for fields When editing properties for fields, the Property Inspector now contains property fields for Help Hint Definitions and Help Hint URLs.
Blank Column Span property for field groups When editing the properties for groups in the dynamic UI layout editor, you can now specify the group's Column Span property in the Property Inspector.

Release 20.10 - September 2020

Area Feature Description
DevOps Build VMs

  • Build VM templates

    VB Studio now offers three Build VM templates ready-to-use that organization members can use to run builds of their jobs. See What Are Build VMs and Build VM Templates.

  • VM quota and number of VMs running

    While adding a Build VM, users can now see the selected shape's VM quota and the number of VMs running. If all VMs are in use, they can select another shape. See Add and Manage Build VMs.

  • Software for Build VM templates

    New and updated software bundles are available. See Software for Build VM Templates.

Blank Projects
Blank Change workspace ownership Project owners and workspace owners can assign new owners to workspaces they own. See Manage Workspaces.
Blank Visual Builder instance's release version and URL After adding a Visual Builder instance to an environment, in the Service Instances tab, users can now click Expand to see the Visual Builder instance's release version and URL. See Add a Visual Builder Instance to an Environment.
Blank NPM

  • Private NPM registry

    In addition to using the public NPM registry, users can now use a new project-based private NPM registry in Visual Builder Studio. See Set Up and Use the Project's NPM Registry.

  • Manage NPM packages globally

    Users can now add and/or update NPM packages globally, instead of being forced to use local NPM packages, which need to be reinstalled each time a build is run. Being able to add/update global NPM modules will save users from having to perform a full reinstall each time they run a build. See Step 10 in Configure a Job to Build a Node.js Application.

Blank Vulnerability analysis for Gradle projects VB Studio adds support for vulnerability analysis for Gradle projects, similar to what has been offered for Maven and Node.js/JavaScript projects before. The documentation has been merged together, now covering all three types of projects. See Generate a Dependency Vulnerability Analysis Report and Resolve Reported Vulnerabilities Automatically
Blank Manage Build Actions With one mouse click, users can now disable a plugin instead of spending much longer to actually delete it in the job configuration. In addition, users can also quickly and easily remove a job configuration, even if it has been disabled. See Manage Build Actions.
Blank Build parameters and reserved words Users can quickly look up characters and reserved words that shouldn't be used in parameter names. See Use Build Parameters and Reserved Words that Shouldn't Be Used in Build Parameter Names.
Blank Pipeline instance log Users can now display the pipeline instance log without leaving the UI. See Manage Pipelines and View a Pipeline’s Instances.
Blank Create Git merge requests from the command line You can now create merge requests and add reviewers from the command line using git push options. Use the mr.target option to create a merge request for publishing changes from your local branch to a remote branch, and include either the mr.add.reviewer option or the mr.add.defaultReviewers option to add reviewers. See Create a Merge Request from the Command Line.
Blank Trigger a job based on an included or excluded fileset When you've enabled a job to be triggered either on each SCM commit or according to a polling schedule, it's now much easier to configure the job to run based on an included or excluded fileset. Use the job's Advanced Git Settings to specify a list of files and directories to be polled in the Git repository; only changes to these files determine whether a build is triggered or not. See Include or Exclude Files to Trigger a Build.
Blank Wercker build step We will remove support for the Wercker build step from VB Studio in a future release. We recommend that you configure pipelines that currently use the Wercker build step to use VB Studio’s pipelines instead. See Design and Use Job Pipelines.
Visual Applications Oracle Redwood Design System

Web apps that you create using this release of VB Studio now use the Redwood theme, a theme created with the Oracle Redwood Design System. Oracle Redwood Design System is the new Oracle standard for application look and feel. The Designer within VB Studio has also adopted a Redwood theme. See Develop Applications.

