Visual Builder Studio is all about Visual App Development– Visual Page Design, Visual Business Objects, Visual CI\CD pipeline and a lot more.  

It is a browser based, low code, easy to use tool that we use to develop Oracle’s Cloud Applications and now you can use the same to extend our offerings.. i.e. You use the same powerful tools we do! How cool is that? To make it even better, Oracle Cloud HCM comes with a free instance for VB Studio!  By making our industrial strength tools available to you, we ensure that you get all of the same resources that we use to produce high quality experiences for your customers. 

Starting 23D Cloud HCM customers can use VB Express Mode which is a business-user friendly option within VB Studio. Business-users can now perform customizations\extensions via upgrade safe method using easy-to-use Business Rules UI. 

VB Studio Architecture

 

VB Studio Architecture

 

  • Cloud native – Cloud native architecture and browser-based platform
  • Easy to use- Focus on simplification through visual and declarative development approach
  • Complete life cycle- Agile driven team development platform with complete CI/CD chain
  • SaaS integrated- Access Oracle Cloud Applications data and processes via service catalog. Enrich applications with engaging custom UI
  • Extensible – Extendable platform through standard JavaScript, HTML, CSS and REST

Developer Services and CI/CD Platform

  • Issue tracking
  • Agile and sprint execution
  • Team collaboration features
  • Git source version management
  • CI/CD Pipelines

CICD

Visual App Extensions

You can easily extend any of the Redwood pages by editing them in VB Studio.

Edit Page in VB

Browser based IDE for Visual app extensions

VB Express Mode - IDE

Extensibility Use cases for VB Studio

  • Make a field read-only or editable
  • Make a field required and hidden
  • Make a field required or optional
  • Hide or show a field
  • Hide or show DFFs and EFFs
  • Hide or show UI elements (action button, message…)
  • Configure Guided Journeys
  • …… and a lot more

​***If you are starting new with HCM extensions using VB Studio then here the recommended learning path

Good luck with your implementation!