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September 19, 2022

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Excel Interfaces for REST Services
Learn about Visual Builder add-in for Excel and how it can help you interact with REST based backend from the familiar excel interfaces.

00:53 - Intro
02:05 - Excel Add-in main page
02:25 - Overview
03:35 - Download installer
04:40 - Install
05:15 - Update
06:00 - Remove add-in
07:05 - Connect to a Visual Builder Business Object
09:10 - Modify Excel table columns
09:55 - Admin columns
10:20 - Add query criteria
11:45 - Publish spreadsheet for users
12:20 - Open the published spreadsheet
12:50 - Insert / Update / Delete Data
14:55 - Upload changes
15:55 - Error handling
17:10 - The reason the email couldn't be set to Null is the field property "Omit from payload if value is empty" was on
18:00 - Form over table (Parent child) layout
18:15 - Add a new catalog
19:50 - Enable child relationship
20:05 - Refresh catalog after change
21:05 - 'Contains' query criteria
21:10 - Add an LOV
24:10 - Enforce business rules on the backend
27:10 - Use ORDS for the backend
28:10 - Open API specification
29:00 - Change authentication method
30:40 - Alter column type
31:50 - Re-download the data to remove pending changes
32:50 - Authentication methods overview
33:25 - End of demo - Recap
34:00 - Additional resources
34:35 - Join us at Cloud World

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