The theme of this in-house study session is “Low-code development experience using Outsystems.”
I am “TT” from Unit 2.
Outsystems has been featured frequently on engineer blogs, but we held a study session for those with no experience to try it out and deepen their understanding.
Additionally, this time we had members who had experience developing with Outsystems participating, and we could see their high level of interest.
The flow of this study session is as follows.
① Basic learning by watching videos
② Obtain a development account
③ High-speed development experience using scaffolding function
①Basic learning by watching videos
First, to look back on what I’ve learned so far, I watched learning videos provided by Outsystems official website.
The learning videos above are part of a training course, and review questions are provided at the end of each section to help you check your understanding.
② Obtain a development account
After that, we created an account for each participant in order to actually proceed with the development at hand.
By creating an account, a workspace is created in the cloud area, so individual development is possible by installing the development tool ServiceStudio.
③ High-speed development experience using scaffolding function
After setting up the environment, we demonstrated the development.
Here, we had students experience development using the scaffolding function of Outsysmtes.
This function is an Outsystems development assistance function that automatically creates templated list/detail screens based on entity (table) definitions that have been created in advance.
The existence of this feature allows Outsystems to create general master/detail screens much faster than with scratch development.
One member of the team who has actually done scratch development for web applications said, “It was more than I imagined that something that would have taken two to three days to do by hand could be done with such simple operations”.
In conclusion
This study session was mainly aimed at members who had no experience developing with Outsystems, so the learning content was mainly basic.
In the future, we will gradually step up the learning content, including screen development with Outsystems without using the scaffolding function,“batch data import/output function” and “utilization of the open source library “Forge”. We plan to continue learning about practical content.
Please look forward to the next study session article.