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the entire workspace. However, if you're in the Application Builder or the Administra-
tion section, the search is limited contextually to those specific areas.
Beneath the main menu bar is the breadcrumb region. This not only gives you a
visual clue of where you are in the hierarchy of the workspace, but each breadcrumb is
also a quick link that takes you back to that specific spot in the hierarchy. You'll create
breadcrumbs in your own application that perform a very similar job. You don't see
breadcrumb entries when you're on the Home page.
Last, to the far right of the breadcrumbs, is the Help link, which appears as a styl-
ized question mark. This pops open a new window that displays the documentation
web site containing searchable help for APEX. If, for some reason, you don't have ac-
cess to external web sites, you may want to download the PDF versions of the docu-
mentation to have on hand.
The rest of the page is dedicated to either giving you a quick link to the four main
sections or providing you with information about what's going on in the workspace.
The News region, shown in Figure 2-8 , allows the developers in a workspace to enter
information they want others in the workspace to see. If more than one news item is
active, this region scrolls through the news items, wrapping back around to the first
item when it reaches the end of the list.
Figure 2-8. Home page News scroller
The two regions at the bottom of the Home page show an overview of the activity in
the workspace. The regions, from left to right, show the Top Applications and the Top
Users in the workspace. In a new workspace, there probably won't be anything in these
regions, but as you work your way through the topic, you'll see that start to change.
Notice that most of the main pages for each section of the development environment
adhere to this dashboard-style home page interface, the notable exception being the
Application Builder. Let's look at that section first.
Application Builder
The Application Builder is the core of the APEX application development environ-
ment. Whereas you'll use the SQL Workshop to manipulate the underlying database
objects, you'll use the Application Builder to do most of the real work when it comes
to coding, testing, and debugging your applications.
 
 
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