Blank Manage runtime dependencies Your applications are no longer automatically upgraded to the new major runtime versions of Visual Builder Runtime and Oracle JET after you instance of VB Studio is upgraded. You decide when to upgrade your applications using the UI that has been introduced for this purpose. See Manage Runtime Dependencies for Visual Applications.
Blank Business object data caching You can now define a caching strategy to safely store your business object's data and improve performance, by editing the Resource Cache Control setting on a business object's Endpoints tab. Because all application data is deemed sensitive, by default, no data is cached. See Control Data Caching for Business Objects.
Blank Version input field in the visual application's Settings editor The Settings editor for visual applications now includes a Version input field where you can modify the value for the version property in the visual-application.json file. See Set Version Information for Your Application.
Blank Audits

  • Status indicators

    Red overlay icons now appear in the Navigator to identify app artifacts that include audit errors. Red underline appears on the Navigator entry and the tab for the file that includes the error.

    Errors are generated for broken variable and type references. Warnings are generated for unused action chains, constants, events, event listeners, types, and variables. For action chains, audits have been added to validate that required fields in the action include values.

  • Oracle JET Audit Framework

    The Audits feature now references up the Oracle JET Audit Framework (JAF) tool and metadata from Oracle’s content distribution network (CDN). You can configure the built-in rules that JAF provides.

See Audit Application Code
Blank Horizontal text tabs for artifacts in the Designer The artifact section tabs for page flows, event listeners, and so on now appear as horizontal text tabs above the artifact instead of as a vertical icon bar. See Understand the Designer.
Blank Status icons in the Designer’s Navigator and Git Panel A series of status icons have been introduced to provide a visual indicator of the status of an application’s file. These icons indicate if a file has yet to be committed to the workspace’s current branch, contains modifications that have yet to be committed, or conflicts with changes from other team members. The Git Panel also includes a new Options menu that provides access to a subset of the Git commands available from the Designer toolbar. See Manage Your Visual Applications With Git.
Blank Create variables You can now create variables from within the Assign Variables dialog that you open from the Action Chains editor. See Add an Assign Variables Action
Blank Mobile applications

  • Deep links for mobile applications

    The Visual Builder Runtime now supports deep linking. Application behavior depends on the app and the environment where the app runs. Android and iOS mobile apps that you build in VB Studio can be opened from deep links. For PWAs, iOS does not support deep links while Android provides ready-to-use support for deep links.

    See Support Deep Linking from Mobile Applications.

  • Adaptive icons for Android mobile applications

    Adaptive icons that display as a variety of shapes on different Android devices are now supported for mobile applications built on VB Studio. The sample application image archive (available in an application's Resources section) includes adaptive icons that you can use as a base when you create custom images for your application. If your application uses an older image archive, VB Studio will try to use those icons as adaptive icons, but it is best to provide your own icons that are in line with Android specifications. VB Studio does not validate your icons and cannot guarantee that they will be compatible.

    See Change the Splash Screen and Icons Used by a Mobile Application and Enable PWA Support.

Blank Action chain tests

The grunt-vb-build NPM package now includes a vb-test Grunt task that runs the action chain tests in your visual application on your computer. See Test Action Chains Using the vb-test Grunt Task.

Blank Upgrade the Oracle Sample R13 SaaS LightBlue Theme If your application uses the Oracle SaaS R13 Light Theme, you need to upgrade the theme in your application before you run the application using this release. See Update Your Oracle SaaS Application Template Theme.
Application Extensions Redesigned workspace creation

The "Designer" item in the main menu has been renamed "Workspaces". The process for creating workspaces for an app extension has been simplified.
Blank Redesigned dynamic UI artifact pages

The dynamic UI artifact page has been restructured to improve usability for navigating to rule sets, fields, templates and editor tabs for working with the layout model.
Blank Support for layout programming model

Support has been added for events, variables, types, action chains, and JavaScript within dynamic component templates.

Dynamic layouts now expose additional components to their programming model. Each dynamic template can bind to events, action chains, variables and functions defined within its layout model. Editors for working with the layout model have been added as tabs to the dynamic UI and page artifact pages.

