1. Building Responsive Applications with Visual Builder Studio
  2. Connect Applications to Data
  3. Work with Business Objects
  4. Manage Business Object Data During Development

Manage Business Object Data During Development

VB Studio provides tools such as the Data Manager to help you manage the data stored in business objects while developing your visual applications.

In VB Studio, your visual application's code is managed separately from the data stored in the application's business objects. So deploying your application to the Visual Builder instance will deploy your application code, but not the data stored in the business objects. Some exceptions are:
  • When you enable a business object to contain application setup data. In this case, the business object's data is considered required for the application to function properly, so the data is always included when you export or publish the application.
  • When you share an application and choose to include development data from your workspace.

In most other cases, you'll need to manage your visual application's data separately.

For visual applications that are yet to be deployed to the Visual Builder instance, you can use the Data Manager to import business object data from a file into your visual application, export all data from your visual application to a file, or create a new business object in your visual application by importing a file. To access the Data Manager, open your visual application workspace, click the Options menu in the Navigator's Business Objects pane, and select Data Manager.

Open Data Manager Screen

For visual applications that are deployed to the Visual Builder instance, you can use the Deployments tab in the Environments page to import or export business object data. You can also automate this task by configuring build jobs to import or export the data. If the Visual Builder instance that hosts your deployed visual application is in a different identity domain, you can import or export the business object data only by configuring build jobs.

Note also that the Oracle Deployment step in your visual application’s deployment job includes a Data Management option to determine whether your visual application is deployed with the data from your environment, or whether it uses a clean database. See Configure the Deployment Job in Administering Visual Builder Studio.