Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 13-5.
Application report
Page Groups
Page groups are similar to application groups except that they group pages together. They're application specific,
which means a page group is only valid for a particular application. Page groups are very useful to help group
common pages in an application.
An alternate approach to using page groups is to use a numbering scheme to group pages together. The page
number approach may not always work, because you may run out of numbers. For example, imagine that you group
logical pages in sets of 10. What happens when you have 11 pages in a group? Of course, a workaround is to create
large intervals for each logical page group, but even so you may run into a situation where a page doesn't conform to
your numbering standards.
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You can also use page groups for purposes other than in the development environment. suppose you grouped
all the admin pages into an Admin page group. If you had a Global Page region that you wanted to appear only on admin
pages, you could add a condition to check that the current page was associated to the Admin page group.
Note
To create and manage page groups, go to Utilities
➤
Cross Page Utilities
➤
Page Groups. On the Page Groups page,
you can create and assign page groups in a way similar to how you created application groups in the previous section.
APEX Views and the APEX Dictionary
In traditional web development tools, if you need to search through all your code, you must comb through multiple text
files. APEX is different because it stores code in the database. Thus you can run queries to search through your code.
