Open a page within a region on another page?

Question

Hello!
Is it possible to open a page, within a region on another page? Similar to the way frames work? I have links in a column on the left side of a page and nothing on the right side (big white space), so I thought I would try to open up a page in the white space, depending on which link was clicked on the left side.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi - aren't you in danger of overcomplicating this?
If you put your links in an APEX List, you could branch to the different pages (and always have the list of links in a sidebar on the left), so the effect would be similar.
The thing is, you need the pages in order to have the content to pull in, so you're not saving on the work of creating and maintaining the pages, plus you need to fiddle with the template for those pages to remove headings etc. Also, you can get some interesting side-effects if you implement branching on the pages.
It is possible to have an iframe in a region on a page that references another page. For a reason I forget now we implemented this as a dynamic PL/SQL region, a bit like this (purists look away now):
declare
  l_html VARCHAR2(4000);
begin
  l_html := '<table><td><tr>';
  l_html := l_html || '<iframe name="Messages" height="220" width="950" frameborder="0" src="f?p=&APP_ID.:110:&SESSION.:::::" scrolling="auto">
</iframe>';
  l_html := l_html || '</tr></td></table>';
  htp.p(l_html);
end;It wouldn't be hard to make the page number (110 in the above example) dynamic depending on what link or button you clicked.
Another thing you could do is to have a completely dynamic PL/SQL region, using a function that perhaps retrieved a chunk of text from a database table, and then you'd probably want to implement it via Ajax...
Wait, did I say something about not overcomplicating things? I don't know, APEX gets you that way...
John.