Global item for all applications in a workspace

Question

Hi All,
Is there a way to set a global item available for all applications in a workspace?

Answer 1

Sabiha,
I know this is a bit late, but here's what I did. This answer spans your question a bit but may be helpful to others.
I have a dev, test, and prod environment so we have difference values depending on the instance. When moving an app from dev to test I don't want to have to modify any substitution strings since that can become a pain and possibilities of someone forgetting something is high.
1- Great a table called global_values, which has a value_name, and value
Let's say you wanted to store an email address: admin_email...
2- Make sure to insert into global_values ('ADMIN_EMAIL, '[email protected]');
3- For each application you have, create an application item called G_ADMIN_EMAIL
4- For each application create a process (on login) called: Set Global Values. In this use the util:
HTMLDB_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE (
p_name => 'G_ADMIN_EMAIL',
p_value => <function to get the global value> );
4(extra): For one application item this is ok, but to make it even better, just create a function that will set all the application items so you don't have to change this in all your applications.
The advantage with all this is that the data is stored in the DB and will help you move from instances without any errors. The disadvantage is that it'll be a slight performance hit since you're calling a function for each user login. You'll also have to add an application_item for each of your applications....
Martin