Databases Reference
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Although you've created the page, unbeknownst to you, the wizard has made an inaccurate and inappropriate
choice for the page template. Instead of using the default for the theme you're using, it has chosen a template
specifically. You need to change it so that the page uses the default template for the theme:
7.
Edit
Page 600
.
8.
Edit the page attributes by double-clicking
Page Name
at the root of the
Page Rendering
tree.
9.
In the
Display Attributes
section, set
Page Template
to
Use Theme Default
.
10.
Click
Apply Changes
.
Now that you have a Users page, you need to make a modification to the navigation tabs. APEX supports one- and
two-level tab navigation as part of the Shared Components. When the application was created, the option chosen was
one-level tab navigation.
However, the design you want has two levels of tabbed navigation. The first level will show links on the right side,
above the current tab bar. These will be the parent tabs and will break the system into two functional sections: Admin
and Issue Tracker.
The second level will provide navigation in each of the functional sections. By breaking the application into
separate sections, later you can easily dictate who can view and use which section. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
To implement two-level tab navigation, you need to modify the default page template for the application and
then modify the tab navigation structure.
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tab maintenance in apeX can be confusing. the easiest change is to go from some level of tabs to no tabs, or
from no tabs to one or two levels. this exercise walks through the steps involved with converting the existing one-level
tab to a two-level tab configuration to demonstrate a complex configuration change.
Note
Here's the process to follow to implement two levels of tabbed navigation. First you need to alter the default page
template that your application uses. If you don't do this, then even if you implement parent and standard tabs, the
template won't be set up to show them:
1.
Navigate to the
Shared Components
area of your application.
2.
In the
User Interface
section, click
Themes
.
3.
Change the report to
List View
by clicking the corresponding display icon, as shown in
Figure
9-2
.
Figure 9-2.
Selecting List View for the theme report
