9.2 Understanding Component View Common UI Elements

The section describes common Component View UI elements.

• Component View Toolbar

• Navigation Bar

Tip:

Developer Navigation tools display in the header region on many Oracle Application Express pages. See "Developer Navigation Tools."

See Also:

"Viewing a Page in Component View" and "Editing a Page in Component View"

9.2.1 Component View Toolbar

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The Component View toolbar displays at the top of the page. When you pass your cursor over an active button and menu, a tooltip displays as shown in the previous illustration. The Page Designer toolbar features the following buttons and menu options:

• Developer Comment, Bug, or To Do. Displays the Create a Developer comment, Bug or To Do dialog. See "Adding Developer Comments," "Managing Bugs," and "Tracking To Dos."

• Find Icon. The Find icon resembles a flashlight. Click the Find icon to search for items, pages, queries, tables, PL/SQL code, or images, view debug reports, view session state, and view errors. See "Using the Find Icon."

• Shared Components. Links to the Shared Components page. Shared components can display or be applied on any page within an application. See "Managing Shared Components."

• Edit Page. Displays the current page.

• Run Page. Runs the current page. See "Running an Application or Page in Component View."

9.2.2 Navigation Bar

A navigation bar displays at the top of the page beneath the breadcrumb menu. Use this bar to navigate between pages within an application.

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• Page Finder. Use the Page Finder to navigate between pages. To navigate to page, enter a page number in the Page Finder and click Go.

• Previous Page - Click Previous Page (<) to view the previous application page.

• Next Page - Click Next Page (>) to view the next application page.

• Create:

  • Page. See "About Adding Pages to a Database Application."

  • Page as Copy. See "Copying a Database Application Page in Component View."

  • Region. See "Creating a Region in Component View."

  • Page Component. See "Creating a Page Control Component View."

  • Page Group. See "Creating a Page Group."

  • Shared Components. See "Managing Shared Components."

  • Developer Comment. See "Adding Developer Comments."

  • Team Development. Displays the submenus Feature, To Do, and Bug. See "Tracking Features," "Tracking To Dos," and "Managing Bugs."

• Utilities:

  • Delete Page. See "Deleting Pages in Component View."

  • Advisor. See"Running Advisor to Check Application Integrity."

  • Resequence Components.

  • Clean up. Re-sequences the items on the page in increments of 10.

  • Lock. See "Locking and Unlocking a Page."

  • Page Events. Details all currently defined page controls and processes in the order in which the Application Express engine renders the page, invokes logic, and runs processes.

  • Caching. See "Utilizing Region Caching in Page Designer" and "Utilizing Region Caching in Component View."

  • Attribute Dictionary. See "Using the Attribute Dictionary."

  • History. Displays a report of changes to the current page.

  • Export. See "Exporting an Application and Application Components."

  • Cross Page Utilities. See "Utilizing Cross Page Utilities."

  • Application Utilities. See "Using Application Builder Utilities."

  • Page Groups. See "Viewing Page Groups."

  • Upgrade Application. See "Running Upgrade Application."

• Page Designer - Click Page Designer to view the page in Page Designer. See "Managing Pages in Page Designer."