A variables picker and Events tab have been added to the Property Inspector for components in dynamic templates

In dynamic layout templates, you can now trigger an action chain defined within its layout model. Within the layout's action chain, a "FireCustomEvent" action can now fire a custom event with the new "dynamicComponent" behavior type that you use within the context of a dynamic layout.

See Advanced Techniques for Customizing Your App Extension
Blank Improved dynamic UI rule set editor

The following improvements have been made to the dynamic UI rule set editor:

  • Rule sets are no longer displayed as secondary tabs, but are now displayed in a list in the Rule Sets tab, grouped into either Dynamic Forms or Dynamic Table.
  • A lightning icon is now used to indicate rule sets that are extendable. Rule sets that have been extended are marked with a vertical gray line in the Rule Sets tab.
  • Navigation breadcrumbs have been added in the Rule Sets tab to help with navigating between rule sets and dynamic layouts.

See Determine What's Displayed at Runtime
Blank Create custom fields for dynamic layouts A Fields tab has been added to the dynamic UI artifact page, with an editor for creating custom fields by editing the artifact's metadata. You can now also modify the fields used in the dynamic layout on the client-side by augmenting or replacing the metadata. See Create a Custom Field in Your Dynamic Form or Table
Blank Dynamic form field templates

A Templates tab with a template designer has been added to the dynamic UI artifact page. You can now create your own field templates for customizing how fields in dynamic forms are rendered, and apply your field templates to form fields in dynamic layouts.

The template designer supports nearly all of the Page Designer features, including the Components palette, Structure View, canvas and Property Inspector. The Templates designer supports working with the layout programming model, including support for events, variables, and action chains within templates. See Control How a Field is Rendered on the Page
Blank Improved Page Designer

The Page Designer is now a tab in the page artifact page. The Property Inspector now provides improved support for working with extendable constants, variables and dynamic containers.
Blank Support for dynamic containers

Dynamic container components are now supported in pages:

  • The Property Inspector for page artifacts lists extendable dynamic containers in the page, and provides an editor for configuring the containers' display logic and templates.
  • A template designer has been added for designing display templates used in dynamic containers. The designer supports nearly all of the Page Designer features, including the Components palette, Structure View, canvas and Property Inspector.
  • A container's template designer supports working with the page's programming model, including support for events, variables, and action chains.
  • Quick Starts are enabled for components inside container templates.

Add Components to a Page
Blank Expanded support for constants The default value of constants can now refer to expressions that contain variables.

Release 19.4.3 - August 2020

Feature Area Description
Backend service catalog for Oracle Integration Cloud Visual Builder If the Visual Builder instance that you use in your environment is provided by Oracle Integration, visual applications in VB Studio now inherit the catalog of Integration and Process backend services ready-to-use, without the need for you to manually enter instance URLs in the visual application's Settings editor. You can use the Settings editor to override settings for the inherited catalog. See Manage Backend Services in Your Visual Application.
Corrupted business object resource files Visual Builder Business object resource files that may have been corrupted due to, for example, invalid syntax can now be restored to a valid state by opening a source editor to edit the JSON. See View a Business Object's Endpoints.
Configure authorization credentials for the build job Visual Builder The Publish Changes dialog now notifies you if you need to configure authorization credentials for the build job associated with the merge action of your master branch. It also provides a link to navigate to the build job. See Deploy a Visual Application.

