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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Topic Overview
• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Changes in This Release

• Changes in Oracle Application Express Release 4.2

1 Introducing Oracle Application Express

• 1.1 About Oracle Application Express
• 1.2 Understanding Oracle Application Express Architecture
• 1.3 About the Oracle Application Express Environment
  • 1.3.1 About Workspaces
• 1.4 About Oracle Application Express User Roles
• 1.5 Overview of the Application You Build

2 Accessing Your Development Environment

• 2.1 Before You Begin
• 2.2 Accessing the Hosted Demo Environment
  • 2.2.1 Logging In To the Hosted Demo Environment
• 2.3 Setting Up Your Own Local Environment
  • 2.3.1 Logging In To Administration Services
  • 2.3.2 Creating a Workspace
  • 2.3.3 Logging In To Your Local Instance
• 2.4 Creating Additional User Accounts

3 Getting Started with Oracle Application Express

• 3.1 About the Workspace Home Page
• 3.2 What Is Application Builder?
• 3.3 Installing the Sample Objects
  • 3.3.1 Downloading OEHR Sample Objects
  • 3.3.2 Importing the OEHR Sample Objects
  • 3.3.3 Viewing Your Database Objects

4 Building Your Application

• 4.1 About the Application You Build in This Tutorial
• 4.2 Creating the Initial Application
  • 4.2.1 Previewing Your Application
• 4.3 Modifying the Departments Report
  • 4.3.1 Run the Report to View Added Columns
• 4.4 Using an Interactive Report
  • 4.4.1 Save Report Settings as the Default
  • 4.4.2 Create a Filter
  • 4.4.3 Change the Sort Order
  • 4.4.4 Add a Controlled Break
  • 4.4.5 Display the Single Row View
  • 4.4.6 Reset Report Settings
• 4.5 Adding an Employees Report and Form
  • 4.5.1 Previewing the Pages
• 4.6 Editing the Employees Report
  • 4.6.1 Create a Function
  • 4.6.2 Add a Column
  • 4.6.3 Previewing the Page
  • 4.6.4 Changing the Column Format
• 4.7 Adding a Link on the Home Page to the Employees Report
• 4.8 Adding a Department Column to the Employees Report
  • 4.8.1 Add a Column
  • 4.8.2 Display the Department Name Column in the Report
  • 4.8.3 Save Report Settings as the Default
• 4.9 Linking a Column Value to Another Page
  • 4.9.1 Change Column Value to a Link
  • 4.9.2 Run the Departments Report
  • 4.9.3 Create a Highlight to Test Clear Interactive Report Command
• 4.10 Adding a List of Values to the Employees Report
  • 4.10.1 Add a List of Values
  • 4.10.2 Add an Item to Display List of Values
  • 4.10.3 Change Employees Report Query
  • 4.10.4 Change Column Link on Department Report
  • 4.10.5 Turning Off Pagination
• 4.11 Adding Your Company Name
• 4.12 Switching Themes to Change the User Interface

5 About Deploying Your Application

• 5.1 Overview of Deploying Your Application
• 5.2 Creating Users
• 5.3 About Publishing the Application URL

6 About Globalization

• 6.1 About Language Identification and Rendering
• 6.2 Specifying the Method for Global Identification

7 Next Steps

• 7.1 Additional Resources

Index