Subtitution of application substitution string only in uppercase?

Dear Apex users,
I am working on a specific template for a company. I would like to use a substitution string for the application name, so that the template need not be adapted for each application.
It works when I create a substitution parameter APP_TITLE and I reference it in the body using &APP_TITLE. The only problem is that I entered a mixed case string and on the page I see an only uppercase string.
Is there a way to use mixed case substitution strings?
Greetings,
Dik

No, lower case is reserved for HTML expressions and the like.
Scott

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Shane,
SubVersion works with files, so everything you do has to be a file, including all of your PL/SQL procs / functions / packages. If you have "cowboy coders" editing packages in the database with SQL Developer or TOAD, that's the first thing that needs to change. I regularly export my APEX apps and check them in. I also make a DDL-only backup of any schemas I'm working on at major mile-stones or before upgrades.
There's a server and client component. The sever houses the repository and everyone checks projects out from and commits projects to the server. On the client-side, the TortoiseSVN client is by far the most popular Windows client. It perfectly integrates with Windows so you can right-click a file and lock, update, commit it.
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I don't have any personal experience with these services, but here are a few reasonably priced ones. The first one has a free option which is where I would start with a test project just to get a feel for it.:
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For what it's worth, the APEX team uses SubVersion, as do many dev teams inside Oracle (not the DB dev team though). Also, the new https://samplecode.oracle.com uses Subversion as part of an offering from CollabNet. My 1st project hosted there is called logger . You can brows the logger subversion repository here: https://logger.samplecode.oracle.com/source/browse/logger/
Links:
- [TortoiseSVN Client|http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/]
- [SubVersion Server|http://subversion.tigris.org/]
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>> I'd like to reference something like ":app_default_date_format" to set date formats in sql statements.
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apex version: 4.2.0.00.27
We encounter an issue when we import an application export. In all the page templates we see that the standard substitution strings in the HEADER and FOOTER area have been added for a second time.
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,p_name => '_vo_One Level Tabs_Simple'
,p_is_popup => false
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'<head>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<title>#TITLE#</title>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_common2.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker-ext.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_show_hide_region.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_desktop_all.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_legacy.js"></script>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/pbh/css/pbh.css" type="text/css" />'||unistr('\000a')||
''||unistr('\000a')||
'#APEX_CSS#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#TEMPLATE_CSS#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#THEME_CSS#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#PAGE_CSS#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#TEMPLATE_JAVASCRIPT#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#APPLICATION_JAVASCRIPT#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#PAGE_JAVASCRIPT#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#HEAD#'||unistr('\000a')||
'</head>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<body #ONLOAD#>#FORM_OPEN#'
,p_box =>
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'<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="t20PageBody" width="100%">'||unistr('\000a')||
'<td width="100%" valign="top" id="t20ContentBody">'||unistr('\000a')||
'<div id="t20BreadCrumbsLeft">#REGION_POSITION_01#</div>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<div id="t20Messages">#GLOBAL_NOTIFICATION##SUCCESS_MESSAGE##NOTIFICATION_MESSAGE##REGION_POSITION_02#</div>'||unistr('\000a')||
'<div id="t20ContentMiddle">#BOX_BODY##R'||
'EGION_POSITION_03##REGION_POSITION_04##REGION_POSITION_05##REGION_POSITION_06#</div>'||unistr('\000a')||
'</td>'||unistr('\000a')||
'</tr>'||unistr('\000a')||
'</table>'
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'#FORM_CLOSE# '||unistr('\000a')||
'#DEVELOPER_TOOLBAR#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#GENERATED_CSS#'||unistr('\000a')||
'#GENERATED_JAVASCRIPT#'||unistr('\000a')||
'</body>'||unistr('\000a')||
'</html>'
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'</table>'
,p_current_tab => '#TAB_LABEL#'
,p_non_current_tab => '#TAB_LABEL#'
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,p_theme_class_id => 1
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,p_grid_always_use_max_columns => false
,p_grid_has_column_span => true
,p_grid_emit_empty_leading_cols => true
,p_grid_emit_empty_trail_cols => false
,p_has_edit_links => true
,p_translate_this_template => 'N'
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RESULT IN APEX for the HEADER
<html lang="&BROWSER_LANGUAGE." xmlns:htmldb="http://htmldb.oracle.com">
<head>
<title>#TITLE#</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_common2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker-ext.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_show_hide_region.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_desktop_all.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_legacy.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/pbh/css/pbh.css" type="text/css" />

#APEX_CSS#
#TEMPLATE_CSS#
#THEME_CSS#
#PAGE_CSS#
#TEMPLATE_JAVASCRIPT#
#APPLICATION_JAVASCRIPT#
#PAGE_JAVASCRIPT#
*#APEXCSS#*_
*#TEMPLATECSS#*_
*#THEMECSS#*_
*#PAGECSS#*_
*#APEXJAVASCRIPT#*_
*#TEMPLATEJAVASCRIPT#*_
*#APPLICATIONJAVASCRIPT#*_
#HEAD#
</head>
<body #ONLOAD#>#FORM_OPEN#
The added substitution strings are bold + underlined.
Is there a parameter (application, export, template, instance level) that we can set to prevent this ?
Edited by: Karel C on 12-feb-2013 5:32
Edited by: Karel C on 12-feb-2013 5:32

Hi Patrick,
The version info is: wwv_flow_api.set_version(p_version_yyyy_mm_dd=>'2009.01.12');
This should be wwv_flow_api.set_version(p_version_yyyy_mm_dd=>'2012.01.01');
... but this error is due to a manual modification of the export file.
We parameterise some values, so that the we can use the old-school DEFINE variables in our deploy process via SQL/plus.
One of the developers made a copy-paste error when doing that ...
So there is no bug !
Thanks for the tip !!
Kind regards,
Karel

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Question: Is there a way that I can do one of the following:
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Subtitution of application substitution string only in uppercase?

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