CHAPTER 4

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Navigation

Web application users need to easily navigate through the application’s pages. You have already encountered three navigational features in your use of APEX: links, breadcrumbs, and the navigation menu. This chapter examines these features in detail, and shows you different ways to use them in your applications.

Lists

In common parlance, a list is simply a collection of things. In APEX, however, a list is a collection of links. A list is a useful navigation tool, for the obvious reason that clicking a link takes you to a new page.

For a good example of an APEX list, consider again the SQL Workshop home screen from Chapter ...

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