Zone - Main

Select Admin Menu > Zone to maintain a zone.

CAUTION:

Do not remove or modify zones provided with the base package, as this may produce indeterminate results and may cause system instability.

Description of Page

Specify an easily recognizable Zone identifier and Description.

CAUTION:

Important! When introducing a new zone, carefully consider its naming convention. Refer to System Data Naming Convention for more information.

Owner indicates if this zone is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification). The system sets the owner to Customer Modification when you add a zone. This information is display-only.

Zone Type identifies the zone type that defines how the zone functions. The zone type's Long Description is displayed below.

Application Service is the application service that is used to provide security for the zone. Refer to Granting Access To Zones for more information.

The Width defines if the zone occupies the Full width of the portal or only Half.

Note: Zones on the dashboard portal are always the width of the dashboard.

If the zone type supports help text, you can use Zone Help Text to describe the zone to the end-users. For example, all Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence zone types can display help text when the zone's help button is clicked. However help text cannot be displayed on Dashboard zones. Please refer to the section on zone help text for more information on how you can use HTML and cascading style sheets to format the help text.

Use Override Zone Help Text to override the existing embedded help text for this zone.

Note: Viewing Your Text. You can press the Test button to see how the help text will look when it's displayed in the zone.

The grid contains the zone's parameter values. The Zone Type controls the list of parameters. The grid contains the following fields:

Description describes the parameter. This is display-only. Note that if there is a detailed description on the zone type parameter, a question mark icon appears next to the parameter's description. Click the icon to see details related to the parameter, including tips on how to populate the parameter value.
Parameter Value is the value for the parameter.
Use Override Parameter Value to override the existing value for this parameter. This field is enabled when the related zone type parameter value is Zone - Override Allowed, and the zone is owned by the base product.
Owner indicates if this parameter is owned by the base package or by your implementation (Customer Modification). This information is display-only.

Fastpath: Business Intelligence zones. If this is a zone from Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence, you can read about the various parameters and how they are used in the Configuring BI Zones chapter in that product's Administration Guide.

Where Used

Follow this link to open the data dictionary where you can view the tables that reference CI_ZONE.