An overview of web interactions, HTTP requests and responses, and what happens from the client and server-side perspectives

A discussion of how to create applications and modules in OutSystems, including the principles of modular programming, and how to expose and reference elements

Create the application and modules for your web app and a slightly more interesting Hello World type of screen.

Introduce entities and static entities as well as their attributes and available actions

Introduce input, output, and local variables as well as the possible data types of those variables including lists and structures

Create the required entities and bootstrap them with initial data and then create the required static entities and their records

Introduces the basics of screen development including creating a screen, how to fetch data in the preparation, and the overall screen lifecycle

An overview of how to use aggregates to retrieve data including how to filter and sort the data

Describe the basic types of widgets available to display information including multi-record form, and input widgets

Create List and Detail screens for the main entities and add the list screens to the top menu

Describe how to model, create, define, and view data relationships in OutSystems

Use entity identifiers to create 1-to-Many and Many-to-Many relationships, add a unique index to an entity, and create an entity diagram to visualize the data model and relationships

Learn how to use the Link and Navigation widgets to provide screen interactions and control the screen lifecycle

Make screens interactive by adding buttons that create and update records of movies and people and then adding search capabilities for movies

Aggregates have several properties and settings that can can be used to create more advanced queries with the Aggregate Editor

An introduction to the SQL Tool and how to use it to create and test SQL statements

Describe how to use the Container, If, Radio Button, and Check Box widgets and explain the various ways to configure and use the Combo Box widget which provide a drop-down selector

Using advanced data queries, fetch movie participant info to display in a section of the MovieDetail screen and allow for search in the Movies List

Describe the different types of actions, how to define their action flows using various types of nodes, and how to raise and handle exceptions that may occur in those flows.

Create a reusable server action, configure it to be able to be used as a function, and then add Exception Handling for Database Exceptions

Describe the input validation framework provided in OutSystems, from the built-in validations to the custom business validations and how to provide feedback to the user

Learn how to start debugging your module and control the execution flow while inspecting the value of key variables and then find and views the logs to monitor what is happening

Learn how to configure validations for form submissions, implement custom server-side validations, and then test and view the feedback that will be provided to the users

Learn how to configure submission to be made in an AJAX fashion and use Ajax specific nodes to handle the request appropriately

Create an area to allow users to submit and view their comments which submits and refreshes all the comments using AJAX.

Introduce web blocks, how to create them, how to use them, and how to define and trigger events to allow the web block to communicate with its parent

Create a reusable web block to allow for displaying or editing the number of stars the user gives the movie as a rating and create events and handler to allow the screen to react to changes

Review security in OutSystems and show how access to resources can be controlled by granting users or groups permissions to new or existing Roles

Implement role-base access control by creating an application specific role, granting new users that role, and limiting access to parts of the app to that role

Explain how to create and use Session variable to store state between user requests and how to use Site Properties to store application specific variables across users and sessions

Create Session Variables to help remember the filters that were entered when searching for movies and then create a Site Property to set the max rating for a movie

Introduce the types of Web Services available in OutSystems and explain how to consume, expose, configure, and monitor both SOAP web services and REST APIs

Consume a REST API method that returns the path to an image of a movie's poster and then configure the response to gracefully handle an expected error from the API

Control the look and feel of your app by defining the layouts and styles being applied to various elements and understanding the order in which styles are applied

Update the look and feel of the app by importing images to use in the styles of themes and creating new style classes to apply to the widgets in the app

Introduce OutSystems UI and review the UI patterns that it provides and also cover the List Navigation and List Sort widgets that are available in the RichWidgets

Add dynamic sorting and pagination to the Movies screen and then add Balloon and User Initials patterns to the app

Explore the Screen Templates and how to use the Replace data capability to customize the templates to your specific needs and then review the scaffolding of List and Detail screens

A wrap-up of the course along with a review of the corresponding certification exam and other courses that are available