UI Interface Defaults Utility
The UI Interface Defaults Utility in APEX Project Eye provides a powerful solution for maintaining consistency in your Oracle APEX applications. This specialized tool helps development teams standardize item labels and format masks across applications, ensuring a cohesive user experience while streamlining development and reducing errors associated with inconsistent attribute definitions.
Key Benefits
Section titled “Key Benefits”- Attribute Consistency: Ensure consistent labels, formats, and behaviors across your applications
- Development Acceleration: Speed up development by applying predefined attribute defaults
- User Experience Enhancement: Create a more professional and cohesive application interface
- Standards Enforcement: Implement and maintain organizational UI standards effectively
How It Works
Section titled “How It Works”The UI Interface Defaults Utility provides a comprehensive view of attribute usage across your applications:
- Attribute Analysis: Scan your APEX applications for attribute usage patterns
- Consistency Checking: Identify inconsistencies in how attributes are defined
- UI Default Creation: Seamlessly create APEX User Interface Defaults from the utility
The utility provides a comprehensive view of attribute usage across applications
Attribute Analysis
Section titled “Attribute Analysis”Gain insights into how attributes are used throughout your applications:
- Usage Patterns: See how frequently specific attribute names are used
- Property Variations: Identify different property values assigned to the same attribute
- Application Distribution: Understand which applications use specific attributes
- Page Context: View the context in which attributes are used
UI Defaults Creation
Section titled “UI Defaults Creation”Streamline the creation and management of APEX UI Defaults:
- One-Click Creation: Create UI defaults directly from the attribute analysis
- Bulk Operations: Apply defaults to multiple attributes simultaneously
- Default Previewing: See how defaults will be applied before committing changes
- Schema Integration: Link defaults to appropriate database schemas
Related APE Features
Section titled “Related APE Features”- Quality Assurance: Define and enforce UI standards as part of quality rules
- Documentation Generation: Document UI standards and attribute definitions
- Scorecard: Include UI consistency metrics in application evaluation
- LOB2Script Utility: Another utility feature to help with application deployment