Apex users levels. 2 applications or only 1 divided in two?

Question

Hi.
I got 10gXE and apex 2.1 (gotta upgrade it!)
Let me explain what i need to do but don't know how to.
I'm developing a unique app right now all apex users can acces, but later, i gotta divide that applicatioin in two. One group of pages are for managers (access to all pages) and another group of pages for common employees (access to only few pages)
If i develop two applications with different numbers (ex app 401 for managers and 402 for common employees) i should have 2 login pages right? one for each app.
Is there any possibility that, once i log in from a unique login page, that login page takes me to app 401 or app 402 depending if the username belongs to managers or common employees??
Or definetively, i should have two login pages, one for each app?.
I prefer not to do that, i prefer to give the users a unique login page from where they can access the app they are allowed to.
Thanks in advance...
Fernando.

Answer 1

Dear Chrissy...
I'll take a deep look into UsersGuide, but for know, I'll try to make myself clear so you can understand what i want.
The application users are divided in 2 groups, management (M) and common employees (CE). Depending whether an app user belongs to a certain group, he/she should be able to see ONLY the pages allowed for that type of user M or CE.
In the application, pages 1 to 10 are allowed to see and use for CE users, pages 20 to 24 are allowed to see and use for M users. CE are not allowed to see neither use pages of M users, and viceversa. For that purpose, i have 2 groups of Tabs, TAB1 owns pages 1 to 10 and TAB2 20 to 24. so, if you access page 3 for ex, you will only see on tabs, pages 1 to 10. If you access 22, you'll only see pages 20 to 24.
Just like you, i was also thinking on how to branch to different pages depending on authorization, so I modified the Login process at login page to
(remember: tipousmw is the type of user, mw_usuarios is the table where user data is stored -doce, name, email,. type of user - and tipousmw=1 if CE and 2 if M)
declare
q number;
begin
select tipousmw into q
from mw_usuarios
where usernamemw = lower(:P101_USERNAME);
IF q=2
THEN
wwv_flow_custom_auth_std.login(
P_UNAME => :P101_USERNAME,
P_PASSWORD => :P101_PASSWORD,
P_SESSION_ID => v('APP_SESSION'),
P_FLOW_PAGE => :APP_ID||':1'
ELSIF q=1
THEN
wwv_flow_custom_auth_std.login(
P_UNAME => :P101_USERNAME,
P_PASSWORD => :P101_PASSWORD,
P_SESSION_ID => v('APP_SESSION'),
P_FLOW_PAGE => :APP_ID||':20'
END IF;
end;
So it's supposed that if a username belong to CE, he/she will be redirected to page 1, otherwise, if it belongs to M, he/she will be redirected to page 20. And it worked at the beginning, but not later, i dont know if it got something to do with the cookie...
The previous procedure makes sense to me but.. don't know if you can try and tell me what happened.. hope somebody else have tried this so i can have a suggestion or an opinon on howcome it doesn't work properly....
Thanks in advance for your help-.....
Fernando...