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Oracle Application Express 3.2 - The Essentials and More

You're reading from   Oracle Application Express 3.2 - The Essentials and More Develop Native Oracle database-centric web applications quickly and easily with Oracle APEX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847194527
Length 644 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle Application Express 3.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. An Introduction to APEX FREE CHAPTER 2. What we need to know to effectively use APEX 3. APEX Basic Concepts 4. The Application Builder Basic Concepts and Building Blocks 5. APEX Items 6. APEX Buttons 7. APEX Computations 8. APEX Validations 9. APEX Processes 10. APEX Branches 11. APEX SQL Workshop 12. APEX Forms 13. APEX Reports 14. Tabular Forms 15. Calendars 16. Interactive Reports 17. AJAX with APEX 18. Globalization and Localization With APEX Applications 19. Right-To-Left Support in APEX 20. Deploying APEX Applications 21. The APEX Runtime Environment 22. Security 23. Application Conversion 24. APEX Best Practices APEX Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration Tips

Naming conventions and rules


Every APEX item, on the application or page level, must have a unique name within the APEX developed application. Some of the naming convention rules that we'll review in this chapter, such as using prefixes that include the application ID or the page ID, help us to achieve this uniqueness. We also need to use meaningful names that will help us to locate and understand the origin and type of APEX items easily.

When dealing with the names of APEX items, we face some ambiguity regarding possible length and case sensitivity. The Application Builder allows item names to include up to 255 characters. However, this length doesn't adhere to the Oracle SQL and PL/SQL identifier's naming rules. This can create a problem if we want to use the APEX items in SQL or PL/SQL code, and for the most part we do. Hence, it's a good practice to use the Oracle identifiers rules when we name our APEX items.

Oracle Identifiers naming rules

The following are the relevant rules we should...

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