Workspace Manager and APEX

I was experimenting with using workspace manager (via DBMS_WM) to version a set of tables. Does everything I want, easily and quickly.
However, when I update versioned objects in APEX, and then look at the HIST table, the user name is APEXPUBLIC_USER.
I understand why this is, but does anyone know of any means of overriding the user saved in the _HIST table, using the APEX user instead.
I had a look at the IOT on the BASE object, but didnt see where it inserts into HIST.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Rob

Hi Robert,
some time ago I created a german how to document on Workspace Manager and APEX - you'll find it here.
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/de/community/apex/tipps/wm/index.html
Be careful - in the following text a "workspace" is not an APEX workspace but a DBMS_WM workspace.
The "_HIST table" is not a table but a view. When version-enabling a table Workspace Manager renames the table, adds columns
for the versioning information and creates some views. The most important view is the view which "replaces" the original table. The
"_HIST" view is another view.
Workspace manager also creates an INSTEAD OF trigger which "catches" the DML done on the view (which now has the name
of the original object). That DML is being enriched with User and timestamp information and then placed into the original table
(which now has another name).
The user information is there because Workspace manager allows to grant privileges on "workspaces" to other users. So you ...
* first version-enable a table
* create a new workspace (CHANGES_1)
* do some DML
* grant access on your workspace to the other user say: HUGO
Now you and HUGO can access the workspace CHANGES_1 and review your DML. All other users can only see the
table status before your changes. So as long as you don't access the version enabled object from different database
schemas (i.e. different parsing schemas) and you don't use the DBMS_WM.GRANT.... procedures you don't have to care
about the APEX_PUBLIC_USER information in the HIST view. You can live with the APEXPUBLIC_USER information.
Does that help ...?
Best regards
-Carsten

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