Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Other examples of pages that can be included in this application are as follows:
• User registration page for self-service applications: It can also have the
functionality to send a conirmation e-mail with a link in it, which leads
to an activation page.
• Application start page.
• Personal account settings page.
• Password forgotten page to reset an old password: An email with the new
password is sent to the user. The e-mail can also contain a link to a landing
page to change it immediately.
• Change the password page to let passwords expire after a given period
of time.
• Help pages for the application(s).
System application—optional
Besides a login application, we can also create a system application for the more
technically oriented system administrator or DBA. This application will offer control
and maintenance functionality for all other applications and/or the whole system.
Possible functionality includes:
• Controlling e-mail queues.
• Performance reports of the pages and applications: This is also possible in
APEX itself, but it could be useful to be able to access it in a convenient way
within the application.
• Reading the APEX Feedback.
• Dealing with user approval of a self-service application.
• Inspecting (error) logs.
• Setting system parameters such as mail host address, mail host port, colors,
and so on.
• Inspecting jobs.
• A structure for maintaining user and access roles: On this structure we can
build some functionality that can be incorporated into the authorization
scheme of the master application.
• Maintaining system parameters.
Depending on the situation, a part of this functionality can be part of the normal
application administrator tasks of the system as well.
