3.5. Summary

You learned a lot more about the capabilities of your APEX environment in this chapter, including:

  • How to format fields in APEX pages, both from the attribute page and directly from the runtime environment

  • How to add default values for fields

  • Using lists of values to limit user data entry, and how these LOVs can be presented to the user in different ways

  • A brief introduction to shared components

  • Using Query Builder to create SQL syntax

  • Modifying a report to combine data from two different tables

You also became more familiar with the overall use of the APEX environment. You will be exploring more of the options available to you with APEX in the next chapter to extend your application even further, including providing validation, adding calculations to reports, and understanding and changing the way that users can navigate throughout your application.

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