Database Reference
In-Depth Information
If any of the pages in an application require authentication, an appropriate authentic-
ation scheme must be applied to the whole application. APEX lets you define individu-
al pages as Public or Requires Authentication using a defining property of the page.
Each page can have different security requirements (authorization), but only one au-
thentication mechanism can be applied to an application. Public pages are useful for in-
troductory landing pages, login pages, and information pages.
In the Help Desk project, you want to have the main page available to all visitors.
To accomplish this, you can modify the first page of the application to allow it to be
seen by anyone without requiring authentication. Do that via the following steps:
1.
In the Help Desk application, navigate to and edit page 1.
2.
From the Page Edit view, edit the page attributes by double-clicking the
page name (
Home
). The page name appears as the root of the tree in the
Page Rendering
region, as shown in
Figure 5-25
.
Figure 5-25.
Editing the page attributes
3.
Scroll to the Security section, shown in
Figure 5-26
. In this section, change
Authentication
to
Page Is Public
.
