Best practice building custom navigation menu

Greetings to the community!
Now there are different ways to build a navigation with APEX. 1) the default functionalities, 2) using JS-pugins, maybe others, I dont know of.
3) I have now build one via html generated in a stored function, based on table-data, output with htp.p(functionHTMLMenu); in an pl/sql-region and formatted with css, according to the common html markup: <ul><li><a...>text</a></li>...</ul>. ...nothing special Is this a good practice? - Considering other functionalities that apex may offer?
I have recently read on Ask Tom, that he woudlnt use htp.p nowadays. I have looked around a lot for a description on the different htp-functions: .p, .prn, .anchor... and not really found anything usefull. What really are the differenced? (edit: finally found the right documentation ;) )
Why I dont use the build-in functionalities for navigation? first, I want to style them a bit nicer, and 2nd and more relevant: the generation and selection of the individual navigation items will strongly depend on user access authorisation and will be very flexible.
So, would you build a navigation as descriped above, sending a fat varchar2-string into the page? Or are there more elegant ways, like using page-zero proccesses, app-list-items or the like (which I am not so familiar with as of yet).
Thanks for any advice and tips,
so long,
tobi
Edited by: tpetri on 02.10.2012 10:05

tpetri wrote:
Greetings to the community!
Now there are different ways to build a navigation with APEX. 1) the default functionalities, 2) using JS-pugins, maybe others, I dont know of.
3) I have now build one via html generated in a stored function, based on table-data, output with htp.p(functionHTMLMenu); in an pl/sql-region and formatted with css, according to the common html markup: <ul><li><a...>text</a></li>...</ul>. ...nothing special Is this a good practice? - Considering other functionalities that apex may offer?
I have recently read on Ask Tom, that he woudlnt use htp.p nowadays. I have looked around a lot for a description on the different htp-functions: .p, .prn, .anchor... and not really found anything usefull. What really are the differenced? (edit: finally found the right documentation ;) )
Why I dont use the build-in functionalities for navigation? first, I want to style them a bit nicer, and 2nd and more relevant: the generation and selection of the individual navigation items will strongly depend on user access authorisation and will be very flexible.
So, would you build a navigation as descriped above, sending a fat varchar2-string into the page? Or are there more elegant ways, like using page-zero proccesses, app-list-items or the like (which I am not so familiar with as of yet).
Dynamic lists are the obvious "more elegant way" you're apparently not aware of. Custom list templates enable them to be styled however you want. However you've failed to provide the APEX version you are using, so we don't know if this 4.1 feature is available to you. If not, then a report with a custom template is a close approximation in earlier versions.
Given suitably complex requirements I have no problem with using a PL/SQL region to generate navigation options output using <tt>htp.p</tt>. I think you're safe in that this would be covered by TK's +"...every now and then in a snippet of code in APEX maybe..."+ ;-)
Whether list, report or PL/SQL, also consider if caching the region to improve performance is possible.

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