At its core, a Sandbox is a secluded space within the Quixy platform which is called the development stage where users can unleash their creativity without the fear of disrupting existing workflows or applications. It serves as a virtual playground, enabling citizen developers to build, modify, and test new applications or features without any impact on the live environment. This isolation ensures that citizen developers, business analysts, and other stakeholders can collaborate and iterate freely, fostering a culture of innovation.
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Sandbox revolutionizes software development by streamlining the traditional process with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), typically involving coding, building, testing, and deploying. Instead, Sandbox simplifies this process for no-code development.
Featuring a Multi-Stage Sandbox, Quixy replicates development environments such as Dev, QA, UAT, and Live for controlled testing and release. With one-click deployment, changes made in the development stage can seamlessly propagate to the Live app, eliminating the need for manual updates. This real-time update mechanism ensures that changes made in the development environment instantly impact end-users.
In essence, Sandbox serves as a no-code CI/CD solution, offering faster updates, improved collaboration, and higher-quality applications, all without the complexity of traditional coding practices.
In Quixy, Sandbox comes in two variants as given below, and although the functionality of both variants is the same, there is a slight difference in the way they work.
Sandbox has made managing data a lot better. Now, we've got a more private and secure way to handle the data with help of Data Admin.
When adjusting account preferences, three specific preferences necessitate either configuring the environment or deploying to the live environment.
Citizen Developers can effortlessly keep users informed about changes in the latest versions of applications, views, and reports. With release notes, you can provide a quick overview of what's new within 72 hours of deployment to the live stage, ensuring users are always up to date.
Release notes are automatically shared with all users who have access to the updated applications, views, or reports. This ensures everyone stays in the loop about the latest updates and improvements.
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Keep your artifact updates clear and concise to ensure users easily understand the changes made. A straightforward explanation goes a long way in improving their experience!