Planning Objects in Codeless ONE
When building an application, planning your objects is crucial to its success. Objects represent your application’s different data structures, essential to creating a robust and efficient system.
The first step to planning your objects is to determine the purpose of your application.
• What are the main goals you want to achieve?
• What data do you need to collect to support those goals?
• Once you clearly understand your application’s purpose, you can begin to identify the objects and properties you need.
Here are some essential tips to help you plan your objects in CodelessONE:
1. Define Your App Requirements
Before creating any objects, take the time to evaluate your application requirements. List all the features and functions your app needs to perform. This list will help you identify the objects and properties required for your application.
2. Determine Your Objects
Once you have defined your application requirements, determine the objects you must create. Each object represents a table of data that stores a particular type of information. For example, if you’re creating a project management application, you might create objects for projects, tasks, and resources.
3. Identify the Object properties
After determining the objects, identify the properties that each object requires. For example, the project object might require properties such as project name, start date, and end date.
4. Consider Object Relations
When planning your objects, consider object relations. Object relation helps to avoid data duplication by allowing you to link data from different objects. For instance, instead of adding the project name property in the task object, you can create a one-to-many relation between the objects project and task and add the project name as a reference property instead of duplicating it.
5. Finalize Your Object Plan
Once you have identified your objects and their properties, create a final object plan. A clear and detailed object plan helps to organize and streamline your application development process.
Below are a few examples of different Objects that could be used in different Applications.
To provide a clearer perspective, let’s consider some applications and potential object structures.
E-commerce Application: Objects could include ‘Products’, ‘Customers’, ‘Orders’, ‘Reviews’, etc.
Education Platform: Objects might encompass ‘Courses’, ‘Students’, ‘Instructors’, ‘Assignments’, and so on.
Remember, the key to a successful application is not just about creating objects, but doing so with foresight, strategy, and a clear understanding of the end goal.