Release 19.4.3 - June 2020

Feature Area Description
Reload Data from Application Sources Visual Builder For business objects that contain application setup data, the Data tab for business objects includes a new menu icon that updates your development database schema with the content of the current version of the entity-data.csv file. See Reload Data from Application Sources.
Backend service catalog for Oracle Integration Cloud Visual Builder If the Visual Builder instance that you use in your environment is provided by Oracle Integration, visual applications in VB Studio now inherit the catalog of Integration and Process backend services if you configure the connection to these backends using basic authentication. See Connect to Integration Applications Backend Service Using Basic Authentication and Connect to Process Applications Backed Service Using Basic Authentication.
Development data can now be included in a shared application. Visual Builder You can now include data that you create during development when you share an app. To do this, select Use development data (My workspace) in the Share Visual Application dialog. See Share a Visual Application.
Allow access to VB Studio virtual machines Developer Cloud Service If you want to restrict access to your internal network or Oracle Cloud Services network by blocking incoming traffic from the internet, but still allow VB Studio Build traffic, you can create a public subnet in your VCN with security rules that allow inbound access from and outbound access to VB Studio. See Create and Configure a Public Subnet in Your VCN.

Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel

The Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel version bundled in VB Studio 20.10 is 2.3. Key enhancements in this version include:
  • Ability to perform coordinated download, upload, and clear operations by linking layouts across multiple "dependent" layouts for business objects with multi-level hierarchies.
  • Option to hide the Design tools, so users who don't need access to those tools can disable them during installation.
  • Ability to control capabilities to perform various standard and custom actions in a layout by enabling or disabling capabilities supported in a layout.
  • Ability to configure a business object to use a base path different from the one shared by business objects in the "Catalog".
  • Ability to add filters to a list of values, so your users can filter a field's list of values.
  • Ability to perform custom actions on a form row in a Form-over-Table layout.

For more information, see Get Started with the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.

Tip:

You can download and install the latest version of the add-in directly from the Downloads page.

Supported Software

Review support for web browsers and other software in this release of VB Studio.

Supported Browsers

VB Studio supports most modern HTML5–compliant browsers.

VB Studio complies with the Oracle Software Web Browser Support Policy and supports the latest version of the browser available, and in the case of IE and Safari, one previous major release. Oracle support is available for all platforms that the browser vendor supports. For mobile device operating systems, Oracle provides support only for the most recent browser delivered by the device operating system.

The following table describes the platforms supported by the Visual Builder runtime:

Operating System Chrome Firefox Microsoft Browser Safari

Android

Supported*

Not Supported

N/A

N/A

iOS

Not Supported

Not Supported

N/A

Supported

Mac OS X

Supported

Supported

N/A

Supported

Windows

Supported

Supported

Supported

Not Supported

* Chrome for Android only, not native Android browser

JavaScript must be enabled for all browsers.

Note:

The Visual Builder Studio Designer is supported by the Chrome browser running on Mac OS X and Windows. Other browsers and platforms are not supported.

Note:

Visual Builder runtime has deprecated the use of Internet Explorer 11. Users who try to access a deployed Visual Builder application from Internet Explorer will now see a deprecation warning. Support for Internet Explorer 11 will be discontinued in a future release of Visual Builder in the second half of 2020.

Supported JET and Oracle Visual Builder Versions

This release of VB Studio uses Oracle JET 9 libraries and components.

VB Studio requires a separate Visual Builder instance that serves as your runtime environment. The Visual Builder instance that you add to a VB Studio environment must be version 19.4.3.1, or later.

Getting Oriented

VB Studio brings you all the functionality previously available with Oracle Developer Cloud Service. You also get the ability to build web and mobile applications in the Visual Builder Designer, as well as to extend certain Oracle Cloud Applications to customize the UI for your business needs.

VB Studio offers end-to-end functionality for your development team, from planning releases and managing development backlog, to hosting source code in Git, to designing, building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications to your Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud instances.

For Former Developer Cloud Service Users

If you were a Developer Cloud Service user, the following table will help you understand the primary differences between Developer Cloud Service and VB Studio:

How Developer Cloud Service and VB Studio Differ? Find out more:
You don’t need to migrate your Developer Cloud Service projects. A VB Studio instance replaces your Developer Cloud Service instance, and you can continue to use your existing projects and corresponding DevCS features just as they are, without any impact to you. Using Oracle Developer Cloud Service has been restructured and rewritten for VB Studio and is now called Managing Your Development Process with Visual Builder Studio. If you’re an administrator, you’ll want to check out Administering Visual Builder Studio as well.
VB Studio comes equipped with the Designer, a graphical user interface that enables you to develop web and mobile apps using components from the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET). To test these applications, or to release them for production, you must deploy the apps to a separate Visual Builder instance, which serves as the runtime environment.

