Scalable Master Layouts
Master
Templates
Master templates allow for the speedy development of powerful single-scope applications while keeping maintenance efforts centralized and transparent. This quintessential feature of the Betty Blocks platform enables organizations, vendors, and platforms to rapidly deploy custom versions while ensuring consistency, security, and efficiency across the board.
Core Standardization
Working with Betty Blocks master templates
The goal of master templates is for organizations to balance out their need for customization while maintaining the strength of their core product offerings. Development teams are encouraged to utilize the master templates to create bespoke solutions rapidly while retaining the ability to add custom features such as branding, integrations, workflows, or other capabilities. By standardizing application design and logic to one single source, maintenance efforts are entirely centralized.
Core Architecture
Maintain consistency across all solutions
Many development teams will find their backlogs clogged with repetitive maintenance tasks, especially when an organization relies on a multitude of solutions to work together. Software co-dependencies can easily be omitted by creating a master template that houses standardized core functionalities, databases, and integrations while allowing for customization per application. This stress-free way of building and managing applications reflects the inherent benefits of rapid application development associated with a low-code platform. Master templates provide additional support and flexibility across a development team’s disciplines.
Tools for Developers
Master templates for developers
Within the Betty Blocks platform, developers can find a myriad of different templates to lay the brickwork for a single-use application. Master templates, on the other hand, provide a high-level container to orchestrate the features and capabilities of subsequent child applications. When maintenance is required, all developers need to do is jump into the master template and make the necessary changes before deploying them to all linked assets. This allows for speedy, hassle-free, and cost-effective application maintenance across the board.
Core Architecture
Manage components for all custom applications
When creating child applications, developers instantly duplicate the master template's foundation—including front-end components, application logic, and back-office functionalities. From there, you can easily integrate custom data connectors and configure distinct user permissions to align with organizational security policies. By eliminating foundational boilerplate setup, developers spend less time on repetitive tasks and more on bespoke customization.
Tools for Managers
Master templates for admins
Low-code platforms need to allow IT managers to maintain a keen overview of the security statuses of the solutions within their organization’s tech stack in order to prevent shadow IT. For organizations operating in regulated industries, adhering to security policies is paramount. With the addition of master templates to the Betty Blocks platform, admins have the necessary tooling to equip applications with governance features such as role-based permissions, access controls, and sign-in options to eliminate security concerns. Moreover, admins will receive notifications regarding edits made to the master template and its assigned child applications.
Security
Comprehensive user and security management
With master templates, both security and compliance are cemented into any application from the get-go. By implementing pre-defining the required security within the master template, any child applications will bear the same configurations. This is especially helpful when citizen developers wish to create an application that is compliant with industry standards. Access controls such as SSO and 2FA can also be standardized so that they apply to all subsequent applications made from the master template, significantly reducing the risk of data breaches or unauthorized access.
Marketplace
Master template marketplace
For software vendors and technology partners, master templates unlock new opportunities for diversifying their product offerings. A standardized master template allows you to create an instant duplicate application equipped with the required functionalities, which can be customized to fit your client’s branding. Common app use cases such as portals, forms, provisioning tools, and document management systems can thus be delivered to the client in a matter of days instead of weeks. Alternatively, vendors can display their own templates in a marketplace that customers can leverage to build bespoke web applications that integrate seamlessly with platform specifications.
Frequently Asked Questions
Betty Blocks master templates FAQ
What is the difference between templates and master templates?
Within the Betty Blocks platform, users will find templates and master templates. Templates provide default pre-built layouts, components, and application logic for a single application. In contrast, master templates provide a standardized foundation from which many different custom versions can be created and centrally maintained.
Are master templates included in the license fee?
Yes, master templates are an integral feature of the Betty Blocks platform suite.
How do I know that my master templates are secure?
Betty Blocks maintains industry-standard security measures through our SOC2 attestation and ISO 27001 certification to ensure paramount data protection. On an organizational level, user admins can configure permission settings to ensure strict governance of each master template, as well as receive updates when changes have been made.
What if a master template is deleted accidentally?
If child applications are connected to a master template, it acts as a fail-safe so that the master template cannot be deleted.
Can Betty Blocks create a master template for me?
Of course, our professional services department can set up a master template any way you like.