“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
— Albert Einstein
In my haste to wrap things up last week, I neglected to actually create an application-specific System Property and then verify that the convenience link and menu item that we created actually worked as intended. I also neglected to post the Update Set containing all of the artifacts related to this adventure, so I have decided that a fourth installment in this series is warranted. To begin, let’s return to where we last off, which was to push the new Setup Properties button to produce all of the application components necessary to manage properties specific to the application. We can scroll down to the bottom of the page now and see the results:
The first thing that you will notice is that the Setup Properties button is now gone. Having completed its reason for living, it can now go away permanently, never to be seen or heard from again until we create our next scoped application. Our other UI Action, the link to the System Properties maintenance page, is not visible either, though. That’s just because we have yet to create our first System Property for this application. Let’s fix that by clicking on that New button under the System Properties tab. And just to show off our Reference type System Properties hack, let’s go ahead and make it a Reference property.
To create the new property, we give it a Name and a Description, select reference as the Type and then select the sys_user_group table as the Table. Once we have completed the form, we can now click on the Submit button, which will return us to the original Sample App definition page where we can see the effect of adding the first property to the application
Now our new UI Action appears, as there is at least one System Property to manage. Clicking on the link will take us to the page where all of the properties for this application can be valued.
Of course, we also put this same link on the left-hand side bar menu, so we can type Sample App in the navigation filter to bring that one up to verify as well.
That pretty much verifies that all of the parts and pieces are actually doing their respective jobs. Now all that is left is to leave you with that Update Set.