Of course, you can still use VB Studio to build apps with a third-party IDE or code editor and use VB Studio as the code repository, just as you did with DevCS. You can also use VB Studio to test, deploy, and maintain those apps throughout their lifecycles—nothing’s changed there.

Building Web and Mobile Applications explains how to use the VB Studio Designer to build web and mobile apps.
If you purchased Oracle Cloud Applications subscriptions that have front ends built with JET components, you can also use the VB Studio Designer to extend those apps to customize them for your business needs. See Extending Oracle Cloud Applications.
Developer Cloud Service used tags to associate service instances with environments. In VB Studio, you’ll need to add service instances again to environments, because the service instances associated with the environments were removed as part of the upgrade. The environments themselves were not removed, just the service instances associated with them.

For information about how to add a service instance to an environment, see Manage an Environment.

For Former Visual Builder Users

In VB Studio, you still use the Designer to create your visual applications, but the infrastructure surrounding that process has changed significantly, as described here:

How Visual Builder and VB Studio Differ? Find out more:
In VB Studio, you and your team belong to an organization. Within that organization are projects, which help to organize the work for a given endeavor. A project contains a Git repository, where your source code is stored, along with build jobs that package up your app’s artifacts and deploy them to the target environment. Each project also contains tools to help you manage your visual application’s lifecycle, like an Agile board, issue tracker, team wikis, and more. What Is Oracle Visual Builder Studio?
Whereas Visual Builder used to contain the runtime environment where you could test and deploy your visual applications, VB Studio requires you to have a separate Visual Builder instance to serve as your runtime environment, and to establish communication between the two services.

VB Studio manages the runtime environment instances that serve as your development, test, and production environments in the Environments page. Within the Environments page, you can view the status of the various service instances that have been added to your environment.

If you’re an administrator, see Set Up VB Studio for Developing Visual Applications to find out how to hook up your runtime to VB Studio.

If you’re an app developer, see Share, Publish, and Deploy Visual Applications.

Your work in the Designer now takes place in a workspace, which is an entirely private area within a project that only you can access. The workspace brings together everything you need to build your visual app: a private branch within the Git repository and a VB Studio environment that points to your Visual Builder runtime instance. If you’re an app developer, see Create Visual Applications in VB Studio.
If you want others to collaborate with you in developing your project's apps, your project owner will need to add them to the project and you’ll need to commit your workspace to a branch in a Git repository that is shared with these project members.

To facilitate collaboration, the Designer in VB Studio includes built-in support for Git with a Git menu in the toolbar that accesses the Git commands you’re likely to use most frequently (Pull and Push, for example). There's also a new navigator tab (Git Panel) that provides a view to uncommitted changes in your workspace, and tools to resolve issues when your changes conflict with other changes in the Git repository branch that you want to commit to.

 If you're a project owner, see Add and Manage Project Users. If you're an app developer, see Manage Your Visual Applications With Git.
In Visual Builder, the Stage and Publish actions were key parts of your development cycle. In VB Studio, however, you use Share to share your application with others for testing purposes, and Publish to push your changes from your local Git repository to the master branch of your remote repository (that is, the project's version) and deploy it to the Visual Builder runtime environment.

If you’re an app developer, see Share a Visual Application and Manage Deployed Visual Applications.

For business objects, VB Studio maintains one database schema per workspace. As a best practice, we recommend that you use the same workspace and branch to create and edit business objects in a visual application. See Work with Business Objects.
VB Studio provides the following options to manage your visual application’s business object data:
  • Menu options to import and export data. You access these options from the Visual Applications tab for the deployed visual application in the Environments page
  • Build jobs to import and export business object data
See Manage Business Object Data During Development.
You can use the visual applications you built in Visual Builder within VB Studio by importing them, then performing a few post-import tasks. See Learn About Migrating to Oracle Visual Builder Studio.
VB Studio manages connections to backend services differently to Visual Builder, where a Visual Builder administrator added these services to the Tenant Settings page.

