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Figure 5-24.
Results after adding the static HTML region
Public Pages
As mentioned, it's possible to allow the entire application to use no authentication scheme. But what if you want some
of the pages to require authentication, and the rest to be public? How can you make a page that doesn't require a login
in order to view it?
If any of the pages in an application require authentication, an appropriate authentication scheme must be
applied to the whole application. APEX lets you define individual pages as Public or Requires Authentication using
a defining property of the page. Each page can have different security requirements (authorization), but only one
authentication mechanism can be applied to an application. Public pages are useful for introductory 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
.
