Betty Blocks
Betty Blocks is a stand-alone application development platform intended to empower the collaboration of non-IT, business centric staff with professional software developers to build applications of various scale and complexity.
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Is Betty Blocks right for me?
The following table outlines what types of features and development work are feasible using Betty Blocks along with an estimate of their relative complexity, expertise needed, and development time. As presented below, Betty Blocks is ideal for developing applications of low-medium complexity.
Expertise: These features would require some IT/tech-savvy experience in data collection/modeling, permissions, data and process flow, and form and field manipulation.
Time: These features would require one to several hours per feature.
- Gather form data
- Store form data
- Secure/NetID login
- Display public data without a required login
- Collect qualitative and quantitative data
- Upload images
- Upload documents
- Customize help text in-form
- Customize form text
- Conditionally make fields required/perform validation based on prior criteria
Expertise: These features would require IT experience needed in data modeling, bridging data, API specifications and set-up, SSO/permissions, condition logic.
Time: These features would require multiple hours to days per feature.
- Import/use live campus data via API
- Export form data to another campus database via API
- Automatic email notifications based on triggers
- Create data models and own data
- Auto-fill text into fields based on certain conditions
- Designate different user types/roles with different permissions
- Filter dropdown lists based on other fields
- Display data in tabular manner and export via csv
- Conditionally show/hide fields based on selections made prior
- Generate pdfs from data captured
- Multi-part (page/tabs/steps) forms
Expertise: These features would require IT Developer-level of expertise.
Time: These features would require a week for set-up and testing per feature.
- Static approval workflows
- Video and help pdfs embedded
- Embed application pages on a UW WordPress website
Expertise: These features would require a Service Team IT developer.
Time: These features would require week(s) for set-up and testing per feature or data source.
- Connectivity to Salesforce
- Connectivity to Tableau
- Connectivity to other data sources (especially non-API)
- Dynamic approval workflows
These features are not possible to create within a Betty Blocks application at this time:
- Custom CSS (stylesheets) inserted directly
- Visualize data in graphs, charts, etc.
- Export data into designed reports
- Allow a single user to have multiple roles
Platform enhancements
Submitted requests
A list of enhancement requests that have been submitted by Low Code Solutions to Betty Blocks and are not yet completed.
Completed requests
A list of enhancement requests submitted by Low Code Solutions that have been completed by Betty Blocks.
If you are an existing Betty Blocks user or have more questions about the platform, please fill out the LCS support form and a team member will respond to your request.