Draft and published pages
A draft page is not accessible to anyone, even super users who can edit the page. A draft page can use a page Id already in use by another published page but you won't be able to publish the page until the published pages already using that page Id are set to draft or have their page Id changed.
You can keep a page in draft status whilst it's under development, or you can temporarily disable a live page by changing its status to draft.
A published page is live and available to view – but subject to a user having access to at least one block on that page. Each block has its own access policy, so a user may see all blocks or just a subset of blocks.
Access to a page will often vary depending on the requested object Id. For example, if your person Id was 123 and an unrelated employee's person Id was 987 you would likely have access to the page payslips/123 but not payslips/987.
Viewing all pages
To view all available pages:
- Navigate to Applaud Administrator: Setup: Pages
- Browse through the listing of pages
Creating a page
To create a page, please follow these steps:
- Navigate to Applaud Administrator: Setup: Pages: Add
- Fill in the page information and save.
Tip: A page won't be visible until you've created at least one block with an access policy against it.
Updating a page
The easiest way to update a page is to navigate to that page and use the Edit page quick link. This will give you the option to edit the page, add a new block or edit an existing block.
You can also edit a page this way:
- Navigate to Applaud Administrator: Setup: Pages
- Find the page you wish to edit and select it
You cannot edit Applaud-seeded pages.
Deleting a page
A page cannot be deleted but it can be set back to Draft status. Update the page you no longer wish to use and change its status to Draft. Alternatively, you can remove the access policies on the page's blocks; this will have the same effect as making the page inaccessible.
Auto-generate pages from Registered Views
If you are using an earlier version of Applaud HCM, it will automatically create pages from Registered Views during patch install. For more details about this automatic upgrade, please see Upgrading from previous versions.
You may re-run the Create Pages from Registered Views concurrent program at any point after install. This will automatically create pages from any views in the Registered Views menu that have not already been created as pages.
A page in Oracle E-Business Suite
In Oracle E-Business Suite terms, each page is linked to an Application Menu (fnd_menu). Additional page properties are stored in an Applaud database table.
You can see a full listing of all pages in the xxas_pages_v database view.