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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By : Aniruddha Loya
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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

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By: Aniruddha Loya

Overview of this book

Amazon Honeycode enables you to build fully managed, customizable, and scalable mobile and web applications for personal or professional use with little to no code. With this practical guide to Amazon Honeycode, you’ll be able to bring your app ideas to life, improving your and your team’s/organization’s productivity. You’ll begin by creating your very first app from the get-go and use it as a means to explore the Honeycode development environment and concepts. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and organize the data to build and bind an app on Honeycode as well as deconstruct different templates to understand the common structures and patterns that can be used. Finally, you’ll build a few apps from scratch and discover how to apply the concepts you’ve learned. By the end of this app development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to build and deploy your own mobile and web applications. You’ll also be able to invite and share your app with people you want to collaborate with.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Honeycode
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Part 2: Deep-Dive into Honeycode Templates
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Part 3: Let's Build Some Apps

Chapter 5 – Powering the Honeycode Apps with Automations

Exercise 1

This exercise can be completed by following these steps:

  1. In the Tasks table, add a new column and rename it Created by. Set the column format to Contact.
  2. In the Add new tasks screen, edit the automation on the Done button by adding another section in the first block of automation. Set Take data from as =$[SYS_USER] and select the Created by column in the and write to field (see Figure 5.1):

Figure 5.1 – Editing the Done automation to capture the information of the user that created the task

  1. A sample task created after this will have the Created by field populated as shown in Figure 5.2.

    Note

    For existing tasks, the column will have to be manually updated.

Figure 5.2 – The Tasks table with the Created by field updated

Exercise 2

The exercise can be completed by following these steps:

  1. Create a new...

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