Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
what
attribute 01
actually is. One of the parameters is the users' email address. This is automatically
filled with the email address of the user—but only if you use the APEX authentication. If you use another
type of authentication, you should place your own function here to extract the email address from the
username. Or, if you use public pages with no authentication at all, you should add an email address
item on your feedback page.
Exporting Feedback to Development
If you develop your applications in the same workspace as your users are using, there is no need to
export and import the feedback. But that's a very unusual case. Mostly you develop on a development
instance and your users are testing in a test environment—perhaps even more than one—and running
production in another environment.
Exporting feedback starts from the Application Builder main page. When you press the Export
button there you get a list of objects you can export. Just click the last one, called “Team Development
Feedback” (see Figure 4-23), or click on the Feedback tab on the far right.
Figure 4-23.
Export Feedback to Development
All feedback entered after the date you enter in the “Changes Since” field will be exported. Usually
you'll set that to the date you last exported the feedback. Leave it empty for all feedback.
Note
You only can export feedback for the whole workspace, which is to say, for all applications that are
contained within the workspace.
One other setting is called the
Deployment System
. This setting is used to distinguish feedback from
one workspace and another. That's especially important if you have deployed your application in more
than one workspace, like test and production, or in production at multiple customer sites. This way you
can see where feedback originates from and where the responses on the feedback should be sent to. In
order to make this distinction, you have to be sure that this value is different for each implementation.
You can set this value in the APEX Administration utility, via Edit Workspace Information, as shown in
Figure 4-24. There it is called the Feedback Synchronization Source Identifier and it's defaulted to the
Workspace Name.
