Chapter 5. APEX Items
Items are the basic building blocks of our application pages. APEX supports two levels of items: application items and page items. In the following chapter, we'll review both, and learn how they can serve us in our applications.
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...