In VB Studio, the steps to create a connection depend on the backend service. If your visual applications need to access REST services from an Oracle Cloud Applications catalog, you add the Oracle Cloud Applications instance to the runtime environment.

If the Visual Builder instance that you use in your environment is provided by Oracle Integration, visual applications in VB Studio inherit the catalog of Integration and Process backend services.

See Manage Backend Services in Your Visual Application.
The grunt-vb-build NPM package includes tasks to build visual applications that you develop in VB Studio and deploy to a Visual Builder runtime instance:
  • The vb-process-local task processes the sources of the visual application that you cloned from VB Studio’s Git repository to your local Git repository for usage in the Visual Builder runtime instance. The vb-process-local task replaces variables and placeholders in index.html, downloads libraries from the Component Exchange, and so on. The archive that the vb-process-local task produces does not include absolute links to the Visual Builder runtime instance.
  • The vb-credentials task transfers the credentials (service connection information and mobile build configurations) from secure storage in VB Studio to the target Visual Builder runtime instance.
  • The vb-deploy task deploys the environment-independent artifact that the vb-process-local task produced to the target Visual Builder runtime instance and inserts environment-specific information, such as URLs and Oracle Identity Cloud Service information. The vb-deploy task also produces native mobile packages, if your visual application includes mobile applications.
If you want to use the Grunt tasks described here to build and deploy a visual application to a Visual Builder runtime instance, see Build and Deploy Your Application.
Although you’ll now do almost all the administration tasks for your visual applications in VB Studio, someone with administrator privileges for the Visual Builder runtime needs to sign in to the Visual Builder runtime to do certain tasks. Examples include configuration changes to connect your Visual Builder runtime to an Oracle DB instance with more space, or to configure a custom domain if users access an application deployed on the Visual Builder runtime from a custom app URL. If you’re a Visual Builder runtime administrator, sign in to the Visual Builder runtime to complete the following tasks, that are described in Administering Oracle Visual Builder.

Extending Oracle Cloud Applications

If Oracle built your Oracle Cloud Application using Oracle JET, you can extend that app to customize it for your business needs.

To find out if you have such an app, see if you have an Edit Pages in Visual Builder option in your Oracle Cloud Application’s edit menu. If you do, click it to jump over to VB Studio and start creating your application extension. To help you along the way, have a look at How Can Visual Builder Studio Help Me Extend My Oracle Cloud Application?

Like everything built in VB Studio, the source code for your application extension is stored within a project’s Git repository, and you work on your own branch of that repo in the context of your own private workspace.

Upgrade Policy

We strongly suggest that you upgrade and republish your apps from time to time, not only to take advantage of the new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements that come with each new release, but also to reduce the risk of possible incompatibilities between the Visual Builder Runtime and JET libraries you built your app with in the Designer, and the Visual Builder instance to which you deployed your app in Oracle Cloud. What does this mean? Suppose you built and deployed your app using Visual Builder 18.4.1. Since then, Visual Builder has upgraded its target deployment environment several times—from 18.4.1 to 18.4.5 to 19.1.3 and so on—and your app has continued to run on those instances with no issues. However, when the 19.4.3 instance becomes available (for example), your app suddenly stumbles on an incompatibility between your 18.4.1 runtime dependencies and your 19.4.3 deployment environment—simply too much has changed between the time you built the app and the capabilities in the latest target deployment instance. To avoid this, it’s a good idea to upgrade and re-publish your apps as frequently as your schedule allows. This entails opening your app in the Designer to uptake a new Runtime Version/JET library (and, optionally, taking advantage of some of the latest features), testing it with the latest Visual Builder deployment target, then republishing your app to that instance.

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