Parent / Child forms or sharing a parent region across child tabs

I want to find a way to have the same region appear on multiple pages.
ApEx has a good master / detail form wizard. And I have used other constructs (master view, report, "add a detail record button", etc) to make the screens more user friendly, less prone to user error, etc.
In the past where there are a small number of these maintenance requirements I have used tabs, select list, menus, etc. to manage the user experience.
I am now faced with an explosion of these types of tasks that require a fairly large dataset to be broken into many smaller maintenacne pages that are accessed by the role of the user. Could be up to 250 of these "master/detail" screens.
I want to avoid 250 copied regions, or 10 regions copied 25 times... I want to have a single instance of a "master summary" region that I can share across several pages. The idea is to have as little redundant code (regions) as possible to ease developement and maintenance.
I haven't figured this out yet and it does not seem anyone else is even looking for this functionality. Am I all alone with this need...
Guess I'll go have a beer... or six.
Any ideas are appreciated and I will buy a beer for anyone who shows up at my sailboat in Santa Cruz on April 20th.
Sam

I thought about that as an option. Create several regions on page 0 that were defaulted to not display and then have them appear as needed. That may be the answer.
My level of sophitication with Apex is good when it is db desing, app design, ui, but I am not a WEB developer and so the finder points of HTML or java are somewhat a mystery to me.
I saw some writeups on htmldb_get as being able to call shared processes or application pages. I know I can redirect to a ApEx url, I wondered if there was a way to call a region as an option.
Thanks for the input,
Sam

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isn't it easier to find a solution without a second form? If you have a second window, then you can navigate and code whatever you want.
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"agorman" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:e2163h$4na$[email protected]..
>I am developing a form-based application. There is one
root form called
> "Application" and a few child forms off the root (e.g.,
Login, CustView).
> I
> would like the sibling forms to be able to pass contol
to each other
> (e.g.,
> after successful login, I want to make Login invisible
and CustView
> visible).
>
> I wanted the root form to control this interaction, but
I'm not sure how
> events in child can be handled in the parent. This is a
common technique,
> but
> in this case, the parent doesn't explicitly instantiate
the child, so I
> can't
> just pass a reference to the parent to the child's
constructor. I can use
> this.parentForm to get a reference to the parent form,
but I can't seem to
> find
> the parent's methods, just it's gui elements (i.e.,
> this.parentForm.parentMethod() doesn't work).
>
> Can some tell me how to do this? I am considering a
FormManager class,
> which
> is a singleton class that each form can registers with
and can use to
> toggle
> the visibility of itself and its siblings, but I wanted
to see if there
> was an
> easier way to access methods on the class instance
associated a parent's
> form.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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