Viewing Application Reports

Application Builder includes over 100 reports that provide a comprehensive view of your application from various perspectives. You can use application reports to achieve consistency among shared components and page components within your application. For example, you can view details about buttons used on all pages within your application. Additionally, many reports are updatable so you can standardize components, such as item and region labels, without navigating to a specific page.

Topics in this section include:

Accessing Application Reports
Shared Components Reports
Page Components Reports
Activity Reports
Cross Application Reports

Accessing Application Reports

To view reports specific to an application:

Navigate to the Workspace home page.
Click the Application Builder icon.
Select an application.

The Application home page appears.
On the Tasks list, click Application Reports.
Select a type of report to view:
- Shared Components. See "Shared Components Reports".
- Page Components. See "Page Components Reports".
- Activity. "Activity Reports".
- Cross Application. "Cross Application Reports".

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Shared Components Reports

Shared Components reports offer information on common elements that can display on every page within an application. Reports are grouped by the following categories: including Application, Logic, Security, Globalization, Conditional Components, Navigation, User Interface, and Files. Report examples include Developer Comments, Database Object Dependencies, Application Items, Application Computations, Authentication Schemes, Breadcrumb Entries, and Shortcuts.

About the Database Object Dependencies Report

The Database Object Dependencies report identifies database objects referenced by the current application. Review this report to determine what objects to move when deploying an application.

To view the Database Object Dependencies report:

Navigate to the appropriate application.
1. From the Workspace home page, click the Application Builder icon.
2. Select an application.
On the Tasks list, click Application Reports.
Click Shared Components.
Under Application, click Database Object Dependencies.
Click Compute Dependencies.
To view the components that reference a specific database object, select the Reference Count number.

Page Components Reports

Page Components reports offer detailed information on controls and logic that execute when a page is rendered (for example, branches, buttons, computations, items, and regions).

About the Search Region Source Report

Use the Search Region Source report to search through all region source in your application.

To view the Search Region Source report:

Navigate to the Workspace home page.
Click the Application Builder icon.
Select an application.
On the Tasks list, click Application Reports.
Click Page Components.
Under Regions, click Search Source.
To view the Page Definition for a region, select the page number.
To view region attributes for a region, select the region name.

Activity Reports

Activity reports offer details about developer activity within the current application. Available reports are grouped into the following categories: Page Views, Caching, Developer Activity, and Sessions.

Tip:

You can also access the Activity page by clicking the Activity link on the Developer toolbar. See "About the Developer Toolbar".

About the Page Views by Hour Report

To view the Page Views by Hour report:

Navigate to the Workspace home page.
Click the Application Builder icon.
Select an application.
On the Tasks list, click Application Reports.
Click Activity.
Under Page Views, click By Hour.

Cross Application Reports

Cross Application reports offer information that apply to multiple applications. Available reports include Application Attributes, Application Comments, Build Options, Build Status and Application Status, Page Component Counts, Security Profiles, Authentication Schemes, and Template Defaults by Application.

About the Application Comparison Report

Use the Application Comparison report to compare two applications.

To view the Application Comparison report:

Navigate to the Workspace home page.
Click the Application Builder icon.
Select an application.
On the Tasks list, click Application Reports.
Click Cross Application.

The Application Comparison page appears.
In the navigation bar, specify the following:
1. Application 1 - Select the first application to compare.
2. Application 2 - Select the second application to compare.
3. Component - Select the components to include in the report.
4. Page - Identify a specific page number to compare.
5. Show - Select the number of differences to display on each page.
6. Click Go.
To view only differences, select Show Differences Only and click Go.
To view details, select Show Details and click Go.